Our first post in a three part series on 101 ways to motivate, recognise and reward your employees.
“Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans worthy of respect.” – Meghan M. Biro, Your Employees are Engaged … REALLY?, Forbes
1. Set up an employees’ ideas scheme.
2. Reward employees with a two-hour lunch break.
3. Implement a peer to peer recognition scheme in your organisation.
4. Celebrate life events, not just work achievements, such as birthdays, marriages, or moving house.
5. Ask your employees to deputise for you at a meeting you are unable to attend.
6. Talk to your employees about their career aspirations and help them plot out a way to achieve it.
7. Give employees paid time off to volunteer with a local charity, school or community group.
8. Offer employees flexible working as an employee benefit.
9. Learn the names of employees from different departments and use their name when saying hello.
10. Give your employees continuous feedback on how they, the team and the company are doing.
11. If things go wrong, focus on the lessons that can be learned.
“People want to know they matter and they want to be treated as people. That’s the new talent contract.” – Pamela Stroko in Tanveer Naseer’s blog post How Leaders are Creating Engagement in Today’s Workplaces
12. Don’t play the blame game, encourage employees to take risks.
13. Name a workspace or corridor after an employee; you can change them once a quarter, just like artist rooms in art galleries.
14. Create fun games for your employees to relax and get to know each other.
15. Introduce some friendly competition to help employees achieve targets.
16. Ensure employees understand the vision and goals of your organisation.
17. Give employees time off to work on whatever project or problem they like.
18. Ensure your employee benefits scheme includes something for everyone.
19. Reward employees with the best parking space for a month.
20. Involve employees in solving problems.
21. Publicly recognise employees achievements in team meetings.
22. Give employees ways to save money as part of your employee benefits package.
“Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person – not just an employee – are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.” –Anne M. Mulcahy
23. Get the Senior Management Team to run a coffee cart for a day.
24. Use posters and charts to highlight employees’ progress towards goals.
25. Send greetings cards with personal notes to your employees.
26. Whether it’s good news or bad news, tell your employees the truth quickly.
27. Write a short thank you note to your employees.
28. Give employees a free lunch as a reward.
29. Implement a mentoring scheme for all employees, not just the high flyers.
30. Put a symbol of recognition on staff business cards.
31. Allow employees to dress casually for a week as a reward.
32. Implement a ‘Behind the scenes’ award for non-frontline staff that support their colleagues, i.e. for the finance or marketing teams.
33. Ensure employees have access to quality, free tea and coffee.
34. Reward employees with gift vouchers and cards for their favourite shops.
“The way your employees feel is the way your customers will feel. And if your employees don’t feel valued, neither will your customers.” – Sybil F. Stershic, Taking Care of the People Who Matter Most: A Guide to Employee-Customer Care.
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Kuljit Kaur
Kuljit is responsible for business development at The Voucher Shop, a division of p&mm ltd. Your one stop shop for corporate vouchers and gift cards for employee benefits, recognition or rewards.
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