Recognition.
Management Tips
Ways to Recognize Employees
In his book, Nelson cites 2,300 real-life examples of ways to motivate employees. They include:
- Volunteer to do another person's least desirable work task for a day.
- Wash the employee's car in the parking lot during lunch.
- Name a continuing recognition award after an outstanding employee.
- Write five or more Post-it® notes thanking the person for a job well done and hide them among the work on his or her desk.
- Conduct an Out-to-Dinner program for employees. Award dinners for two for doing something special, like coming in on a day off or working through a break.
- Name a space after an employee and put up a sign ("The Suzy Jones Corridor," for example).
- Develop a Behind-the-Scenes award specifically for those whose actions aren't usually in the limelight.
- Give an employee a month of shoeshines.
- Create a "Good Tries" booklet to recognize those whose innovations didn't achieve their full potential.
- Send the person to a health spa for a day or weekend.
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