Managers are smart and observant people. When recognized properly, they know exactly what happens to themselves as well as their staff.
They’ve witnessed it time and time again.
See if you haven’t seen the same kinds of benefits listed below from recognizing people where you work.
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If you’ve been running recognition programs and initiatives for a while, you have likely encountered the inquisitive, cynical, or perhaps challenging leader who throws down the ROI gauntlet for you to “prove” recognition is contributing to the bottom line.
My recommendation is to be careful about jumping too quickly or focusing solely on the money-sided ROI. Make sure you examine both below and above the bottom line to more easily convert recognition into an investment versus an expense.
Yes, there is a lot more to ROI than meets the eye, which is why we will examine ROI to the power of three. It’s much more than being financial.
You need to look at other returns that can come from recognition. (more…)
Vineet Nayar, an Indian business executive, author and philanthropist, and former Chief Executive Officer of HCL Technologies, authored a critically acclaimed management book a little while back titled “Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down”.
My colleague and friend, S. Max Brown, had the opportunity to interview Vineet Nayar in Delhi, India for our former Internet radio show, Real Recognition Radio.
HCL Technologies has over 65,000 global employees in 26 different countries in the technology services industry.
Under Vineet’s leadership and vision, HCL changed from a workplace with high attrition and low attraction to being named the Number One Best Employer in India and Best Employer in both Asia and the United Kingdom.
How did recognition and appreciation in the workplace happen because of Vineet’s transformational thinking?
I’ll share some insights I gleaned from the interview. (more…)
Many leaders are unaware of how valued or recognized their employees are feeling right now. It’s not always a pretty picture.
The Gallup group suggest only a third of employees they survey through all their client companies actually receive recognition or praise for doing good work on the job in any given week.
I am going to share 3 simple ways you can use to find out how well recognized your employees feel, today!
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