I heard Dr. Brad Shuck speak at Recognition Professionals Conference this past week in Atlanta, Georgia.
Brad’s presentation was about Driving Real Engagement Through Recognition: Applying the Core Principles of Behavioral Economics to Strategy Implementation. It’s a long mouthful of a presentation title but he had some great and valid principles we can all apply to what we do with employee recognition.
What do you need to do now to prepare for giving recognition better tomorrow?
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RBC Financial Group – Best Practice Award Winner
Do you think your company’s recognition programs could merit winning Recognition Professionals International’s (RPI) Overall Best Practice Award?
I’m going to let you in on a secret of what it takes to win this award.
I have been on the judges’ committee for RPI’s Best Practice Awards for the past 11 years. We’ve seen over 70 organizations submit written nominations to vie for the Overall Best Practice Award. Those companies that submit nominations benefit from receiving the judges’ written feedback on strengths and areas needing improvement, along with quantified scores for each of the standard criteria they’ve been judged on.
Last year I had the opportunity to assist one of our clients, RBC Financial Group, with writing up their nomination form for consideration of the Best Practice Award. I am very pleased to say they actually won the Overall Best Practice Award. Naturally, I had to recuse myself from judging their nomination.
That’s why I know what it takes to be a Best Practice Award winner. (more…)
I want to help you get unstuck about employee recognition. In fact, I want you to think about recognition in a completely different way.
But first I want to give you a quick orientation to the world of employee recognition.
Then I promise you that I will give you that new point of view. Okay? (more…)