
It’s time to let you in on a secret I have known for over twenty years.
When I started my business doing consulting and training around recognition practices and programs, I thought I would find all the organizations that had no recognition going on and save the world. It was a poor marketing strategy and no one from those organizations ever hired me.
The interesting thing was it was always organizations that were doing recognition that hired me.
It was always the same trigger that brought me in. Organizational leaders would call up whenever their employee engagement surveys came back and showed low scores for the statements or questions related to employee recognition.
What was the disconnect? Why was it that their employee scores on the recognition questions were so low?
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