The race to keep your star performers is on and the competition is heating up. The national unemployment rate is the lowest it has been in living memory and employees are in the rare position of being able to pick and choose the jobs they want. That means that employers really have to up the […]
Category: Employee Recognition
Don’t forget to recognize your remote employees!
The pandemic has changed the workplace landscape, possibly forever. Even now, many companies have significant percentages of their employees working from home. Some companies are considering or have already decided to make that change permanent. Unfortunately, it’s all too easy to forget that your remote employees are out there. Even where companies have recognition programs, […]
Three Reasons Why Employee Recognition Matters
Many business owners pay lip service to the notion of employee recognition and in fairness, a great many companies already have some kind of employee recognition program in place. There are also a lot of holdouts, however, and given that, it’s worth at least discussing why employee recognition really matters. There are a number of […]
Why Employee Recognition Works Consistently
Employee recognition works because it consistently increases productivity up to 12%, makes employees happier and more engaged, reduces turnover by as much as 60%. In years past, employers took a relatively simplistic view of employee retention. Pay them more and they’ll stay. That works in some instances, but study after study has shown that the […]
May 6th-12th Is National Nurses Week
If your business is in any way connected to the healthcare field, then you probably already know that the week of May 6th is National Nurses Week, an entire week set aside to honor the legions of nurses who work tirelessly on the front lines of our nation’s healthcare system. Even if your business doesn’t […]
Appreciate Your Employees With These Gifts
If you have an employee recognition up and running at your company and you’re looking for some new gift and award ideas to treat your hardest working employees, you’re in for a treat. Even if you don’t have an employee recognition program, you can send gifts to your employees as a one off event. Show […]
Surprise Your Remote Employees With Gifts
Are most of your employees working from home right now? If so, their spirits are probably low due to being locked down. You can change that with a surprise in the form of a small gift to show your appreciation for them and their efforts during these troubling times. If you like the thought, but are struggling […]
Employees Love Employee Recognition Programs — Why You Need One Immediately!
If you’re like many, if not most small business owners, one of the biggest challenges you face is in finding and then keeping your best employees. Small companies face significant challenges in this regard, because they typically don’t have the deep pockets that the major industry players have, which means they often can’t compete directly […]
Leadership During The Covid-19 Era
By this point, most people have reached more or less the same conclusion. In the short run, Covid-19 isn’t going anywhere and it’s certainly not going to go away. Worse, even if the most optimistic vaccine projections are true, the simple truth is that the pandemic is almost certain to have long-lasting effects on how […]
Are Your Remote Employees Being Sufficiently Recognized?
Recent events have radically redrawn the map of most workplaces, with the pandemic sending tens of millions of employees home where they try to get as much work done as they can while they simultaneously contend with school closures, the complete absence of daycare facilities and in a growing number of instances, care for sick […]