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Long Service Awards – The clock takes time into its own hands!

January 27, 2012 By Darren Tracey Leave a Comment

As the UK employment market prepares for yet another year of turmoil it is no wonder so many companies are redundant to rewarding and recognising employees for their length of service. A recent article in Employee Benefits Magazine titled ‘Long Service Awards still have value’ highlighted the current need for effective Long Service Awards (LSAs) and argued that the carriage clock does not have to die off however, it does need a makeover.

LSA’s are still considered one of the most important forms of recognition for staff loyalty, acting as the foundation for most company’s ever growing reward and recognition programmes. Many organisations have taken the opportunity to modernise their company’s image through effective use of LSA’s in order to ensure that their rewards remain current, effective and valued. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Heading, Recognition Tagged With: length of service, Long Service Awards, staff loyalty, staff recognition

You don’t realise what you’ve got till it’s gone!

January 24, 2012 By Darren Tracey Leave a Comment

The Telegraph’s recently released article titled “Staff morale hit as pay cuts and freezes continue” highlights the motivational challenge most companies will have to face over the next 12 months.

The Telegraph revealed that it isn’t just the fact that there are pay freezes, cuts and financial instability it is the way in which companies are communicating these to their employees. The severe lack of communication, honesty and cohesion is having a devastating impact on UK worker’s morale. The Chartered Institute for Personnel Development stated that better communication between managers and workers could see morale significantly improve. Those companies who communicate the rationale behind their salary/bonus restraints have a better chance of keeping employees on side.

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Filed Under: Communications, Heading Tagged With: communication, employee engagement, Motivation, Recognition

Stryker Strikes again with employee engagement!

January 17, 2012 By Darren Tracey Leave a Comment

With business back to normal many organisations are now keen to review their current employee engagement processes. A recent article in HR Zone titled ‘7 Guidelines for Employee Engagement: Lessons from Stryker’ revealed Gallups enterprising new case study on global medical devices company Stryker. The case study illustrated several key principles in running a successful employee engagement and recognition programme…

Vice President of the North American plant operations for Stryker Fred Lorestrani revealed that “engaged people feel good about coming to work every day” The medical supply mogul which employs over 20,000 employees stated that despite their sales increasing by 8.9% since 2009 their levels of employee engagement (which had reached 45%) was just not good enough! [Read more...]

Filed Under: Heading, Motivation Tagged With: employee engagement, employee ideas, Engagement, Motivation

Make sure your New Year’s resolution doesn’t go in one year and out the other!

January 10, 2012 By Darren Tracey Leave a Comment

Following the festive season most offices are looking slightly bare, employee’s pockets are somewhat empty and many of us have surrounded ourselves with chocolate wrappers and stale mince pies; it seems the January blues are now upon us. Most workforces endured continual anxiety and stress throughout 2011 which was why it was so important to allow staff some down time over the Christmas period. However that time is over and employers need to start to revitalise their workforce in order to hit 2012 running! [Read more...]

Filed Under: Feature, General, Heading Tagged With: employees, engaged, Motivation, Sick Days, valued
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