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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Primary Objectives of Gift Card Award Programs

The “2016 Gift Card IQ” research conducted by Incentive magazine was recently released.  Following are the results to the question of “What are your primary objectives for using gift cards? 

Following is a recap of that research and a comparison of those same questions to 2015.

Answers	2016	2015
Boost Morale	65.7%	61.7%
Improve Performance	47.6%	56.0%
Build Employee Trust/Loyalty	44.8%	42.9%
Increase or Maintain Sales	33.6%	34.9%
Foster Teamwork	31.5%	23.4%
Build Customer Loyalty	30.1%	26.3%
Improve Customer Service	23.8%	28.6%
Start or Maintain Business Relationships	16.8%	20.6%
Improve Safety	9.8%	12.0%
Create New Markets	9.1%	6.3%
Improve Employee Health	8.4%	10.3%
Other	7.0%	4.0%

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 Here's just a few of the over 500 gift card brands that we use in our systems.

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Gift Cards Compared to Cash

Every year Incentive magazine conducts their “Gift Card IQ” research.  One of the questions surveyed was how effective gift cards are compared to cash.

Following is a recap of that research and a comparison of those same questions to 2015.

Question	2016	2015
Gift Cards are More Effective than Cash	40.6%	33.9%
Gift Cards are Equally Effective as Cash	34.3%	40.3%
Gift Cards are Less Effective than Cash	9.8%	3.4%
Do Not Use Cash Rewards	15.3%	22.4%

There was a time, not so long ago that cash was considered king in the recognition and employee engagement field.  Today it is almost non-existent.

Here's just a few of the over 500 gift card brands that we use in our systems:

If you are sourcing your gifts cards and want to view a gift card system that has $ for $ pricing with NO FEE and allows your participant to redeem for over 500 of the most popular brands of gift cards in the country, Ultimate Choice could be the answer.

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On The Spot Employee Recognition

There is no question that employee recognition is important for your company’s long term success.  This is emphasized in study after study in employee engagement strategies. 

It is a puzzle why there are still many companies that just don’t recognize employees as well as they should, or at all!

Do your front line and middle managers recognize and thank employees often, sometimes, not at all? Are you making it easy for them to do just that?

According to SHRM Resource Management:

 “Spot awards—given immediately upon witnessing outstanding employee performance—are a powerful motivator for desired behavior, just as predicted by the classic operant conditioning model.”

Our On the Spot card was developed for just that situation.  It is extremely easy to use, cost effective and is guaranteed to give your employees the recognition award they really want.

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