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Employee Appreciation: 25 Brilliant Ways To Show Your Employee Appreciation

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For any company, employees are the most valuable asset. From helping bosses to reach their goals to forming a wonderful environment to work in, it becomes important to give back to them in the form of gifts, kind, or great ideas. This giving back is also termed as Employee Appreciation‘ 

It’s important to appreciate and recognize the employees for a job well done. Recognition makes the employees feel that they are more than just workers, they are an invaluable part of the organization. You’re showing someone that their work matters. A little employee appreciation goes a long way towards boosting the overall morale within the organization.

Employee Appreciation Day: Friday 6 March 2020 in The United States

Employee Appreciation

Employee Appreciation or staff appreciation is a term where the management or the representatives of the management known as Human Resource (HR) takes some steps to ensure and give back to its employees some kind of appreciation to ensure:1. Increased Employee Productivity2. Encourage Employee Participation and3. Motivate and inspire other working employees

Here is a Few Employee Appreciation Ideas You Can Use For Employees:

1. Ensure employee participation in important decision-making

One of the way to make an employee a part of your company is to include them in decisions which affect a major working of your organisation. This in a way will make them feel in power and more responsible towards the organisation.

2. The suggestion box is still a great idea

Sometimes all an employee wants is to be heard. Let your employees speak about an issue or give a suggestion to an ongoing situation in the company. Anonymous ideas or concerns. Heard, discussed, and action taken. It shows them the appreciation by giving them every possible avenue of communication.

3. Surprise them

A sudden half day or surprise treats never hurt anyone! Give employees a ‘happy’ shock to elevate their moods!

4. Time off work.

Let your employees get more than needed time off. If they get off at 7 sometimes ask them to wrap their work by 5 and give them an extra breather to do something else!

5. Encourage Feedback

Part of employee appreciation is helping them grow in their field of choice. It is profitable to both the management and the employee looking for growth to have a valuable ‘talk’ about the work!

6. Make social media your weapon

If an appreciation in front of 5 people can make someone smile, imagine what appreciation in front of 500+ people can do! A simple social media post about someone’s achievement can show how much you care about the employee as well have an indirect PR of your company.

7. Birthday Celebrations

Celebrate the special day of your employee in a place he stays longer than home. You can ensure that he will love this gesture and remember it for a lifetime.

Also Read: How to Improve Employee Engagement

8. Hand-written ‘Thank you’ cards

An e-card is surely tech-savvy but handwritten employee appreciations will never go out of style. A beautifully signed letter would surely light up the mood of your employee and your respect in the eyes of the organisation.

9. Support their dreams

Know someone who is passionate about singing? Take some time to know their singing class schedule or pay some percentage of their classes fees and let them attend their classes and give wings to their dreams. This would ensure gratitude towards the organisation allowing to go an extra mile for you.

10. Suggestion Boxes

Sometimes some employees don’t open up very soon about their needs and wants, a suggestion box helps in letting people put in their inputs anonymously and let them heard!

11. Let Board Games make some way!

The most easiest way to keep your employees fresh and their mind sharp is to introduce some board games in your break room. Let them fight it out with a game of chess or ludo and get them back with a refreshed mind!

12. Flexible Parental Leaves

Management has to understand the fact that the people are more then employees of your organisation. They are some one’s father or mother and thus it should feasible leaves for their children’s activities can be given. This in turn shows how much you value and appreciate your employee.

13. Direct Contact

This technique would be best for startup organisations or someone organisation who uses a startup approach where you should be directly in touch with your team members and communicate your idea. If you are in a much bigger organisation being in direct contact with your immediate juniors can ensure that your juniors take your example and carry it forward.

14. Say it with flowers

Nothing beats by being welcomed on your desk with a bouquet of flowers with complete gratitude.

15. Celebrate company milestones

Did an employee finish one year with you? Gift them something and let them know they are appreciated and wanted in the organisation for a long haul.

16. The Wall of Fame

A wall of staff photos may seem a little old school, but hey. It was popular for a reason. Even if it’s only where your staff can see it (i.e. the break room), it’s a good way for staff to get to know names and faces.

17. Do not miss the anniversaries.

In today’s dynamic world people move around more in their careers. So, do not let an employee’s anniversary go unnoticed. Reward them for staying, because loyalty is a rare thing to find these days. Pay attention to them, so that they feel they’re a valued part of the organization.

18. Take staff out to lunch.

Whether you choose to take your staff out to lunch in to talk about how the job is going, it shows them that they have your ear. Sometimes talking about ideas for work is easier when you’re not sitting in the boss’s office, but across the table over a burger and fries.

19. Public Appreciation.

Show you appreciate your staff by extending it beyond in-house recognition. Let the people know through signage or on social media. Take a photo, talk about how much you appreciate what your staff did, and how they earned this award.

20. Have Trophies for Outstanding performers.

In professional sports, the grand champion trophies travel from one year’s winner to the next. Create a trophy of sorts (an actual trophy, or something more humorous) that is recognized as a symbol of staff appreciation, and pass it around the workplace to staff members who have accomplished something good.

21. Thank you notes are not dead.

An actual piece of paper that tells a staff member that you appreciate them, thanking them for their work, can go a long way in a digital world. Whether it’s as simple as a quick post-it note or an actual card or a certificate on their locker door, try cracking out the age-old practice of thank you notes.

22. Encourage learning.

Whether you help pay for education events or are lenient with time off so that staff can attend education events, show you appreciate them so much that you want them to continue to grow in their career. And, as a staff member increases their qualifications, promote them. Few things are as frustrating as working hard to be the best possible only to have a boss who locks you into a dead-end job. Reward that drive for education and improvement.

23. The Breakroom boss.

What if your staff had the chance to choose the music, a new snack, or suggest one improvement they want to see in the breakroom. Of course, you may not be able to grant every suggestion, but if it is done once in a while as a reward of appreciation, it livens things up a bit.

24. Encourage Mentoring.

Mentoring is a wonderful two-way street. If done right, mentoring programs afford experience to staff a place of importance and authority, and new staff a sense of caring and security. When done correctly and is a cyclical program where the mentored someday become the mentors, it’s a way of showing your staff you trust and appreciate them.

25. Last but not least: Say “thank you”!

When is the last time you simply said thank you?

Some owners take for granted that employees are there to do the work tasked to them, and think that because it is expected, there is no need for a thank you.

A thank you, whether the work is required or not, is such a simple way to show appreciation. You might not think it matters, but there is a noticeable attitude difference between a staff whose boss genuinely thanks them periodically compared to one where the staff never hears it. While not everyone needs a “thank you” to do a good job, many do. It won’t hurt those who don’t need to hear it, but it will mean much to those who do.

Because they say,

A great employee is rare. Hard to find, lucky to have!

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