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10 Employee Appreciation Ideas You Can Use To Encourage And Motivate Your Team

By Daisy Emert

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Recognizing and acknowledging the ways that your employees contribute to your company is as important a part of their job satisfaction as monetary compensation. How can you let your workers know how much their contributions are appreciated? Try out some of the employee appreciation ideas below:

1. Give out employee certificates regularly to recognize outstanding work. An Employee of the Month or Top Sales of the Quarter award certificate will let your employees know that you are aware of when they go above and beyond.

2. Give occasional small bonus perks for big achievements. Finishing a large project sooner than expected, landing a huge client and finding ways to save the company money are all worth of acknowledgement. Whether it's take-out on the boss or a coupon good for half a day off on a Friday, these little extras are great for employee esteem.

3. Create fun little gift packages to give away as employee rewards. For instance, tie a RedBox movie gift card and a bag of microwave popcorn with a ribbon to give an employee a relaxing evening treat.

4. Recognize important dates such as birthdays and employment anniversaries. Cards are great for birthdays and yearly milestones. However, think about a larger gift, such as a gift card to a local coffee shop to recognize the loyalty of employees who have been with you five or ten years.

5. Let your employees vote for one another to win a Staff Choice Award. This gives them a chance to let their colleagues know how much they are appreciated.

6. At the end of each year, give a perfect attendance award. This lets employees know how much consistency means to you.

7. Arrange for inexpensive or free chair massages at the office. Your employees will feel spoiled by this luxurious perk.

8. Add a kudos section to your company newsletter. Use this space to recognize both professional achievements and personal ones. Also have spaces to congratulate employees on anniversaries, family births and graduations.

9. Do a bagel breakfast at work once a month.

10. Start a Sunshine Fund that employees of your company can contribute to on a voluntary basis. Then, when employees have significant life events, whether positive or negative, you can use the fund to buy a larger gift card to help out.

There are dozens of ways beyond a certificate maker or the other nine employee appreciation ideas above to let your staff know how much their contributions mean to you. Ask staff members what perks they would like to see.

An appreciation certificate or award certificate is often given when someone surpasses expectation and deserves a certificate of appreciation as recognition of their outstanding effort. Daisy Emert's experience leads her to use an award certificate maker to provide unique accolades made from blank certificates.

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