A recent Gallup survey showed less than half of employees feel strongly that their employers care about their wellbeing. And according to research from Slack with remote employees across five countries, only a sense of belonging was much worse than before the pandemic. Follow these unique ways to create a better sense of belonging with your work-from-home employees.
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While many companies have moved to a work from home way of life for the immediate future, we still have companies that are proceeding with business. These helpful actions are a good way to keep your employees healthy and your business running strong during a health crisis, no matter where they are working from.
Trying to accept this new “normal” is difficult. However, businesses that have a strategy, keep the lines of communication open, and understand the ever-changing impacts of positive actions, will weather this storm.
Recognition Reflection: What special steps are you taking for dealing with the COVID-19 virus and helping your employees?
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Is showing care and concern for our fellow employees an act of recognition or something completely different?
From my point of view, I have defined recognition as mostly an intangible expression of acknowledgement and valuing of an individual or team, for their positive behaviours, their personal effort, or contributions they have made.
By this definition, recognition occurs because:
(1) Some positive action or specific positive behaviors have occurred by an employee on the job.
(2) You feel their actions merit you acknowledging and valuing them for who they are or what they do.
(3) And, unlike rewards, you are not expecting the employee to do something in return just because you’ve recognized them.
So now, in response to a recent question asked of me, do you give recognition to people because they’ve experienced a positive life event or perhaps they’ve had some serious challenges?
Let’s examine this carefully.
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Last Thursday, I was standing at the boarding gate in Toronto Airport waiting to board my WestJet flight to Calgary.
I saw this man in a suit, who went around and shook hands with all of the WestJet staff members as he went forward to board the same flight. I even saw one employee ask for a minute of his time as they walked together down the passenger boarding bridge.
Hmm? Was this the WestJet president and CEO, Ed Sims? (more…)
Here’s a fact: employees who feel more caring concern and love from their employer and colleagues perform better on the job. Now we’re not talking about romantic love here. This is all about respect, concern, and compassion, or what is being called companionate love.
Do you have policies and practices that promote compassion, caring, and concern, in time of need?
Consider what former Cisco CEO, John Chambers, expected from his staff. He wanted to be notified within 48 hours whenever a close family member of an employee passed away so he could make an appropriate response and action.
What do you do to show care and concern for your employees? (more…)
It is an interesting situation around showing people you have concern and care for them.
How and when do you typically show caring towards fellow employees?
I think there is a human tendency to want to provide for people and protect them whenever they’re going through a hard time.
But what about the good things that happen to employees? Do you say anything? (more…)
Too often we see people and ask the question, “How are you?” without really stopping to listen to the response.
You must learn to ask the question, “How are you?” and not only listen for what people say, but also watch for how they say it and the non-verbal cues of their real feelings.
Follow along and learn how to show care and empathy to employees so that they are more likely to believe the genuineness of your expressed recognition and appreciation. (more…)