Purchase the recommended Employee Recognition Plaque Program for your size/type of business. Research shows that, to be effective, you must recognize 1 employee for every 30 employees in a given category. I’ve never seen any client be successful recognizing less than 1 in 50 employees. Period.
As an Example: Successful restaurant managers typically recognize a “Front of the House” Employee (wait staff) and a “Back of the House” Employee (cooks, busboys, etc.). Why? How do you compare/judge these different types of employees against each other? You can’t. They are different.
Why? Because your employees think the “brass ring” is out of reach. Psychologists tell us that people “won’t even TRY for a goal they can’t easily SEE before them!” Recognizing 1 out of 30 employees means that they have a chance of winning every 30 months (that’s 2 ½ YEARS!). And, some managers want to recognize ONE out of 240 Employees!
Our Client Success Manager will call you and help you set up an effective, results-proven program criteria for your business. This customized criteria must be submitted to us within a week after Teena calls you. This insures you know how you will assess your winners. This will eliminate, “Hey, let’s give it to Janet this month”.
Turn in your “Monthly Winners” on a consistent basis. (This is a key element of any successful recognition program.) Pick a day of the month that is best for you, giving you time to “do the numbers” for picking a winner for each category of employee to be recognized.
You must then fax/email/call them in within 7 days of this date, every month. No exceptions. This insures that you do it every month, as prescribed. (Example: You pick the 10th as your day, and you submit your winner’s names on the 12th. No problem. You turn them in on the 21st. Guarantee voided.) We know what works, and we’ll only guarantee that.
Take pictures of ALL employees receiving their awards, and do it in front of their peers. Give them a copy, either printed or digital. “Why”, you say? Believe it, or not, there are some managers out there who walk up to employees and say, “Oh, by the way, you are “employee of the month”. Here’s your award.”
Give the plaques out in the monthly meeting. Period. Talk about what “this individual” has done without disclosing their names yet. Then, invite that person up to the front as you say, “Janet is our “Sales Agent of the Month” for February!” Take a picture of the two of you, as you present her the award, and then have the picture developed, and give her the picture! It’s that easy!
Management changes during the program voids the warrantee. Here’s why. The number one reason companies discontinue our program is because of management changes during the course of the program year. These same people don’t change the employees, furniture, carpet, etc. of the old manager, but they feel that they MUST do “something different” than the old manager did when it comes to Employee Recognition. Huh?
Our recommendation is to create their own criteria for the awards that are ALREADY being used in the store. The old manager already spent the money! Benefit from it.
*Final Notes To Guarantee Your Success when using our program…
Doing these 5 simple tasks every month will insure your success, and you’ll see why our average client stays with us 6.86 years. We want to help you succeed. If our program wasn’t the best one out there, store managers would not call us when they change stores, get promoted to District Manager, or take an entirely new challenge with a new company!