How to Recognize Employee Successes
Keeping your staff motivated and on task takes more than wishful thinking. Setting up a plan for employee recognition is one step toward making your workplace a more productive one. By instituting a well-planned and monitored success-recognition program, you will reinforce the positive work behaviors your company is seeking in its staff.
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Celebrate Your Employee's Job Successes
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Establish the criteria on which you will recognize your employees' successes. Most successful programs will be inclusive of all staff and should provide specific requirements for eligibility that are well outlined for both staff and management. The kind of success that is expected for the reward should be clearly understood by all.
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Put your money where your mouth is. Among the most successful ways to recognize employee excellence is a bonus or monetary reward. Whether it is negotiated based on the amount of revenue generated by work or related to the completion of a specified expectation, a monetary bonus helps to increase employee morale as well as retention.
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Make your reward act as a team-building event by organizing a lunch or other event to which an entire department is invited. These kinds of rewards are best given at random intervals, so that they are not taken for granted by your staff.
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Include your company's brand with your employee recognition by giving out merchandise with your company's logo on it.
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Make it mean something. Just as a gold watch, given to an employee for many years of dedicated service, may become a goal to which many aspire, your logo-gear reward system should offer prizes that are highly sought after, such as high-tech electronics or luxury brands.
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Recognize an individual employee's successes with a hand-written note reinforcing why the employee is being recognized. This note could then be used as a "lottery ticket" to allow the employee to enter a drawing for various prizes, from gift certificates to pricey items like vacations.
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Tips & Warnings
Make your reward system as transparent as possible, so that all involved understand what is expected and how award recipients are chosen.
Avoid recognition schemes that delay the benefit of successful performance, such as employee-of-the-month schemes. While this recognition may seem like a good idea, it may actually be written off by your staff as a system for rewarding favorites or something that will eventually be rewarded to everyone regardless of performance.
