HOW TO DEVELOP STAFF REWARD AND RECOGNITION PROGRAMS THAT EMPLOYEES WILL APPRECIATE
Regina Munroe
I help businesses enhance brand visibility with high-quality promotional products. From corporate gifts to trade show giveaways, I deliver solutions that excite, delight, and connect employees and customers
You have incentive programs for your employees. Your company has invested thousands of dollars for those great incentive travel and office competitions. We know intuitively that every individual is motivated by different rewards, so why do employee rewards programs always seem to get an eye-roll from employees? Employee rewards just don’t connect with enough people to be meaningful and don’t seem to drum up much interest.
The problem really lies with the structure of these standard employee incentive programs—not the content of the rewards. For employees to really buy into a program, you have to build a rewards system based on differentiated goals, meaningful metrics, and guaranteed social currency. Here’s how that plays out in real time.