Best Ways to Show Employee Appreciation

Everyone enjoys feeling appreciated, especially employees who dedicate the majority of their time working for a company.

If you are a boss or a manager of your company, you most likely understand the importance of recognizing and displaying gratitude to your employees to support the success of your business.

Every company has the overall goal to keep employee turnover at a low rate and a large component of keeping employees working, in the long run, involves routinely presenting forms of gratefulness.

For employee appreciation to be effective, it all starts from the beginning of the hiring process.A job description is more than just a help wanted sign, it is a sales pitch to a possible job seeker to work for a company over the competition.

Think of your job description as to how you would get customers to purchase your product or service but instead, you want top-performing candidates to apply for your position and help grow your business.

Use your job description to bring insight into your company’s culture and how you treat your valuable employees.

Additionally, you have the opportunity to showcase your employee appreciation by featuring your company’s benefits, and perks, and furthering your employee skills with educational development.

There are several ways to show employee appreciation and many companies have their own unique approaches that are ideal for their employees and the production of their business.

Overall, establishing some kind of effective employee appreciation will benefit your company’s morale as well as support your efforts to be a great boss.

We have asked some amazing bosses and managers to share their techniques on how they show their employees appreciation and how well it works for their business.

Allan Borch, a Growth Hacker and Founder of Dotcom Dollar

I own and run a company with about 20 remote employees. Since I don’t have the chance to interact with them on a daily basis, establishing an employee program allows me to show how much I value their work.

The purpose of our employee appreciation program is to publicly acknowledge staff for exemplary performance.

Through the program, we want to reinforce particular practices or activities that result in better performance and positive business results. With this purpose in mind, we were able to create these specific goals.

• Create a positive work environment
• Create a culture of recognition
• Motivate high performance
• Reinforce desired behaviors

Finally, we make our employee recognition program visible by letting people know that they exist.

It’s a part of the onboarding for new employees, and every month team leaders would send reminders to nominate a co-worker whom they think deserves recognition (our criteria is 50% peer rating and 50% manager rating).

Of course, we made some previous adjustments to this program. Having it during our first few months wasn’t easy, but through observations and the collective opinions of everyone, we are able to build an effective appreciation program.

Bottom line: We know that this program gives every employee the reward they deserve since the system is based on their performances and is graded through our detailed KPIs and criteria.

Dotcom Dollar

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