Monday, October 10, 2016

Kiss Recognition – Simplify Your Employee Recognition


What do you think about the recommendation to the International Organization for Standardization to create formal standards on employee engagement?  It was recently accepted BY the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to the OSI and could be approved as early as 2017. Employee recognition will undoubtedly be included in the standards in some way. 

As all the talk of employee engagement swirls around us, just remember that recognition is a very key element and the more complex you make RECOGNITION, the less likely it will remain the simplistic HR practice that is should be.

If you want your employee recognition program to be successful and sustaining here are some very basic simple things to do:

Keep the tenants of the behavioral model in focus: 
  • Tell then what you want them to do
  • Measure their performance
  • Tell them how they did
  • Recognize them for doing it with something that they want 
Oftentimes employee recognition doesn’t need to be any more complex than that.  For a short paper that will give you some great tips and show you some essentials for building the simplest recognition program, please click here.

Oh, and remember the most fundamental thing!


JUST DO IT!  


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