I’ve had two requests from clients from either side of the Atlantic ocean within the last two months, asking me to consult with them in helping their leaders give better and more frequent recognition.
It’s been fascinating to see organizational development folks and other leaders of various functional areas wanting to get their leaders on board with improving recognition.
Employee engagement and customer satisfaction scores were the trigger. These metrics were not the best and each client saw the correlation with their analytics and how a lack of recognition was a contributing cause.
In both companies they interviewed employees and identified ways they were not feeling appreciated and valued for their contributions on the job.
One of the companies went so far as to interview a sample of leaders who were doing well on employee engagement and customer satisfaction metrics.
What were they doing well?
They found great leaders demonstrated caring concern for most of their employees and were actively involved in acknowledging and praising their employees’ on the job.
These successful leaders knew how to make positive connections with their staff. (more…)