7 Employee Recognition Ideas Worth Using

Great employee recognition ideas can really help your company grow. Companies with a solid employee recognition strategy have stronger employee engagement, decreased turnover, and higher productivity. Making your employees feel valued and respected is the right way to start your employee recognition plan.

1. Keep a Good Book – Keep a notebook recording the good deeds of employees. Encourage employees to write in the book to recognize team members for accomplishments, either personal or work related. Then hold a weekly company meeting to read aloud the past week’s entries.
2. Adjust Your Programs for Your Employees – Find out from employees what forms of recognition resonate best. Taking just one approach on recognition misses the mark on how we should be recognizing them. Ask employees exactly how they would like to be recognized.
3. GEM Programs – 'Go the Extra Mile' Programs are a great idea when trying to motivate employees that are falling short of their goals. When an employee witnesses another employee going the extra mile, they can nominate them for a GEM reward. This makes employees feel truly appreciated for what they are doing.
4. Social Media – Who doesn’t like to be #trending! Supplement your office recognition with a call out on your company’s social media pages. The social media reach across their industry will leave them smiling.
5. Use Your Company Website –Dedicate a section of your homepage to employee recognition stories.
6. Host a Friday “Crush-It” Call – The “Crush-It” call is SnackNation’s time-honored tradition. Friday afternoon the entire team huddles together and goes around the room stating 2 things:
   1. “Crush” someone on the team who they want to recognize and why
   2. Something you are grateful for
7. Don’t Take Employee Recognition Too Seriously – Keep employee recognition fun and lighthearted. A stale employee recognition program will not accomplish what you would like it to, so try mixing it up on a regular basis.

Make employee recognition personal, relevant, and recognize employees in a timely matter. But most of all keep it fun. SnackNation offers 33 of the best employee recognition ideas. Find them here!