Employee Recognition Is Key to Attracting, Retaining, and Keeping the Top Talent

Employee Recognition

marketing planHere are some tips for employee recognition to help motivate your employees to be hard-workers and stay with your business.

Today’s work environment is quite competitive. Leading companies have one thing in common—well-trained and highly skilled workers. A key factor in attracting and retaining such workers is employee recognition.

Employee recognition has the power to motivate workers to do their best. High-performing workers encourage business success.

Companies may see signs that an employee is leaving if they do not appreciate and inspire their staff. One way to do that is through employee recognition.

Even the most qualified employees will show signs of jumping ship if they don’t feel valued. Companies must include employee recognition in their culture to attract and keep top talent.

Understanding Employee Recognition

Employee recognition is acknowledging staff for their excellent performance. Appreciating employees creates a positive work environment.

At the heart of employee recognition is positive feedback. Managers should curate their feedback to include a worker’s strengths. When correctly applied, employee recognition has the potential to make work feel meaningful.

It can also make teams better and stronger. Inspired workers and stronger teams lead to better productivity and business success. The main goal of employee recognition is to encourage behavior that leads to improved performance.

Advantages Employee Recognition

Recognizing employee performance benefits both the business and its staff. Here are some benefits of employee recognition.

Higher Productivity

Employee recognition lets a worker know that they are good at their job. It also allows them to know they are an excellent fit for the role they are in. That makes employees happy. A happy employee is a more productive employee.

Employee recognition boosts employee engagement which then improves their performance at work. A study by Deloitte shows that employee engagement, performance, and productivity in companies with an employee recognition program are 14% higher.

Recognition also boosts organizational loyalty while promoting teamwork, thus enhancing productivity. Appreciated employees are more driven to achieve their goals at work.

Reduced Employee Churn

Employee churn is the percentage of employees that leave a company within a given time. A high employee churn comes with high hiring and firing costs. Thus, it will affect a company’s bottom line.

Incentive programs like employee recognition programs are critical for employee retention. 

Recognizing what employees contribute to the business is an excellent way to boost their morale. If an organization recognizes its employees, it’s less likely to see signs employee is leaving.

Attracting Skilled Workers

Employee recognition can help organizations recruit skilled talent. An organization that takes employee recognition seriously will have happy employees. It will also have a healthy work environment. Both these things serve to attract potential employees to a company.

Creating a Good Company Culture

Employers can create a culture of peer-to-peer recognition through an employee recognition program. A culture of recognition will make a great working environment, boosting productivity.

Employee recognition can also create a culture of self-improvement. Employers can recognize employees for their performance and award them with learning opportunities.

By learning, employees will become better and more productive at their jobs. Management can recognize those who took the time to improve their skills. Doing so will encourage a workplace culture of learning and self-improvement.

How to Carry Out Employee Recognition

Organizations with employee recognition programs may still have employees that feel under-appreciated. That could happen if employee recognition isn’t done right.

Employee recognition doesn’t have to be expensive to make an impact. It can be simple and personal. Some ways to carry out employee recognition include:

Employee Bonus or Treats

There are many ways of recognizing the efforts that employees put into their jobs. An employer could offer bonuses. Bonuses make workers feel like their hard work is paying off. It will encourage them to keep performing well.

A company can also offer treats such as corporate gifts. Gift ideas include T-shirts, pens, bags, mugs, or sweatshirts. The organization could also provide free food, for example, free lunch once in two weeks.

Hold an Employee Recognition Event

Appreciating employees in front of other staff members can improve their self-esteem. It will also encourage them to keep performing well to get recognized. Employers can host an event for the employee of the month. In the event, they should recognize top performers. 

Employers can also hold the event quarterly or yearly. Celebrating significant milestones is also a way to recognize employees. Milestones can be birthdays and work anniversaries.

Other than an event, managers can include a thank you card as they send paychecks. Thank you e-mails also work great.

Employee Recognition Board

Managers can place a recognition board in the office – a creative way of appreciating workers. Employees will add messages to the board to appreciate their top-performing co-workers.

Employees who see their names on the board will be inspired to keep performing well. The board will also encourage employees who aren’t on the board to improve.

Enjoy the Benefits of Employee Recognition

There are many ways to recognize the performance of employees. Employers should find those that work for their staff and implement them. Doing so will form a strong foundation for business success. It will also reduce the likelihood of seeing signs that an employee is leaving.

 

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This article was written by SBMarketingTools.com editorial staff.