Category: Employee Recognition

Employee Recognition Will Never Go Out Of Style

National Employee Appreciation Day is March 4, and it’s always a fantastic opportunity to show your hard-working employees some love and recognition, but the simple truth is that recognition isn’t a one-off.  Why give employee awards & recognition? It’s not something that the most successful companies confine to a fixed point in time and then […]

Do’s and Don’ts of Holiday Gift Ideas for Employees

If you’re in charge of buying holiday gifts for your employees, you may face a seemingly insurmountable problem. You will understandably want those gifts to feel personal, but also something where you don’t have to spend a lot of time buying an individual gift for five, 10, 20 or more people. You will also want […]

Unique and Personalized Gift Ideas for Office Staff

When you’re running a business – or even a single department within a larger company – it’s important to be able to keep employees engaged and reward them for the hard work they put in every day. However, when it comes to choosing the best way to show them how much they’re valued, you may […]

Why Are Employee Engagement Awards Important?

When it comes to creating a positive workplace culture, it all comes down to developing an employee engagement strategy. According to a 2018 Gallup survey, employee engagement has risen to 34% within the U.S. workforce. Although this number doesn’t seem significant, it represents progress over the statistics of recent years. But with almost two-thirds of […]

What Makes A Great Employee Gift?

Do you have an employee recognition program?  If so, you’re certainly not alone.  Studies have repeatedly shown that such programs do wonders for employee morale, which decreases turnover rates and increases productivity, but there’s a catch:  That’s only true if you give gifts that are well-considered and appropriate to the employee you’re recognizing. Nobody appreciates […]

What Makes a Great Employee Gift?

Do you have an employee recognition program?  If so, you’re certainly not alone.  Studies have repeatedly shown that such programs do wonders for employee morale, which decreases turnover rates and increases productivity, but there’s a catch:  That’s only true if you give gifts that are well-considered and appropriate to the employee you’re recognizing. Nobody appreciates […]

Tips To Boost Employee Engagement

If you’ve been paying attention to recent trends, you’ve probably heard the phrase employee engagement more than once.  In days gone by, this wasn’t really much of a concern, or even a though.  You hired employees based on skills you needed, you paid them and they showed up every day to do the work.  Done […]

How And Why You Should Roll Out The Red Carpet To Celebrate Employee Anniversaries

The statistics are grim.  If you’re employees are disengaged and feel un- or under-appreciated, they’re nearly 40% more likely to miss work.  They’re almost fifty percent more likely to cause or be involved in workplace accidents and they cause a staggering sixty percent more office errors than motivated, engaged and satisfied employees do.  Which would […]

Employee Appreciation Should Be Year Round

Sure, Labor Day and Administrative Professionals Day are important holidays and your employees deserve recognition on those occasions, but the reality is that your employees work hard all year long.  If you haven’t yet established some type of recognition program, you should strongly consider it. Study after study has shown that employees respond to recognition […]

Why Celebrating Employee Milestones is Important to Millennials

Millennials are increasingly coming to dominate the workplace, and unlike previous generations, they’re looking for more than just a paycheck. Appealing to Millennials is something that most managers and business owners struggle with, which has predictable but unfortunate effects on the company, most notably in the area of lower retention rates. Since most managers don’t […]