subject: Personal recognition for a job well done is important for your workers [print this page] Personal recognition for a job well done is important for your workers
Employee Awards] can be a plethora of diverse things including trophies , certificates, commemorative plaques, medals, badges, pins, or ribbons and personalized gifts to only name a few. An award may carry a monetary worth or it may just carry an emotional worth, like a new title or induction in an elite club or it could be a public acknowledgment of excellence, without any physical token or prize.
Awards like plaques and trophies can be extremely effective motivators, though they can also be rather expensive. You should to capitalize on the effectiveness of the awards by following these steps.
a.) Make a huge deal out of the presentation of the award. Hold an all personnel meeting, lease a banquet hall or at least have the affair catered. The more elaborate the better the effect of giving out an award.
b.) Always give a detailed description of why the recipient won the award, how they went above and beyond what is expected. Explain how other staff members can win an award. You are setting the bar to be achieved so make sure you set it high.
c.) The award itself must always be personalized. The percieved value of an awards is elevated if the recipients name is on it. Keep in mind Dale Carnegie says a persons name is the sweetest utterance in any language.
Stay with the recognition program, keep setting the bar to knew hights. Most employee recognition programs fizzle out after a few months. Stay with the awards program, keep setting the bar higher and higher.
In conclusion, key staff members are hard to find, let alone keep them around for a long time. In no way undervalue the influence of recognition money never hurts either. M.S.
