Employee Incentives Make It Easy to Stay Connected, Part II
In the last post, I talked about the tremendous growth of my company and how happy I was to have seen it flourish over the years. The downside, if there had to be one, however, was that I was less in touch with my employees. While we used to be a small but solid team that worked together shoulder to shoulder in the trenches everyday, today we were a spread out by size. My company had tripled in size over of the years and while this was amazing from a business perspective, I had to admit it made me miss the old days in terms of the personal relationships I had with my employees.
I had taken steps to make things better by reaching out to my employees in a number of ways and one of those ways was through the employee incentives program that I put in place. Through a rewards program, I could set and define the goals that I wanted employees (and the company at large) to reach. By reaching these important goals, employees would then be eligible to choose prize incentives from the rewards program that we set up.
The employee program has been amazing on so many levels and has brought about great change in our company. The benefits have included:
A change in morale. A bigger company is harder to gage in terms of employee morale day to day. When morale is high, however, a positive spirit pervades the entire organization and that is what we were seeing everyday.
Higher production. It’s not a surprise that happier employees mean better production. They come to work ready to do the job and they are excited about the goals they can reach and what they can accomplish both individually and as a team.
Reconnection. I had found that our employee recognition program had opened a dialogue again between me and my employees. It wasn’t just about the job anymore; we were connected through something fun and meaningful to everyone.
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