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How Employee Recognition Awards Can Help Boost Office Morale

By Daisy Emert

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Published: 19Feb2012
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Office moral is often a sticking point for employers. It takes only one person to completely trash the moral of everyone in the office. If the office is small, it could even affect the employers. You may not want to fire the person causing the poor morale because he or she is an excellent worker. You can try speaking to the person about his or her attitude, but that is often just a Band-Aid. A few days later that person may be making disparaging remarks again.

Instead of going through the ups and downs of having a few good days with that person, then reverting to bad days, try boosting employee moral for everyone in the office. You can use several ways to boost employee moral, including using employee recognition awards. The awards could be for many things, including:

• Best customer service award
• Most productive employee
• Employee that brings in the most sales
• Most helpful employee
• Time without taking a sick day
• Most improvement in work product

Choose a different design for each award. For an employee that brought in the most sales, you might have the certificate printed on an "Excellence" certificate. For someone who went above and beyond, you might use a certificate that says "Above and Beyond" and has stars decorating the certificate.

When you use employee recognition awards, your employees tend to compete to get the notoriety of having the award and a good mark in their employee file. This also benefits your business in other ways:

• Employees are friendlier to customers.
• Employees get along better with co-workers.
• Employees are more productive.
• Employees are not in-fighting with each other.
• Employees spend more time with customers, which could encourage the customers to spend more.
• Customers enjoy coming into a workplace — whether office or retail — where the employees are happy.

Don't overdo the team-member appreciation awards. Targeting one area that needs improvement encourages your employees to work harder, but giving an award for everything causes employees to try for awards where they don't have to make changes in attitude or productivity.

You might have an award for a targeted area, plus one "for fun" award. For example, if you have an office that needs an attitude adjustment, use the productivity award, plus add an award for best attendance. If you have an office where the employees have a good attitude most of the time, but sales suffer because employees are "ho-hum" about their jobs, use the customer service award and most improvement in work product awards.You can always add additional awards later, or you can change the awards offered on a timed basis — try to change awards offered each year.

Making your own employee recognition awards to boost office moral is easy when you get blank certificates that let you say just what you want. Daisy Emert loves to recognize all her employees that do a great job and she does that with printable certificates.

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