Show Employees the Appreciation They Deserve

Employee Recognition and Gift Ideas to Support Employee Engagement

Your employees are the heart of your business. Human resources research shows that if employees feel appreciated, it drives employee engagement. Fully engaged and happy employees drive your business’ success. Organizations with higher than average employee engagement have:

• 27% higher profits

• 50% higher sales

• 50% higher customer loyalty

• 38% higher productivity

Showing your appreciation for employees through gifts, recognitions and awards serves two purposes: honoring the employee and boosting your business’ bottom line.

This makes it more important to truly recognize employees purposefully when they deserve it and this can be for a variety of reasons:

• exceeding sales target

• meeting health and safety requirements

• reinforcing the company’s mission statement

• welcoming new employees to the company

• thanking volunteers or employees for their contributions whether it be for a company contribution or participating in a charity event

• celebrating retirement or a special anniversary with the company

4 Ways to the Right Gift for Employee Recognition

So, how do you pick a gift that will appropriately recognize the employee and garner employee engagement? Here are a few things to think about when selecting employee recognition gifts:

1. Make it Part of Daily Life

An employee recognition gift can be created to continuously honour the employee. By creating an employee gift that is part of their daily life, the employee will receive a constant dose of your appreciation for them and this is what garners the type of employee engagement that helps build and drive your business. A great idea is an eco-framed motivational poster or certificate of achievement to commemorate their contribution. This type of recognition can be customized to each individual even if you are giving awards to hundreds of employees across the company.

2. Make it Useful

By creating a useful recognition piece, your employee will experience enjoyment for days and years to come. Every time they pick up that item, they will receive another reminder of their achievement. When considering a useful employee recognition gift, it is important to keep quality in mind. If the item is intended to get a lot of use, you want to make sure it will last. A great example of this is a personalized and company branded SIGG water bottle which is durable and will last for years to come.

3. Make it Memorable

Employees spend the majority of their waking hours working to make your business a success. These hours are spent with co-workers who make up a big part of their lives. Friendships and mutual respect form within the walls of your business. And, with those friends/co-workers, memories are made. A great idea to show appreciation to employees for a successful project might be a framed photo collage of the specific project or the people the employee worked with. This is an employee recognition gift that they will look back on for years to come and will bring back fond memories. We worked with Allstate to create a beautiful collage which was appreciated by all of the members of the team.

4. Make it Personal

Find out what the employee you are recognizing is passionate about outside of work and create something special that will really speak to their passion. It can be especially poignant if you can combine the passion with the company brand. For example, if the employee is a running enthusiast, you can create a running shoe shaped Lucite recognition piece that incorporates the company’s brand colours and logo. This approach can used successfully when you have a company team participating in a charity run in conjunction with the company. The whole team can receive special co-branded recognition pieces that incorporate the personal experience of the run. We created a piece to commemorate a rib competition with a rib embedded right in the award!

Create a Unique Employee Recognition Award to Drive Employee Engagement

Showing your employees how much you appreciate them really does have a huge impact on employee engagement and your business. So, it is vital to really put some thought into what you can create for them that will really show them how much they are valued and respected.

We can help you to create a unique employee recognition award to show your employees how much they matter to you and your business. We can happily discuss design ideas, custom shapes, brand color matching and even the option of incorporating your actual product into the award. If you want to acknowledge a dedicated employee for any reason at all, contact Clearmount’s employee recognition specialists.