{"id":4199,"date":"2018-11-29T05:14:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T10:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.successories.com\/blog\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2018-11-29T05:14:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T10:14:59","slug":"three-powerful-employee-recognition-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.successories.com\/blog\/three-powerful-employee-recognition-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Powerful Employee Recognition Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s the simple, unavoidable truth: While just about everyone knows that recognizing employees for their hard work, excellent performance and efforts is a good thing that has a variety of benefits for both your company and the employees you recognize, it\u2019s hard. It takes time. Time you probably don\u2019t have.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, there are strategies you can employ that help make it easier and less time-intensive. If you know you should be doing better on the recognition front but haven\u2019t yet worked out a way to make that happen, read on! We\u2019ll present three simple but effective ideas below:<\/p>\n

Training, Training, Training<\/strong><\/p>\n

The more knowledge and skill a given employee has, the more value they add to your company, but few people like training. It takes away from the work day and dents productivity, which is why few employees flock eagerly to training sessions when they are offered.<\/p>\n

What if you could incentivize training though?<\/p>\n

With today\u2019s technology, you absolutely can! There are a number of modestly-priced eLearning platforms available right now that make learning easy, convenient, fun and engaging. Even better, it\u2019s a trivial matter to tie specific rewards to the completion of specific courses or sets of courses.<\/p>\n

Granted, this type of thing does take some advance-planning and time on the front-end to set up. The good news is, once it\u2019s up and running, it practically runs itself. Even the testing and grading or scoring function can be automated, and each course or set of courses can be tied directly to a specific reward.<\/p>\n

You could even tie your company\u2019s training system into your in-house promotion system, making the completion of a given series of eLearning courses necessary to move up in your organization, thus ensuring that all your top people have all the skills you need them to possess.<\/p>\n

Rewards for completing key training modules could be literally anything: Extra days off, a pay raise, a token of your appreciation in the form of a modestly priced gift \u2013 the sky\u2019s the limit.<\/p>\n

Employee Referrals<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nobody likes to think or talk about turnover rates, but they\u2019re important and finding top-quality talent can be a daunting challenge, not to mention an expensive one. Headhunters and placement firms charge steep fees.<\/p>\n

But what if you could remove those costs from the equation? Instead, what if you started an employee referral program, where your employees, who already know your company\u2019s\u2019 practices, processes, needs and culture refer people they know to you when there\u2019s an open position, then get recognized and rewarded when one of the people they\u2019ve recommended get hired on?<\/p>\n

Studies have shown that this type of recognition program significantly improves moral and reduces turnover rates because it makes the employees you have working together a more tight-knit, cohesive group, and of course, it saves a ton of money too, because you\u2019re not having to pay those expensive headhunters to source the talent you need.<\/p>\n

Again, the rewards here can be anything you can imagine, but most commonly take the form of a direct, fixed-sum payout to the employee who made the recommendation that resulted in a new hire. If you\u2019re not in a position to do that, however, you can opt for a more modest reward instead.<\/p>\n

And Finally \u2013 Customer Feedback<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve saved this one for last because it\u2019s quite possibly the easiest and most powerful of our three recognition strategies to implement.<\/p>\n

No matter what kind of business you\u2019re in, you hear from your customers, probably on a regular basis. Of course, there are things you can do to make it easier for them to contact you and leave feedback, and you should definitely be encouraging more of that.<\/p>\n

Among the simplest ways to facilitate customer feedback are:<\/p>\n