Employees are the heart and soul of any business. Most companies and employers are aware of the facto of maintaining stable and honest communication between employees means having a productive and lucrative outcome. Thus, satisfied and motivated employees will contribute so much more to the business. It’s the employer’s job to keep them uplifted and engaged the whole time in order to boost their productivity and, of course, keep them happy. Showing your employees that you appreciate and care for them should become the company’s policy as it can only make the business grow. Employee recognition doesn’t have to be a tangible matter, as there are so many ways you can do that. Here are some of the most effective ways to help show your employees they utterly value you and your business.
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1. Host a “thank you” meeting
People cannot subconsciously know that you are thankful for the job well done. Let your employees know you are grateful for what they are doing in-person and in front of the whole staff. Very often a verbal appreciation is valued so much more than plain materialistic. Call up a meeting and simply say thanks to what he/she has done and merely talk about good work. Praise is always welcomed and makes it a great office inspiration tool.
If your business is active on social media, that would be a great way to show respect and employee recognition. Nowadays, a lot of people spend endless hours on social media platforms, and if you were to let customers know how you actively appraise your employees that would be a sleek marketing tool as well. Take a photo with employees, write the positive things they have done, go live and talk about how much you appreciate what your staff has done, and/or record the award they have earned, etc.
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3. Celebrate the birthday with style
A birthday thank-you note is so old-fashioned. If you truly want your employees to know you value their great achievement, then try to celebrate their birthday as they deserve. Organise a small party, order muffins rather than a cake, get drinks, and have a nice chat. You could gather money altogether to buy a nice present such as a wine bottle of wine or something more personal. You could commemorate every memorable date, and even send out nice anniversary gifts to show that you remember the date they arrived at the office.
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4. Rewards great achievement
Strive to reward your management and the team with every successful milestone and any accomplishment they have done together. Sometimes it’s crucial that team effort is appreciated for a productive endeavor. Rewards could be in form of “teamwork”. Organize and pay for lunch with the management, hand out shopping vouchers, movie tickets, or organize a short weekend trip to a spa resort or winery.
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5. Send an instant bonus
Every time someone reaches a designated goal does something admirable or pushes really hard to complete a task, do your best to show appreciation immediately with words of pay and by sending an instant bonus. Monetary bonuses have always represented a great way to encourage collaboration and teamwork, plus in this way, employees would know that their work is paying off. If you were to make a habit to send spot bonuses, your employees would be utterly motivated to make things perfect and effective.
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6. Create an employee recognition wall
Whether you wish to have an “employee of the week/month” wall, any type of recognition wall will boost productivity and creativity among employees. Create a sprucing board in the office glue employees’ names or pictures and let everyone post ideas, add sticky notes next to the person to say praise, or write a congratulatory message to exemplary coworkers. This would give them a clear insight that all other employees, besides the CEO, care and appreciate your deeds in the company.
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7. Designate a special day off
All people absolutely desire to have a day off that’s not a weekend or holiday. If you truly want to show them you appreciate what they have done for the company, treat them by offering them one day in the week to say home. Let them choose the day, but if there’s a lot of things to be done for that day, suggest they work from home.
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8. Organise a fun day out
Employees spend roughly 8 hours in an office in front of a flashing screen. If they have been utterly productive and if the results and revenue have skyrocketed, you can reward them by treating them with an experience. Organize a fun trip out of the office. You could go parachuting, mountaineering, or take on some fun team-building activity like rafting. Being out in the fresh air is always a powerful adventure that will certainly be memorable for the whole employees.
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9. Treat them with a wellness program
Office work can be stressful, making tight deadlines apprehensive, and delegating various work-related responsibilities intense. To beat the stress of constant workload, you can treat your employee with a reviving wellness getaway. All employees deserve to be rewarded even if there wasn’t some special endeavor because they are the foundation of the business. Make the wellness package include all the amenities and perks – sauna, massage, cocktails.
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10. Strive to provide positive feedback
One of the most effective ways to boost morale and show how much you appreciate your employee and all the effort they put into the business is to give feedback. However, merely a thank you can be enough from time to time, but if you want to motivate them even more, strive to give positive feedback. With constructive and honest praise and feedback, you would even make a connection with your employees which can equally contribute to enhancing performance.
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11. Express interest in their professional development and offer training
When you notice that your employee is pushing hard and if that is bringing results, the best way to show appreciation is to express interest in your employee’s professional development and offer advancement. Search and offer to pay the professional training course, or send them to professional development seminar, host more productive workshops, etc. Once you show your employees that they value you and support them in what they are trying to achieve, you would have a more lucrative outcome in the future.
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12. Distribute workspace gifts
If you are looking for an innovative, but equally effective way to show employee recognition, you could hand out useful and imaginative workspace gifts. No matter if these types of presents are somehow low-key, they can certainly put a smile on an employee’s face. Plus, they would most probably put the present either on the desk or nearby, so the item would serve as a constant daily remember of how much you appreciate them.
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13. Introduce “boss for a day” reward
To some people this may not sound like something valuable, however, if you were to rewards staff with a chance to be “boss” for a day, they could have an abundance of advantages. For instance, they could sit in your office and chair, use their parking spot, delegate work to other personnel, and have a chance to suggest various new and fresh ideas directly to the board. Above all, it gives your staff a taste of what it’s like to be on the top.
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14. Go on a mutual lunch
The staff loves to have a sense of belonging to the community, and what a better way to show you appreciate them than by going on a mutual lunch every once and a while. Take your staff out to lunch in groups, or individually if you wish to praise a special employee. This is a more laid-back type of meeting, and when you are not sitting in the boss’s office, it becomes easier and more stress-free to recommend some new ideas.
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15. Incorporate points reward system
A points system is very good to enhance employees’ productivity and motivation. If you strive to enhance staff engagement, try to develop a points system for a reward program. This would include that every employee receives points every time they exceed their work and do something above their jurisdiction. After accumulating a certain amount, all staff can redeem their points for gifts. This is a very good option as the system would be equal for everyone in the office, from the doorman to the managers.
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16. Give rewards that can directly implement their career
Most employees simply have a desire to move forward in their line of work. A sign of appreciation that can benefit both the employees and the business is career-based rewards. In order to show appraisal, you would send them to leadership training programs, let them be in charge of vital duty, or let them choose a special advancement class to attend, like a free language course.
Even petite signs of the appraisal can make huge changes in the employees’ behavior. Always bear in mind that all employees are utterly vital for the success of the firm, and treating them with respect and showing appreciation is only a small deed you can make.
