Why You Should Reach Out To People To Build Positive Relationships

My purpose for this post is to convince you to make some changes. Strive to build positive relationships on a regular basis with your employees. This is an essential practice to develop in order to improve the value of nonmonetary recognition. 

When you have a positive relationship with your staff, you are creating a foundation on which to build employee recognition, employee engagement, and a complete employee experience. This positive relationship strength between a giver of recognition and the recipient helps to enhance the value of the recognition and show the authenticity of the recognition expressed. 

I’m going to share with you some principles to apply in fostering a more positive relationship with your employees and those you work with. 

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Give The Best Recognition With These P.R.I.M.E. Factors

Each act or expression of recognition can be measured against five criteria, which I call Recognition P.R.I.M.E. Factors.

When you fully understand the importance of these factors you will wisely be able to use them and give more meaningful and memorable recognition.

I am not saying you MUST use all of these factors every time you give recognition. But each type of recognition you use will score differently on a polar spectrum – high or low for example – for each individual factor.

Let’s quickly review each of the PRIME Factors and see how they affect recognition and the impact they can have on people. (more…)