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You may be the boss, but you're only as
good as the people who work for you.
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- No Cost
- Verbal
- Face-to-face
appreciation (thanks) or words of encouragement
- Informal or formal
public appreciation (staff meetings, etc...)
- Take a few moments to
speak to the employee and get to know on a more personal
level
- Written and/or
documented acknowledgement
- Write and send a letter
and add to personnel file
- Place a brief note
(Post-it) on employee's desk or computer monitor
- Request a note to the
employee from the Office of the Governor and Lt.
Governor
- Perks
- Name a day for an
employee
- Temporarily name a
conference room after the employee
- Provide a reserved
parking space
- Encourage/allow
attendance to special events, training
opportunities, etc…
- Allow the employee
to spend a day or coffee break time with
the Department Director
- Allow a day or
other appropriate time period of casual attire
- Give the employee a
temporary title promotion (can be a fun
title)
- Assign Team Leader
responsibilities (if applicable to
employee)
- Assign additional
tasks in an area the employee particularly
enjoys
- Electronic
- Leave the
employee a voice mail praising him and/or his
performance
- Send an e-mail
to the employee or all employees
- Acknowledge an
employee on the department’s web-site
- Indirect
- Take action on
employee idea or suggestion
- Hold regularly
scheduled staff meetings to keep all employees
informed and let them know they are an important
part of the
organization
- Low Cost
-
Supervisor/Manager wash employees car
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Pack/buy lunch for the employee
- Design
and implement a “You were Mentioned” award for
occasions when an employee’s performance is
praised by a
coworker
- Design
and implement a “Caught You” award to distribute
to
employees who are caught in the act of “doing
something right.”
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Purchase a “traveling trophy” to rotate among
performing
employees
- Issue
certificates for achievement, length-of-service,
etc…
- Send
an employee balloons or flowers (may also be
“high” cost)
- Hold a
special celebration such as an ice cream social,
popsicle
day, etc…
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Arrange for a photo with the Governor
- Plan a
lunch with the Department Director or the
employee’s
supervisor or manager
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Provide pens, pencils, mugs, etc...may be
personalized with a message
- High Cost
- Balloons or
flowers
- Special
celebrations
- Lunch with the
Department Director or the employee’s supervisor
or manager
- Plaques
- Pens, pencils,
mugs, jackets, personalized items
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