We
are constantly amazed at how far the employee recognition industry has come
from the early days of presenting someone with crystal bowl for 25 years of
continuous service.
And
we at Ultimate Choice are happy it has; we have been able to build a
multi-million dollar enterprise because of it.
But it also amazes us of how complex the entire employee recognition industry has
become. When HR professionals embark on
building an engaged employee culture with reward and recognition as a
component, they can be bombarded with more award ideas and systems than they
can be expected to consider. Does the
research, the training, the in depth communications strategies, the
sophisticated feedback methods all combine to make employee recognition more
multifaceted than it really needs to be?
When
you get right down to it, shouldn’t it just be as easy as saying Thank You?
- Do you thank at least one employee a day on average?
- When was the last time your manager said thanks to you?
- When was the last time senior management said thanks to anyone, not in an email?
- When was the last time you wrote a quick hand-written note to someone for doing a good job?
- When is the last time you received one?
- When you recognize someone do you also tell their supervisor?
- Do you look forward to thanking someone, or do you consider it a chore?
When
you foster a culture of
gratitude, it can be a game changer for sustainably better performance.
Organizations aren’t necessary stingy with saying thanks, the
problem is that employees do something all the time and no one knows about
it. All you need to do is create a
simple process for any individual in any location to feed a suggestion for
recognition of a peer up the management chain, and then have a quick and easy
process to make it happen
Many organizations over-engineer their recognition
programs. Making a genuine connection
with someone who has done something you appreciate is a powerful management
tool. Don’t neglect it…
Just
Say Thanks!
And remember...
"the more personal the thank you
is, the more value it has."
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