30 Great Tips to Show Appreciation for Your Employees
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Just ask a company with employee loyalty how important morale is to them. When employees start feeling unappreciated they tend to lose interest. Productivity is lost and motivation is hard. Low morale is contagious. A happy and productive workplace is a nice place to come to work everyday. No company is going to be perfect all the time but by showing your appreciation, the dark days will be easier to get through.
Most employers looking to boost employee morale today are taking a creative and cost effective approach. Not every company is able to offer high dollar incentives and are looking for unique ways to show appreciation (without breaking the bank).
Creative Ways to Increase Employee Morale
• Treat employees with respect.
• Call them by name–Remember something personal about them or their family.
• Give up a prime parking spot and give each employee a day/week of convenience.
• Hire a company to come wash your employee’s cars one sunny afternoon.
• Ask for their thoughts.
• Send a thank you card.
• Hire a massage therapist to give each employee a chair massage.
• Set goals and help them get there – reward them for the hard work.
• Acknowledge achievements regularly and publicly with a certificate of appreciation.
• Look for reasons to praise employees.
• Print business cards for every position (this can be done fairly inexpensively online or you can buy a computer program).
• Boost employee morale by calling a mandatory all-staff meeting that sounds pressing and urgent but the only agenda is something fun.
• After the completion of a long project, have employees come in late the next day or bring breakfast for them.
• Introduce everyone as if they were top level management.
• Listen to their ideas, and then use them.
• Listen to employee concerns.
• Post updates on favorite sporting events.
• Take them bowling
• Take staff to do something they may never have tried otherwise.
• Run contests for an extra day off.
• Show that you care about their future and invest in additional training.
• Start a college fund for new parents on your payroll – even a small deposit is a start.
• Start a fund for a charity of their choice.
• Support special occasions in their lives – you can never have enough cheer leaders.
• Remember employee birthdays.
• Start a community service project of their choice.
• Close up shop and take a all office walk– just for fun.
• Stage a fire drill and set up a party while others are outside.
• Place a series of unusual but symbolic objects (representing their hard work) in conspicuous places to make them wonder. Reveal the answer with your thanks.
• Money may not buy lifelong happiness but it sure goes a long way in showing appreciation. Remember cash incentives.
Boosting employee morale is worth every effort. Many ideas can be implemented without much cost and when appropriate, it is always money well spent.
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Posted on: Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 8:07 am 
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