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Copyright, 2008 Christine Corelli & Associates, Inc. All Rights Reserved www.christinespeaks.com (847) 581-9968 1

SIMPLE WAYS TO REWARD AND

RECOGNIZE EMPLOYEES

AND AVOID JOB-BURNOUT


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SIMPLE WAYS TO REWARD AND RECOGNIZE EMPLOYEES

AND AVOID JOB-BURNOUT

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The following are examples of practices many companies employ in their workplaces to reward and recognize theirvalued employees, and help them to avoid job burnout. While some suggestions may not be appropriate for your

business or fit in with your culture, I encourage you to implement some of these practices. Better yet, create your

own!

For Fun, Team Spirit, Reward, and Recognition

When possible, have a "quick huddle" in the parking lot or on the staircase instead of a boring meeting.

Draw for a $50 bill or gift card at your monthly meeting or play Bingo for a prize.

Have several people phone and stop by, to welcome new employees on their first day. Assign someone to

take them to lunch every day of their first week.

Purchase tickets to sporting, cultural, or entertainment events and go as a group.

Contact a movie theater for group discount tickets.

Prior to busy season, hold an upbeat season kickoff event to get people pumped

up.

Have a post busy-season or project completion celebration event for people to

look forward to.

Educate people about the business so they can understand each others pressures.

Set up barbecue grills in the parking lot and have a cookout. Announce it the day

before.

Take a photograph of the entire organization,enlarge it into a mural and display it on

your wall and your web site.

Send a YOU DONE GOOD note card printed with room for managers to write notes

to employees.

Hold a quarterly luncheon for top performing sales people and employees.

An ACHIEVER AWARD could be a beautifully engraved plaque for each department. The award would

go to the most deserving person. That person would be responsible for passing it on to the next deserving

person three months later. The award takes on great value and prestige because it is passed among peers.


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Set up an ACE program Accountability Creates Excellence . Define

accountability. Define excellence. Those who display these consistently receive

special recognition, gifts, etc.

Have a massage therapist come in once a month and offer 20 minute massages to

those who book appointments. (YES! Companies are doing this.)

Have an ice-cream truck come by and offer free ice cream during the summer

months.

Have the sales department cook for the service reps to show their appreciation, and vice versa.

Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

To Promote Life-Balance, Health, and Help Employees' Personal Lives:

Encourage sports teams or hobby clubs for after work hours or Saturdays.Include

spouses and children.

Organize a walking club or yoga classes.

If possible, have an early-bird shift 6:30 to 3:30 p.m. for parents and early risers.

Offer programs on personal development and family issues How to Keep Your

Heart Happy, How to Raise Children, Managing Your Finances," "Planning for

Retirement," "Caring for Your Elderly Parents," etc.

Be as flexible as possible with doctor and dentist appointments, graduations,etc.

Let your staffgo home early on birthdays. They will love you for it!

Hold an unexpected appreciation party that includes a surprise visit from an employees

family in your cafeteria to honor them for a special achievement or recognition.

Hold family orientation functions. Hold a Bring your

daughter/son/granddaughter/grandson to work day. Make it special for the kids!

Award a half-day offevery two months for a department that meets goals or gets through

a crunch time.

Project Girth: Ten dollars for every pound lost (Keep men and womens programs separate).

Provide safety awards.


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Put a pool table or ping-pong table in your lunchroom.

Arrange a family photo session providing a photographer.

Give a "fringe-benefit" of$100 when a person takes their vacation.

Engage a local auto repair shop to make repairs at a discount.

For young single employees, throw Thursday night pizza and beer parties.

Gather a team to help an employee pack and unpack on their moving day.

What to Remember:

Give employees many different offerings for rewards. Keep them exciting, different and

creative. Create an environment where they never know what to expect next in the area of

spiffs, incentives, and rewards.

To Breed High-Performance and Maintain Morale

Establish core values of honesty, integrity, health, safety, respect, teamwork,

professionalism, environmental stewardship, social consciousness, family, and spirituality.

These values should guide you and your team in all you do. Involve employees in determining how they will

agree to demonstrate these values. Put their words in writing.

Ask your team to accountable not only for their performance, but for the attitude they bring to their job each

day. Involve employees in identifying how and where they will agree to be accountable.

