Concerned with employee retention? Consider Service Awards

As a manager or owner of a business, are you concerned about employees leaving your company?  One tool to consider is adding Service Awards to your HR tool-belt.  Periodic or annual service award programs have been proven to be successful in improving employee longevity.  Considering the cost of employee acquisition, training, etc. – this number can be huge!  The cost of a gift to acknowledge their year(s) of service is small in comparison.

This is not just me blabbing, folks, studies have proven that service awards and other periodic recognition increases job satisfaction - that makes them stay longer.

Also, it is important to gauge how often you present service awards.  For some well established companies, recognition at the 1, 5, 10, and 20 year mark is perfectly appropriate.  For some start-ups or companies with higher turnover positions, it may be prudent to provide them with gifts at the 1, 2, 3, 5 and 10 year mark.  Even 6th month awards can be worthy of recognition if the typical employee lasts 2 months in a position – don’t laugh…there are plenty of ‘less than desirable’ jobs out there.

Don’t blast them with the same gift each anniversary date.  Consistency is good, but who will want a gift basket year after year, or the same plaque or acrylic award year after year?  I suggest an award every other time period, and a useful or edible gift on the off year.

Looking for award product suggestions?  I have them!

For the earlier years, I suggest an acrylic award like these: Acrylic Ice Block, Peaked Acrylic Awards, or a Diamond Oval Acrylic Award

For the middle years, I suggest an award plaque like the Rosewood and Glass Plaque or the Custom Black Engraved Appreciation Plaque.

For someone with 15 or more year of service, consider a crystal awards like a Loving Cup Crystal Trophy or a Triangular Cobalt Blue Engraved Vase.

Questions are always welcome!

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.