Taking our Rewards Program to the Next Level
Our company first instituted an employee recognition program three years ago when we wanted to let our employees know that we recognized and appreciated their hard work. Because our company relies on the performance of our sales team we first implemented an employee program for this specific department. Those who reached the particular sales goals that we set forth were eligible to receive prizes – incentives – that we had chosen to offer through our program. We didn’t have a huge budget and initially chose prices that were on the lower end of the spectrum but were still quite effective. Our employees were thrilled with the idea and happy to be able to work towards the prizes that they wanted. They felt empowered and appreciated that we were taking their efforts seriously.
Now that we’ve seen the success of the rewards program firsthand we know the benefits it can offer our company as a whole and we are happy to continue to use it in the years to come. In fact, now that we have a little bit of a bigger budget we decided to change the prizes that we offer in our employee incentives program. While we were able to initially offer electronics and gift cards we are now able to improve the incentives that we were offering – taking them to the next level. We can now offer things like trips and jewelry; incentives that will further enhance our employee recognition program.
More than anything this program improved the morale of our sales department and they were thrilled to see that the prizes would continually change as the resources of the company changed. We figured if it worked so well with the sales team then it would work with the manufacturing division and employees across the board. So this new round of changes will include us offering the employee recognition program to the entire company.
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