Great Tips to Host a Corporate Employee Party

Recognize Employees With This Great Advice:

Bravo to you – on beginning an employee recognition program at your corporation or organization.  You’ve made a choice to embrace your current valued employees and in the course of action, you’ll increase company spirits and productivity.  While selecting the recipients and choosing the awards may seem like fun, the real challenge will surface when it comes time to arrange a ceremony that your employees will enjoy and remember.  A truly memorable awards event is one that not only recognizes achievement with honors and awards, but that is also an enjoyable occasion that employees will talk about around the water cooler throughout the year.

Organizing an employee recognition awards ceremony can sound like a frightening prospect… but it can be a lot of fun.  Here are some helpful tips that may assist you to make the night everyone will appreciate.

• Forgo the Table Dancing and Liquor – One of the biggest dilemmas that organizers fear in planning a corporate awards ceremony is whether or not to serve alcohol.  We’ve all heard stories about the company Christmas party, where someone let loose a little too much and how badly they embarrassed themselves.  Alcohol during a company gathering will result in boozy behavior that will inevitably bring about somebody’s firing the next work day.  Consider a wine and beer only event, as it will still allow your employees to unwind, socialize and enjoy the evening but put a cap of two drinks per employee by using “vouchers”. 
• Avoid the Shabby Diggs – Conduct your ceremony in a hall or restaurant.  Having the employee recognition ceremony at your office or place of work is in poor taste, and no one wants to meet up at the smoky Elks Lodge with poor Vixen’s head staring down from the wall. It makes the whole experience feel cheap to have shabby diggs.  It’s only fair to match the quality and elegance of the awards ceremony itself with worthy surroundings. 
• Look Dapper – Make your employee ceremony a formal affair.  This classy touch will allow your employees the opportunity to escape the daily grind and be glamorous for the occasion.  People love to dress up! 
• No Trespassers – Make sure you accommodate at least one guest per employee, only.  Letting award recipients bring a spouse or significant other to witness their important moment will make them feel more like part of the team and a family-oriented company.  However, just don’t leave it open to the employee bringing his whole extended family.  Especially Crazy Uncle Ralph who burps unexpectedly. 
• Be Happy and Festive – With all the crystal awards, trophies, ribbons, plaques, formal attire and acceptance speeches – it’s easy to forget why you are having the awards ceremony.  You’re there to celebrate teamwork, togetherness, success and achievement.  These are instilled by providing a happy workplace.  So above all else, be sure to have a good time.  This is an event for the employees.  What matters is that they take a break from the 9-5 to connect, get to know one another and celebrate the occasion. 

Planning an awards ceremony can seem like a tall order.  You are sure to have a great evening in store for you, your valued employees and their loved ones.

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Recognizing Employee Excellence – Keeping Business Integrity

My life coach, Shandel Slaten of True Life Coaching, states that integrity is Words, Thoughts and Actions being in alignment.  That is extremely important in my company as well as the companies we serve.

For me, how would our customers feel if we promised their awards would get there on a certain date, but we didn’t fulfill on our promise?  That would be a major breach in our core values and our integrity.  So to keep our integrity, our staff does what it takes to keep our word in delivery dates, accuracy and quality.

As it pertains to our customers, I feel that awards and recognition products helps them keep integrity with their employees.  Most companies value their employees above most everything else.  To be in alignment with that value and keep integrity with their workers, it is important to keep them happy and performing at a high level.  This includes giving them incentive to excel, acknowledging them for a job well done and maintaining a high level of morale.

My wish for employers, especially in these uncertain times, is to make sure that their employees are appreciated for their contributions to the company.  Even if your company is struggling or downsizing, it is important to keep your staff’s sense of worth and contribution up.  This can be accomplished by kind words, gifts, contests, or recognition.  While our company specializes in corporate awards and one of my goals is to sell more of them, my main point is for people to get recognized for a job well done.

If the time comes to award your employees, please keep us in mind and visit our website for some of the best sales awards, corporate recognition, corporate achievement, and corporate gifts available.