How To Use SMS To Remind People To Give Recognition

Do your employees feel valued and appreciated for their work contributions? If not, is it because recognition is not top of mind for your leaders and managers? What if you could remind your leaders and managers to recognize more often? Are there ways that technology can help? 

There is a way to nudge your leaders and managers into giving more frequent and better day-to-day recognition to their direct reports, and others. You can create triggers for your leaders and managers to give more meaningful and consistent recognition to people. This will guarantee affecting the overall employee experience and improve performance, too.  

How do you do this? Listen up!

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How To Represent Your Company Well With Recognition

Make sure you survey your employees on how well recognized they feel. Provide an opportunity for employees to share their perceptions in responses to open-ended questions.

You’ll strike gold when you do this. You gain true insights and examples of what is going right with recognition and what can be improved upon.

Here are some thoughts I had after reviewing one organization’s employee feedback on employees’ recent service anniversary recognition. (more…)

How To Set Up a Points-Based Reward Program

I received this question from a colleague wanting to help a client on how they should set up a points-based reward program.

Some individuals advocate certain ideas as being best practices. Often incentive and reward providers espouse these principles as being absolutely right.

With all this advice out there I will do my best to be objective.  I will provide you with some pros and cons along the way for what you can do. (more…)