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| Nelson and Blanchard (1994) suggest the following low-cost rewards or recognition techniques:
1. Make a photo collage about a successful project that shows the people who worked on it, its stages of development, and its completion and presentation. 2. Create a “yearbook” to be displayed in the lobby that contains each employee’s photograph, along with his or her best achievement of the year. 3. Establish a place to display memos, posters, photos, and so on, recognizing progress toward goals and thanking individual employees for their help. 4. Develop a “Behind the Scenes Award” specifically for those whose actions do not usually come into the limelight. 5. Thank your boss, your peers, and your employees when they have performed a task well or have done something to help you. 6. Make a thank-you card by hand. 7. Cover the person’s desk with balloons. 8. Bake a batch of chocolate-chip cookies for the person. 9. Make and deliver a fruit basket to the person. 10. Tape a candy bar on delivery of an interim milestone with a note saying, “Halfway there.” 11. Give a person a candle with a note saying, “No one can hold a candle to you.” 12. Give a person a heart sticker with a note saying, “Thanks for caring.” 13. Purchase a plaque, stuffed animal, or anything fun or meaningful, and give it to an employee at a staff meeting, specifically praising him or her. That employee keeps it for some time and then gives it to another employee at a staff meeting in recognition of some other accomplishment. 14. Call an employee into your office (or stop by his or her office) just to thank him or her; don’t discuss any other issue. 15. Post a thank-you note on the employee’s office door. 16. Send an e-mail thank-you card. 17. Praise people immediately. Encourage them to do more of the same good work. 18. Greet employees by name when you pass them in the hall. 19. Make sure you give credit to the employee or group that came up with an idea that is being used. 20. Acknowledge individual achievements by using employees’ names when preparing status reports. |
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