Employee Recognition


Recent Employee Recognition Articles

5 Ways to Reward Your All-Star Employees

There's no such thing as too much employee recognition. Learn five ways to reward your team.  Read more

The 9 Circles of Customer Service Hell

Your customers are the cornerstone of your success. So why on earth are you torturing them?  Read more

3 Steps to Winning over Your Employees

Be a little vulnerable, show a little interest in your employees' lives and listen to what they think. It's basic, human stuff. Which is the whole point.  Read more

Don't Let Employee Feedback Depress You

How to make the most of negative suggestions your staffers make, and improve your company.  Read more

5 Ways to Build a Resilient Company

The best companies are those that can bounce back from failure. Here's what it takes to do it well.  Read more

Your Best ROI Measure? Employee Loyalty

Decrease the likelihood your employees will leave, save money onboarding, and increase profitability--and receive notes like the one I got from Brian Johnson.  Read more

Anyone in Your Company Can Have a Great Idea – Harness It!

Your "on the street" employees can be an important resource for business-building ideas.  Read more

Chip Conley: The 5 Things Everyone Wants From You

Joie de Vivre Hotels’ founder explains how your customers, your employees, and even your investors have the same five needs. Deliver on them and you can’...  Read more

How to Tap Employee Ideas

Encouraging your employees' creativity can not only create an engaging work environment, but create new business. Seven experts share their tips on getting e...  Read more

Editor's Letter: A Salute to the Builders of Great Companies

Here’s to the people who create jobs, and to the people who fill them.  Read more

A Celebration of Inc. 500 Workers

A business is only as good as its people�"and that’s especially true for lean, fast-growing companies. Here's a look at seven dedicated workers from this...  View slideshow

How Do You Know When Employees Need to Get Out of the Box?

Figuring out whether or not an employee will thrive if let "out of the box" is not always easy to do. Here are some pointers.  Read more

How to Reward Great Ideas

Your employees may never say no to a bonus, but that doesn't mean it's the ideal way to credit their work. Examples from Foursquare and other innovative comp...  Read more

Deliver Value to Your Employees—Your Most Important Stakeholders

Beryl Companies CEO Paul Spiegelman explains how to get employees to show up for work with passion, productivity, and focus--and increase profits.  Read more

Rethinking Employee Awards

I Love Rewards and other businesses find ways to bring meaning to corporate award ceremonies.  Read more

Symmes Maini & McKee

Saying "thank you" for the little things at work is easy when HR provides cards and gifts for employees to share.  Read more

The LaSalle Network

Forget about birthdays, The LaSalle Network celebrates each employee's 'hire day' with decorations, balloons, and gifts from the boss.  Read more

Torch Technologies

Recognition for a job well done can be as simple as dinner and a movie, and at Torch Technologies, it is.  Read more

Knight Point Systems

Five founders cultivate a family-friendly work environment that includes tuition reimbursement and big-ticket prizes.  Read more

How Constructive Employee Feedback Can Improve Performance Management

Constructive feedback is crucial to career development, employee satisfaction, employee retention and employee motivation.  Read more

2011 Human Resources Small Business Outlook

Your employees are looking for greater pay, and other HR trends for 2011.  Read more

10 Tips for Boosting Employee Morale

How cake and communication can play a role in employee happiness  Read more

How to Support Your Staff

You can get the most out of your staff by cultivating a creative, friendly environment where employees feel engaged and challenged.  Read more

How to Engage Your Employees

Employee engagement is getting more and more attention lately. The importance of connecting the workforce to your company's productivity can't be overstat...  Read more

How to Get Feedback From Employees

That suggestions box? Ditch it in favor of savvier methods for getting workers to open up.  Read more

Do You Know If Your Employees Are Happy?

As the economy is starting to show green spots, people are starting to change jobs. How happy are your employees? And, how can you be sure?  These ar...  Read more

Employee Gets the Lush Treatment

Giving back to employees and the world is a top priority at Lush Cosmetics.  Read more

Retention: More Important Than Ever

Blogger Nancy Mobley writes that respecting employees, celebrating their contributions, and encouraging open communications can help to reduce employee turno...  Read more

How to Reward Employees on a Budget

You don't have to send an employee on an all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii to show them that you appreciate their good work. Here are some simple, low-cost wa...  Read more

How to Improve Employee Retention

As the economy revives, companies with dissatisfied employees will experience a swift exodus of their top talent. Here's how to keep your staff engaged and h...  Read more

Should Job Promotions Be Random?

A group of Italian researchers recently conducted a study that found random job promotion was more effective than merit-based promotion. Inc. asks sev...  Read more

Damned with Faint Praise

Great managers know when and how to lavish praise on their workers  Read more

Building a Culture of Employee Appreciation

How Datotel overhauled its employee-appreciation, -recognition, and -incentive programs  Read more

How Google Inspires Innovation 

R&D chief Alfred Spector takes you on a tour of the idea factory that is Google. A flat management structure eliminates impediments to the flow of ide...  Watch video

Intuit's Scott Cook on Motivating Employees 

Founder and chairman of Intuit, Scott Cook is responsible for that invaluable entrepreneurial aid, Quick Books. Here he talks about how to get the most ou...  Watch video