Employee Recognition - Build Bridges not Walls

Regular, one-on-one assessments with your staff provide an efficient two-way forum with which to set and review realistic achievement targets, provide feedback on performance, and listen to and consider any problems employees may have. For example, a sales executive may feel that he or she is under performing, when in fact sales targets have been set too high. During the appraisal, these targets could be reviewed and set at more realistic levels. After the goals have been met and the targets achieved, it is just and fair to recognise your employees effort in doing their best.

1. Why Employee Recognition?
This is where employee recognition takes centre stage. Through employee recognition, you give your staff the reason to go on, push a little harder, and achieve their dreams as well. You can do this by giving them better opportunities to prove themselves worthy of the job you gave them. Giving people new or better jobs shows that you recognize their achievements and encourages them to achieve further success. Rewarding exceptional performance also inspires colleagues to improve their contribution in the workplace. All of these boil down to the point that employee recognition is, indeed, a vital element in the company’s success.

2. Planned Employee Recognition
As its name implies, planned recognition is more of a pre-coordinated plan. Because of its frequency, the event may not necessarily be formal. Under this category, the most common employee recognition awards are customer service, attendance, outstanding achievements, employee of the month, productivity, and safety.

3. Immediate Employee Recognition
This method of employee recognition renders acknowledgement at any point in time for exhibition of the principles and ideals being upheld by the company and their role in achieving the targets and goals of the establishment. The company or management may award an employee recognition particularly upon a commendable effort, solidarity, accomplishment of an exclusive project, acquisition of a new company procedure, or simply expressing indebtedness to the employee for making such effort.

4. Formal Employee Recognition
This type of employee recognition is done annually. Because of its formality, the event showcases a very glamorous and prestigious ceremony. This type of employee recognition renders acknowledgement on the total and outstanding performance of an employee. The award itself is so special that every employee aims to achieve it. These are sometimes known as company awards, the high achievers club, etc. In this type of employee recognition, the most common awards are centred on the employee or the department’s outstanding and remarkable performance. This refers to an exceptional work that an employee was able to accomplish in spite of its level of difficulty. The company should, however, bear in mind that employee recognition does not simply mean that it is the right thing to do since your employee has done such merit.

5. The Reasoning
The main purpose of employee recognition is to build bridges among people, to establish communication, and to acknowledge the value of each employee in establishing the success of the whole organization. Moreover, employee recognition is utmost appreciated if the event is timely and is done at a more public gathering. In this way, the impression is more intense. Consequently, the employee recognition should delve more on the effort of the employee to accomplish tasks and not on the result itself. Research has shown that by giving equal weight to the employee’s intellectual, emotional, and psychological needs through employee recognition, the commitment of the staff is increased and therefore productivity increased.

Employees must also remember that:-

- Employee recognition should not be expected
- It does not translate to an instant promotion
- It may not result in any additional monetary compensation
- Is best perceived as a gift
- The main purpose of employee recognition is to positively motivate the group.

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Mistakes you're making with your job application

 

If you're not achieving your dream job, chances are that you are making some mistakes with your application process. 

Below are some of the mistakes that I commonly see.

1. Spelling and grammatical errors.  While this may sound obvious, spelling and grammatical errors signal sloppy work to a prospective employer.
2. Generic Cover letters that are not pitched to the correct audience. 
3. Not notifying your referees that you have applied for a particular job. 
4. Resumes that are not customised for the job that you are applying for. 
5. Flowery statements about career objectives.

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Is your Social Media Profile Career suicide?

How does your professional profile stack up?

When you send your resume in for a position, does it pass the 3 second test?  Yes - 3 seconds before it's rejected.  That's about how long it will take for a recruiter to look at your profile.

Here are some tips for avoiding your resume from being put in the round file.

1) Your email address.  It's amazing how many people keep an old email address with a less than favourable name.  If I had a dollar for every time that I saw an email address with a name like "wild thing " or "hot chilli", I think I'd be very wealthy.  Obtain a professional email address.  Discard the old unsuitable one.

2) Do you have a Facebook account or other Social networking site?  Clean it up.  Recruiters frequently conduct web searches for prospective candidates.  The same applies to You Tube, My Space or other similar sites.

3) Check your spelling and grammar on your resume.  If you're a poor speller, have someone proof read your resume.

4) Make sure that your resume is not long winded.

5) When preparing a job application - allow plenty of time to prepare.  When your application is ready, take some time out to revisit your application to ensure it meets the criteria.

6) With your resume, the question that is always raised is whether or not you should include hobbies.  By all means, if your hobby relates to the job that you are applying for, feel free to include them.  Avoid mentioning high risk activities, unless you are applying for a job as a skydiver.  A prospective employer will view you as a future liability.

7) Professional presentation at the interview is also a must.  Ensure that you are well groomed, with a minimum of makeup and jewellery.  It is better to err on the side of conservative.


Do you have some additional tips that you'd like to add?  Please feel free to comment below.


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