12 Ways to Show Employees You Care
Posted by Markham F. Rollins III on Tue, Feb 14, 2012
Like me, I am sure all of you always try to keep employees motivated, happy, and engaged. This can be a challenge on top of all the other responsibilities we as leaders need to focus on.
As part of my planning process each year I always try to schedule some time to send notes to employees. Either for something I heard about from a client or a coworker. I actually have written some notes and sent them to their homes. Not a lot of effort but it goes a long way.
Our company holds an employee appreciation breakfast each month on the final Thursday. We provide breakfast and a short agenda that includes the following:
- Open conversation, Networking
- Celebration of special days - Birthday, anniversaries, milestones, promotions, professional development and other celebrations
- We celebrate any new accounts that have joined Rollins in the last month
- We read out any accolades received from clients about team members
- We ask all team members to thank any fellow team members for any special effort on their part. This is always a great love fest!
- We briefly review any official Rollins messages we need to share.
We have been doing this for 10 years now and it is the highlight of our month. Getting everyone in the same room once a month to share positive news is always a great motivator.
Click the button to the right which will provide an outline of 12 ways in which you can show employees you care. Instead of trying all of them, try at least one and bring more on as you can.
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