What Are Good Incentives To Offer Employees To Motivate Them And Make Them Feel Good?
I am the Assistant Customer Service Manager of a finance company. I am looking for different ideas for motivating employees and making them feel good with rewards. They can be monetary or otherwise.
You have some wonderful ideas already and I can add. One of the most rewarding incentives is “praise”. Too often employees are criticized for something done wrong. Good employees that show on time, do their job, don’t complain need “encouragement” knowing their work and presence is appreciated. “Praise” three times more often than criticizing each week.
Personnel files often contain the “negative” ONLY. These files effect income, promotion, etc. Any “well done” or exceptional work needs documenting and put in the files as well. Another “wrong doing” to employees that will effect performance is the “performance review”. Too often management grades below actual performance to “allow room for improvement”. This will “deflate” a good employee fast if they are doing a great job NOW.
Georgia Pacific in Atlanta conducted an experiment in one of their many departments. Management praised employees often, properly graded performance reviews, placed positive “beyond the norm” remarks in personnel files. These simple acts increased moral and overall production improved.
Good Luck, stay positive, give employees the attention they deserve.
I work for an insurance company and one very memorable time our company was pushing alot of overtime but to give us an incentive to stay they would buy us meals if we were working at night and if we met a predetermined goal by the end of the week we would get a half day off to use at our discretion. I loved it!
Employee appreciation Luncheons, BBQ’s, Street fairs.
special lunches.. (bring in saute chefs to prepare lunch ala’ carte )
all these can be tailored for particular functions like a specific program goal or achievement. make it company wide to encourage other units to do as well.
Make target metrics based on % improvment so that one unit can compete with another an not be the same function (machinists productivity, vs travel departments booking ratess.)
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When i owned and operated a Kirby Vac. co. distributorship i was able to motivate independent contractors to work (and produce) 15 hours a day 6 days a week. generally i found that individuals will kill themselves for public recognition on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis (recognition generally was in plaques and trinkets). monthly and weekly awards were monetary and was relative to the amount of revenue was generated. plus, it never hurt to take out my top dealers and there significant others to dinner. it gave me a chance to meet there support team at home, and get them on my page/team.
Monetary is always good. Employee of the Month – special parking – theater tickets, sports tickets, concert tickets, dinner coupons, you can base them on how many customers they assist, how much they collect, any little contest for them to playfully compete with each other. sk them what they would like (just do a small little conversational survey – no big money layout for an offical corporate survey_ just a little meeting looking for ideas.
You can never go wrong with money or time off.