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On The Job Training: How To Say, “Keep Up The Good Work!”
Don’t wait until the holidays or retirement offers you the occasion, take the time to recognize your employees’ diligent work ethic today! Whether you’re a corporate CEO or a small business entrepreneur with a staff of three, showing day to day employee appreciation will be worth your time and effort: such recognition serves to reinforce employee accountability as well as enhance work-place motivation overall. Here are some surefire methods for both showing your employees that you appreciate their hard work and improving work-place motivation:1) Reinforce Employee Recognition with a Gift Basket
Gift baskets are one of the most convenient ways to show your employees how much you appreciate their hard work. With the variety of gift baskets available online, selecting and sending the right gift basket to an employee can be a real time saver for you, but also very meaningful to the recipient. Many businesses reward their employees with regular fruit basket deliveries; such baskets can be arranged for monthly or quarterly delivery, which provides employees with a habitual reinforcement of your appreciation. Likewise, a well-timed wine and cheese basket can go a long way to tell a staff member or partner to “keep up the good work!”
2) Offer Health Club Memberships to Your Employees
A productive work place is dependent upon happy, healthy employees. Daily exercise not only provides great stress release, but also boosts the immune system. In providing your employees with health club memberships, you will not only be increasing their on the job satisfaction and productivity, but also reducing the number of employee sick days your business must pay for each month.
3) Develop an “Employee of the Month” Program
For the most effective Employee of the Month Program, let employees and managers work together to choose the mensal recipient. Such a work-place-hierarchy transcending system will prevent the Employee of the Month Program from becoming a mark of favoritism, or ridicule, and will also add a sense social pressure for high employee performance. Such collaboration will also help reinforce a teamwork environment around the office. That is, employees often recognize their colleagues’ efforts, or lack thereof, in the workplace and are eager to commend someone who is really pulling his or her own. Such a program lets the employees know that not only higher-ups, but also their colleagues, see and appreciate their hard work. Display the recognition prominently in the workplace, but also offer the recipient a certificate or plaque that can be taken home.
Put some of these ideas into practice today and you will recognize a positive change in the workplace!