Have one of your organizational leaders recently recognized you in person, or publicly, for a specific contribution you made?
It feels pretty good, doesn’t it?
The problem, though, is it doesn’t happen often enough.
Examining some research completed over the years might give us some insights why this is. From there, together we can make some suggestions about what you can do.
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Talking to employees versus talking to your leaders can yield a completely different viewpoint about what everyone thinks about employee recognition.
When Leigh Branham was researching for his book, The 7 Hidden Reasons Employee Leave, he learned that 89 percent of bosses believed their employees quit their jobs because they wanted more money. But when they talked to employees, only 12 percent of them stated they would leave an organization for more money.
Now, what about recognition? How do your senior leaders perceive employee recognition? The answer to this question determines the success or challenges you face with managing employee recognition initiatives in your organization.
That is why if you don’t know your leader’s perception about employee recognition you had better find out soon.
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Some leaders get it and some don’t. There are those who have strong people skills and understand the value of giving recognition well. Then are the others who question the purpose of recognition and the expense associated with it.
How can you guarantee getting leadership support and their personal commitment to making recognition happen?
Think about the following ten steps before heading into a meeting with a leader or your senior leadership team. (more…)
In your role, as a leader or administrator of employee recognition programs and practices, you will often find yourself having to convince, and influence leaders, on recognition programs, budgets, and strategizing recognition.
Human resource leaders, as well as recognition professionals, have not necessarily helped the recognition cause along the way.
For too long, recognition professionals have been relegated to the position of party planners and balloon-blower-uppers, which instilled a negative perception of our role. Senior leaders often see recognition as just trinkets and trash, primarily because of the limited budgets they’ve allocated to recognition, which limits what is available for you to spend. Then there’s the persistent argument, that career milestone recognition is a waste of money because these programs don’t move performance and there’s no ROI from them.
How can you overcome these negative stereotypes? What can you do to convince your senior leaders otherwise? (more…)
What is it about recognition budgets? They seem to get decimated at a blink of an eye.
Too often recognition is one of the first budget lines to be cut. This happens when recognition has not been positioned properly as a strategic tool to engage talent and lift results.
The summer months are a great time for you to begin your preparations for protecting next year’s budget.
There are two phases to protecting your recognition budget – preparation phase and presentation phase.
Follow along to see what you can do today to get things ready for your next budget submission. (more…)