Hold a one hour Skill of the Month training seminar. These can be informal.

Develop a mentor program for new hires, new sales people, and new managers.

Have adifferent person take new hires to lunch each day for the first two weeks. Have employees phone them

to introduce themselves and welcome them.

Get rid oftime cards and tell your employees you trust them. Make them accountable to each other for coming

in and leaving on time. You'll save money too!

Throw away the rule book. Create a simple Code of Conduct.

Involve employees in creating guiding principles on how you will treat customers and team members.

Ask employees for their opinions. People become frustrated if they feel their

opinions dont count. Asking for opinions is motivational in and of itself!


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People tend to promote what they help to create. Assign people to small task-force (problem solving) teams

to come up with ideas to improve communication, teamwork, productivity, and profitability. Reward teams

with the best ideas.

Reward teams with small desirable goods or services, such as gift certificates or movie

certificates.

Communicate praise and appreciation one-on-one. Send personal notes or e-mails.

Let employees know they are a part of your mission. Have your mission statement

printed with their names on it, frame it, and put it on each persons desk.

Honor your secretaries on Secretaries Day. Honor Your Shipping Department,

Accountants, Drivers, etc.

Make people feel special and important. LISTEN to your people, and ASK how they are doing.

Offer small kindness and courtesies.

Keep the lines ofcommunication open. Invite people to talk. Consistently ask questions.

Set realistic expectations when learning new technology

Involve employees in establishing a Code of Conduct,values, how to demonstrate values

and guiding principles on how you will treat customers and each other

Introduce change in small doses whenever possible.

Have one day as "Casual Day" or change to business casual

Decorate your lunch room for the holidays.

Develop an ON-BOARD Program for new hires for their first six months to get them acclimated to your

culture.

Hold a customer appreciation event and include their families. Include your sales team and their families.

Call it A Family Affair

Have your top executive write a monthly letter from the heart, thanking employees for their hard work.

Appoint a Director of Humor to keep people in a happy state of mind.

Hope you found some great ideas.

There are many great ways reward and recognize your employees. Employee motivation involves a great deal

more. It involves your leaders, your systems, procedures, policies, training, and more. Ask this question:

Would you work for YOU?


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About Christine Corelli______________________________________________________________

Christine Corelli is the author of four books including the popular Wake Up

and Smell the Competition and theART of Influencing Customers to

BUY From YOU. To her credit, she has over 200 articles published in

magazines, business journals and trade publications worldwide.

As founder and president of Christine Corelli & Associates, Inc., a Chicagobased firm, Ms. Corelli is a professional speaker, consultant and facilitator

for both national and international companies and professional associations.

Her depth of experience interacting with business leaders and salesprofessionals from a wide variety of industries is the basis for her simple but

definitive philosophy

"Bragging rights are never enough. You can boast all you want about

your quality products and services and your great reputation, but if youwant to outdistance your competitors, you need superior selling skills,

and you need to deliver more value than those who offer similar

products or services. Plus, you must deliver it with flawless service. In

the end, the CUSTOMER will be your final judge and jury. If you're lucky

enough to win them over and you want to keep them, you need a''Sales-Service Excellence Culture' where employees are engaged in

your strategy and fully support your sales team. They all have to be

highly motivated, and think and act as your brand ambassadors.Businesses don't do business. People do. It's the people in your

company who can make the difference."

As a business speaker and facilitator, Christine is known for her high-energy style of firing

hard questions and generating ideas. With hundreds of presentations to her credit, she is a

true veteran of the platform and maintains an active speaking calendar. Her impressive

client list includes major organizations such as Caterpillar, Reynolds Aluminum, Panasonic,

United Van Lines, Xerox, Aamco Transmission Dealers Association, Honda, GE, Chrysler,Harley-Davidson, and the Harvard Business School Alumni Association, the National Retail

Federation, SEMA, Marriott, Bayer, and now Goodyear, and more.

Ms. Corelli's newest book release, Capture Your Competitors'

Customers and KEEP Them is scheduled for 2009. Corelli's Clips,

her e-publication, is read by thousands of business professionals

throughout fifteen countries. To learn more, and to subscribe to this

insightful publication, visit her web site www.christinespeaks.com.

For booking information or to purchase her books contact:

(847) 581-9968

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