Maybe you’ve already gone through a budget cut. If not, it might still happen. And then again, if you’re lucky, hopefully you’ll never have to experience one.
Recognition programs, like education and training, and other areas perceived as “soft” things, are easy targets to cut.
How can you handle these budget cutting situations when they happen? What helpful advice can help you?
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If you haven’t already heard, there are fewer companies today than 2 years ago that have a written recognition strategy. Wow! That’s a shame.
According to the latest WorldatWork 2019 Trends in Employee Recognition, only 49 percent of the organizations they surveyed have a written recognition strategy. Fortunately, for the nearly half of these organizations with a recognition strategy, 97 percent are aligned with their organization’s business strategy.
The surprising thing was seeing how the percentage of organizations with a recognition strategy declined from 55 percent in 2017 to 49 percent in 2019. I really thought more organizations would commit to writing one. But, alas, I was wrong.
Why would organizations not have a recognition strategy? Let’s examine some possible reasons why this occurs.
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Allen Saunders, an American writer and journalist first coined the line “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans,” back in a 1957 Reader’s Digest article.
Sometimes this happens to you and I who work in the recognition space. Things will happen at work by people that negatively disrupts the good you are busy planning with your recognition programs and initiatives.
And nothing is worse than when it is a leader who is the disruptor of your recognition programs and plans.
Consider these tactics for handling the inevitable negative, disruptive leader.
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I received this question from a colleague wanting to help a client on how they should set up a points-based reward program.
Some individuals advocate certain ideas as being best practices. Often incentive and reward providers espouse these principles as being absolutely right.
With all this advice out there I will do my best to be objective. I will provide you with some pros and cons along the way for what you can do. (more…)
From your daily administering of various recognition programs, you know exactly when it is time for changes. You’re also aware, from talking to colleagues who manage recognition programs in other companies, that there are often new bells and whistles you could benefit from.
But your biggest challenge can often be convincing your sponsoring leader of the need to evolve the recognition programs if they want to remain current.
I will share some ideas on how you can move things forward and gradually influence a reluctant leader. (more…)
Leaders, managers, and peers alike, can all get confused as to when to use their various recognition programs that they might have online.
This will be a quick guide to assist people with when to give the right kind of recognition according to the programs that you have. (more…)