Employee Recognition & Engagement Resources

American Nurses Association (ANA)’s National Nurses Week is celebrated each year from May 6th through May 12th. 

Part 1: The importance of celebrating work anniversaries with Years of Service awards

• What are Years of Service awards?
• Why is it important to recognize an employee’s work anniversary?
• The benefits of an engaged and recognized workforce

Part 2: Best practices for celebrating work anniversaries with years of service awards

• When should you begin honoring employees for their years of service?
• 15 best practices for offering Years of Service awards

Part 3: Working with a SaaS provider to implement your YOS awards

• How do values-based incentive points programs work?
• Benefits of values-based incentive programs
• How a SaaS provider can help
• Next steps

Total Recognition Platforms have been shown time and time again to improve employee engagement, increase productivity, and make employees genuinely feel a sense of appreciation from their organization. Announcing the adoption of a Total Recognition program to your employees should bring feelings of motivation, loyalty, and appreciation.

According to a recent Gallup poll, nearly two-thirds of U.S. workers who have been working remotely during the pandemic would like to continue to.

You may be asking yourself, can my employees get as much done while working from their kitchen table? And the answer is yes, but their productivity levels could be even higher than pre-pandemic levels if they are engaged.

Each year on March 5, employers in the U.S. celebrate Employee Appreciation Day. It allows you to show your employees how much you value the work they do for your organization each day. There are no rules for this non-official celebratory day besides letting people know their value.

At C.A. Short, we celebrate workers on that same date. However, we focus on peer recognition through the increasingly observed Cheers for Peers Day, which has also become a nationally recognized, yet non-official professional appreciation day. Showing employee appreciation is the same for both days, but the method of doing so is somewhat different.

If you are thinking about switching over to Cheers for Peers this coming March 5, now is the time to discuss it and plan.

Here are some thoughts we want to share to get started.

Engaging employees and providing real-time recognition can be a challenge. There are many questions to consider such as, what are the best tools to boost employee engagement? How can you encourage peer-to-peer recognition in the most meaningful way? Let’s first start off by exploring what peer-to-peer recognition means.