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 […]
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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 […]
5 Most Effective Ways to Motivate Employees
Happy workers mean productive workers. But, how does a company motivate their employees to work hard and be a part of the success of the business? Literally, motivating employees doesn’t need a lot of resources. It can be a simple gesture of saying “hi” to your staff. How To Motivate Your Employees Neither should motivating […]
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 […]
How To Help A Struggling Employee
Mental Health Awareness day is fast approaching. Given that, it bears thinking about your corporate culture and how your firm might be negatively impacting the mental health and well-being of your employees. This is not to say that the job you’re asking your employees to do is literally driving them crazy, but let’s face it, […]
Simple Ways To Make Your Workplace More Fun This Summer
Although summer is still some distance away yet, it’s not to early to start making plans. Everybody loves summertime, and why not? Long days, combined with delightfully warm weather, it’s a recipe for fun. If, of course, you’re not cooped up in the office all day. Unfortunately, that’s exactly where most of us are. Just […]