You are grateful that your company has these great, online recognition programs, to send important and worthy messages of recognition to people.
Now you can send branded eCards to one another when someone is seen living your corporate values or achieving a strategic priority. You can even send messages of appreciation and recognition via a social newsfeed on your social recognition program. Peers can like these comments about their colleagues and add their own words of commendation and praise. And, your managers, can nominate employees for an award or actually reward them with points for going above and beyond.
That is, as long as employees have an email address, a computer or an electronic device, and can receive notifications from any of the above vehicles of recognition.
But, if many of your employees are offline and have no company email address, and also no electronic device on the job, how do you get frontline supervisors and managers to embrace online recognition programs? (more…)