Creative Ideas for Employee Recognition Training
As a business owner or a manager of a business, you want those you hire as supervisors to have a positive effect on employees. Training the supervisors in employee recognition is a great way to ensure that this is happening. A training that teaches the supervisors to approach the staff and acknowledge a job done well done will have a ripple effect on your business and can boost production and loyalty.
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Other Side Of The Coin Exercise
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To break the ice for your training, enlist one employee to go along with this exercise and make sure she tells no one else about it. As soon as the training begins, turn to the employee you picked and reprimand her to the limit that your code of business ethics will allow. After a few minutes of this, let your employees know that this was just a training exercise and that the employee you just ripped into was on board with this presentation. Open the discussion about how each of your employees in attendance felt for this co-worker who was just chastised. For the employees to really appreciate employee recognition, they need to experience the other side of the coin first. Discuss how the feelings that the employees are experiencing will affect the way they work at the company and their dedication to their job. This provides a great introduction into discussing the importance of boosting the morale of employees through positive employee recognition. It also captures the attention of your employee audience.
Role Playing
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Role playing is another creative way to get your staff involved in the employee recognition training. Pick pairs from the employees in attendance and assign one a supervisory role, with the other the person being the one he supervises. Use a scenario that might pop up in your business and have the supervisor role player praise the employee role player. One idea for a scenario is: the supervisor has observed that the employee not only got the assignment in on time, but it was done to perfection. Have the training audience watch and then critique the interaction between the pairs that you have picked. Encourage the audience's input and suggestions on making the employee recognition scenario more meaningful.
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On The Spot Recognition Exercise
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Another creative idea that will keep your employees in laughter is having a time set aside so that the people at the training can practice their "on the spot" employee recognition. Divide your audience into groups of threes. Have the first group get up and walk around the room, stopping and make a positive comment to each of the people still seated in the room. It can be about anything, the color of their tie, new hair style, or even how upright their posture appears while sitting. Each group should get about 10 minutes to randomly walk around the room, stopping by and saying a positive statement to the people seated. This is just used for practice to get your employees acquainted with approaching the people they supervise and saying a few positive words. This is also a great exercise to do early in the training, it works as an ice breaker.
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