Personal recognition for a job well done is important for your workers.

So, you wasted many days in hunt of that perfect employee, two to four interviews later you pull the trigger and hire what you think is the best, but assumed to be a wonderful asset to your company. Training a new hire could take days and it takes much longer for them to inteligently apply what is learned in real life situations. Now you have actually did it! you hired the next champion! Now what should you do?? Staff member will eventually leave. All race horses eventually go lame? Every company, small, medium and large has at one point or another lost an extremely valuable employee. Let's take a moment ot look at how you can effectiely recognize your staff. Though, in a recent poll, money is the second best motivation, the first being authentic acknowledged achievment for a job well done. Recognition and Awards have been around for thousands of years. Recognition and Awards have been around since the dawn of time. I would like to focus on the top tactic of motivation, corporate gifts and awards. Each company is different and there are several different ways to motivate and recognize employees. Let's primarly focus on the absolute best form of motivation, awards. 1.) Awards and Recognition. An award by definition is a monument or souvenir that is earned by an individual or a group to distinguish a mark of excellence.. Employee Recognition Awards can be a plethora of diverse things including trophies to rattle off a few personalized gifts to only name a few. An award may carry a monetary worth or it may just carry an emotional worth, like a new title or induction in an elite club or it could be a public acknowledgment of excellence, without any physical token or prize. Awards can be very effective motivators, though they can also be very expensive. You should to capitalize on the effectiveness of the awards by following these steps. a.) Make a huge deal out of the presentation of the award. Hold an all personnel meeting, lease a banquet hall or at least have the affair catered. The more elaborate the more significantthe award will be when you give it out. b.) Always give a detailed description of why the recipient won the award, how they went above and beyond what is expected. Explain how other workers can receive an award. c.) The award itself should always be personalized.Keep in mind Dale Carnegie says a persons name is the sweetest sound in any language. The value is astronomically elevated if the award has the recipients name on it. Keep in mind Dale Carnegie says a persons name is the sweetest utterance in any language. d.) Stick with it. Most employee recognition programs fizzle out after a few months. Stay with the program, keep setting the bar higher and higher. In summery, key employees are hard to obtain, let alone keep them around for a extended period of time. In no way undervalue the influence of recognition¦ money never hurts either. M,S.