Employee Recognition

By Paul Ferguson
HR leaders are looking for ways to improve the overall workplace environment and employee recognition can play a pivotal role in achieving this goal, fostering a positive workplace culture and driving productivity.

By Paul Ferguson
Every day, you do things that help the people around you. What you do day in and day out for your colleagues, your company and your clients makes a difference. The same is true for each and every one of your employees. Even the most self-motivated of us need to feel acknowledged and appreciated. It’s human nature. What does that mean in the workplace, though? What is employee recognition?

By Aspen Christopher
There are a wide range of ways that employees might recognize each other and their efforts. These can take a variety of forms and focus on both work (e.g., appreciation for collaborative team efforts) and personal (e.g., recognizing anniversaries, birthdays, and other life moments) recognition events.

By Michael C. Haas
“The Great Resignation.” “Quiet Quitting.” These are trending topics across a wide range of industries struggling to attract, retain, and engage workers. Organizations are facing a leadership crisis that is affecting corporate culture and the employee journey in a big way. The massive shift to remote and hybrid work has created additional challenges — including employee retention — that companies continue to struggle to overcome.

By Paula Ambrozic
This November, we’re celebrating National Gratitude Month by exploring how gratitude can help us humanize the workplace . What does that mean, exactly? Simply, it means building a culture that recognizes that we are all humans, that work is a huge part of our lives, and that our work experience is often an emotional experience. How we treat one another at work matters — a lot.

By Craig Sukenic
Ignoring employee engagement can be costly. Strong employee engagement is an indicator of employee satisfaction, a healthy organizational culture, and a sustainable business. Let’s dive deeper into the relationship between employee engagement and better business outcomes, and explore how employee recognition can help boost both.

By Lisa Muniz
Savvy business leaders know that engaged employees are productive employees — and that productive employees help to drive business results and desired business outcomes. Unfortunately, engagement isn’t something that’s easy to achieve, or maintain. It’s something that companies of all types and sizes tend to struggle with. Fortunately, there are tools that can help organizations better manage and measure employee engagement, ensuring that they achieve results that align with their business goals.

By Alex McKee
In this post Covid-19 “new normal”, companies are finding employee rewards and recognition programs a key strategy to motivate employees, restore pre-pandemic engagement levels and reduce turnover. Organizations looking for ways to reward employees and drive employee engagement are realizing the need to “go digital” in order to reach their entire workforce (including those working remotely), build community and fulfill modern workers’ needs.

By Kelley Briggs
In the first installment of a two-part series, we will explore how organizations can streamline and consolidate programs for employee rewards and recognition to better support all employees, regardless of where they work. In Part 2, we’ll look at the benefits of consolidating your HR tech stack into one central platform.

By Paula Ambrozic
Subscribe now and receive new articles sent directly to your Inbox.... In Part 1 of this series, we defined the difference between gratitude and thankfulness. We identified gratitude as a basic human requirement — something that, when present, makes us feel good and spurs us to be our best. Since we spend eight hours or more a day in our workplaces, giving and receiving thanks at work, can foster a culture of gratitude that lifts everyone, every day.

By Kelley Briggs
During ‘normal’ times, employees leave their jobs for many reasons, chief among them: they’re burned out, they feel undervalued/underappreciated, they are under-challenged, or feel they are poorly compensated for the work they’re doing. Now layer in the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, where morale is low and there are significant pauses in new hiring; employees are burning the candle at both ends to fill in and burn out.

By Kelley Briggs
Peer-to-peer recognition from peers is a powerful way to build our relationships and tie together that social cohesion that everyone appreciates. Whether employees work from home, or at the company headquarters, they want to feel valued and respected by others around them.

By Patti Traglio
Things change. We have only to look back on the past several months of disruption related to the pandemic to understand how true this is. And, while change is usually not quite so sudden or severe, companies are always being impacted by changes that can make legacy systems no longer as effective as they may initially have been.

By Kelley Briggs
What makes an employee recognition communication plan succeed? What makes one fail? A successful employee recognition program is characterized by widespread adoption, employee engagement, and satisfaction. Conversely, the failure of such a program looks like spotty involvement, lack of buy-in, and lackluster response.

By Kelley Briggs
Recognizing employee contributions and accomplishments won’t only boost the morale of your whole workforce, but it can also help create a more positive and productive work environment that will lift your entire organization. However, in the ever-evolving and increasingly sophisticated business landscape we inhabit today, finding the best way to give your workforce its due can be tricky without the help of an employee recognition platform.