Recognition Programs

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No recognition hinders employees' productivity

Not all employees like to be recognized in the same way. Make sure your employee recognition program allows for a variety of award avenues.

Prioritize employee recognition and start by treating others as you want to be treated.

Warm and Fuzzy Recognition Story

A social recognition program helps managers learn from their employees and encourage positive behavior. Engage and motivate your staff to accomplish goals by utilizing social recognition in your employee recognition program.

Looking to increase employee engagement? Even the best employee recognition programs don't always succeed on their own...make sure you are leading by example and be sure to champion your own program!

Six Steps to Attract and Retain the Best with Social Recognition Programs

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If you haven’t started to plan your employee recognition program for 2012, now is the time to get started. In the past if you focused exclusively on service award programs, or recognition programs that reward employees who have reached milestone anniversaries, I would like you to consider changing your approach to recognition by looking at the effectiveness of peer to peer recognition programs.

Find out what the top ten reasons to give thanks and recognition awards are along with a solution to make it easy to recognize employees for any reason.

This top ten list of reasons to say thank you with a recognition award is derived from Awards Network clients with employee recognition programs.

WorldatWork.org recently published a paper on trends of employee recognition programs and this blog highlights the research in this paper.

Four examples of recognition and incentive programs that have been discussed on television, online and in print.

Learn how to make recognition a special event instead of an entitlement.

Read research from the end of 2010 and how employee recognition will be vital to improving employee retention in 2011.

Planning, executing and providing recognition consistently is important to effectively recognize call center employees.

Five recognition ideas that are outside of traditional employee recognition programs are shared in this post along with tips for each idea.

Find out how you can plan a service award program for 2011 that will appeal to Generation X and Y employees in an effort to increase employee retention and loyalty.

Each of the new resources in the downloadable samples library is discussed including the recognition letters, incentive program budget and more!

Following award theme best practices ensures your recognition or incentive program is fun and increases participation and the success of your program.

Read recognition, incentive and safety themes ideas that make a reward program fun to participate in and can pique participant's interest.

Three traits of a recognition program that boosts employee performance and therefore customer retention and how you can apply them for long term success.

Incentive programs can focus on a variety of recognition goals and allow all participants to earn rewards for reaching company-wide objectives.

Safety recognition programs can deliver high ROI when they are properly designed and goals are consistently communicated throughout the program.

Volunteer award programs can deliver high ROI when they are properly designed and goals are consistently communicated throughout the program.

Recognition ideas that can be utilized to recognize the loyalty and hard work demonstrated by administrative professionals.

Four basic types of employee recognition events are defined and explained to assist organizations trying to plan the right mix of recognition options.

Healthcare recognition programs can deliver high ROI when they are properly designed and goals are consistently communicated throughout the program.

Five specific techniques that companies can utilize to maximize participation in peer recognition award programs.

Total Reward Programs, while incentive-based, also allow for a variety of employee recognition needs.

Recognition programs can boost motivation, increase engagement and cultivate loyalty among workers in call center environments.

Organizations need to establish strategic employee recognition programs to reward and recognize high performing employees and increase employee loyalty.

Healthcare employers are turning to recognition and incentive award programs in order to turn the tide of low employee engagement and loyalty.

There are many ways that nonprofit organizations can utilize recognition and incentive award programs while remaining within a tight budget.

Learn what information you should gather from employees to develop a successful recognition or incentive program.

State of the art recognition and incentive programs entice reward program participation and provide participants with an outlet for recognizing co-workers.

The top ten most popular blog posts in the Awards Network blog history.

One of the best ways to improve employee engagement at a law firm is by recognizing and rewarding employees with a recognition program.

Recognizing the contributions of individual sales professionals and sales teams is one of the most effective ways to create employee engagement.

Green ideas applied to the employee recognition and incentive programs decrease an award program’s environmental impact.

Planning an end of year recognition awards program can be more challenging this year due to lower budgets and fewer workers.

Incentive Programs can work to improve the value employees and add to employer’s bottom line in many ways.

Tips on how to teach recognition from the top down and how each tip can be applied to an employee recognition program. (Second 5 of 10 tips)

Tips on how to teach recognition from the top down and how each tip can be applied to an employee recognition program. (First 5 of 10 tips)

Award programs targeting manufacturing industry-specific goals used to overcome challenges and help companies create or sustain a competitive advantage.

Award programs tailored to healthcare industry-specific goals and used to overcome challenges and help companies create or sustain a competitive advantage.

Attracting and retaining employees can be achieved by providing staff members with consistent recognition and motivational corporate gifts.