By attending a few of my one grandson’s North American football games, I have witnessed the occasional fumbling of the ball by some overly enthusiastic youth.
This reminds me of the clumsily carried out attempts at giving recognition by organizational leaders. You may have seen some of these awkward recognition plays that never touched down.
Look at how you can best help leaders not to fumble recognition practically or strategically.
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Your leadership team, and whoever your direct executive sponsor is, can really impact the success of your recognition programs.
For example, nearly one-quarter of respondents on a Gallup survey said the most memorable recognition comes from a high-level leader or CEO. Imagine what leaders could do if they encouraged everyone to get on board with using their organization’s recognition programs.
In a survey I conducted across the United States and Canada of managers in the public sector, they shared how participation of senior leaders was an important aspect of delivering effective employee recognition.
Examine your own organization and evaluate how leadership involvement with employee recognition plays out.
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Leaders play an important role as recognition givers throughout the entire organization.
However, not all leaders realize the impact they have on people through the simple act of expressing appreciation to people and recognizing their employees’ contributions.
Someone asked me to write how they could better convince their leaders that giving recognition was easy to do.
Explore the following suggestions to make recognition a leadership priority.
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