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Are you on board with employee recognition? Perhaps you’re ready to restart recognition after shutting down efforts during the recession. Perhaps you want to start up a strategic employee recognition effort for the first time. But one major concern y... More...

I recently received an email newsletter from Bob Nelson in which he advocates strongly against recognizing people on a quota. His point is: “You can’t manage by a formula. It just doesn’t work. You have to manage from the heart. You have to... More...

Securing executive sponsorship is one of our five tenets for strategic employee recognition, but not one I blog about frequently enough. So this week I’m focusing my blog posts on the importance of executive sponsorship, kicking off with an excel... More...

Judith M. Bardwick, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, recently posted to the Huffington Post the transcript of her interview with literary critic Robert Morris on employee recognition. Judith hits on four... More...

Studies indicate that one of the top workplace motivators for employees is to receive a written letter of recognition from a manager. A personalized letter of recognition reinforces an employees great work, and inspires him or her to continue to ex... More...

In a very interesting article in Human Resources Executive Online , MBA professor Peter Cappelli discusses the change he’s seen in the last 20 years in these high performers and in their answers to the exam question: “Write about your last job, ex... More...

Suppose you are considering an employee recognition program, one that encourages desired behaviors with rewards. Good move, but what kind of rewards are going to generate the excitement needed to launch the program successfully and then keep your emp... More...

If you subscribe to the belief – “My employees get paid for the work they do. That and just having a job in this economy should be appreciation enough.” – then you are training your employees to care less about their work, to want to invest less of t... More...

In this holiday season of expressing our love and appreciation to family and friends through the giving of gifts, I’d like to express my thanks and appreciation for all of those who make my work life fun, enjoyable and truly meaningful. Without my co... More...

One of the most common concerns I hear when talking with large, global organizations about employee recognition is the cultural factor: “People are different ‘over there.’ I’m afraid of offending ‘them’ so we prefer to not implement formal recognitio... More...

Some very interesting research has been coming out in multiple sources recently on the work of behavioral economists, results that Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO of Gallup , summarizes as: “the discovery that human decision making is more emotional... More...

What are the key factors for employee engagement? I and others havewritten at length on this topic. I believe one key factor for employeeengagement is creating an environment in which employees want to engagethrough strategic appreciation of employee... More...

Bnet’s Leila Bulling-Towne regularly offers instructive videos on a range of human resources, sales and marketing topics. A recent “House of Corrections” video on The Power of Recognition offered excellent insights into why recognition is important... More...

Have you ever been asked, “Yes, I see why recognition may be helpful in boosting employee morale, but what’s the value of the program? Where’s the ROI?” An interesting report on The Value and ROI in Employee Recognition , recently issued by The F... More...

Employers need to stay connected to their employees in order to stop them from jumping ship once the job market rebounds. A recent workplace study by the Adecco Group, a global recruitment firm, found that more than half (54%) of employed adults r... More...

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