We live and work in such an interesting time.
The employee is looking for compensation and benefits, from different perspective, there is a search for: Wellness at the workplace.
Occupational / Intellectual / Financial / Social / Emotional / Physical / Spiritual / Environment - Wellness!
Employee is looking for a Company which:
Inspires to dream more, learn more, do more
10 easy ways how_to_make_your_employees_happy through praise and appreciation
1. 10 Easy Ways
How to
Make
Employees Happy
through
Praise and
Appreciation
Quality of people is a key determinant of success.
2. “To win in the marketplace, you must first win in the workplace.” – Doug Conant, CEO of Campbell’s Soup
1. The Company Posts Personal Praise
Occupational Wellness
Whenever Company gets a
chance to praise an
employee, makes it public,
makes her/him feel
appreciated by colleagues
and management.
A simple appreciation/thank
you letter, post-it slip or a
print-out…. Everybody sees
it.
3. 2. The company Appreciates
And Says ‘Thank you’
Environment Welness
The management team calls or
meets an employee just to say
‘thank you; without discussing
any other matter.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle
4. 3. Management Sends Greeting Cards
Spiritual Wellness
Department Head Managers are
sending greeting
cards
and even small
gifts/attentions to the
employees on the occasion
of important holidays. Also
creates/brings the
celebration atmosphere
with tiny décor touch ups.
“Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.” -Stephen R. Covey
5. 4. The Company is encouraging learning
Intellectual Wellness
The management team is
proposing the participation
of good team members to
courses, team building
workshops etc.
“Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.” -Napoleon Hill
6. 5. The Company has an open doors policy
Time with the manager
Company’s open door day
when the management
team will listen to
employees only.
Maybe just a simple
replacement of a broken
chair makes an employee
so frustrated and there was
no chance to tell anybody
about it.
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” -Steve Jobs
7. 6. Team’s Picture – Public Praise
Environment Wellness
The Company has a picture taken
of the entire staff, has it
enlarged and hanged in a
visible spot.
Most people like to physically
see themselves as part of a
team – we applied it on our
Menu and worked great, all
the employees were showing
off with their picture.
“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” –Buddha
8. 7. The Company supports creativity
* Company’s
forum/board/suggestions box
of discussions, where all can
post/drop any creative
thoughts or ideas.
* Starting up a Books Group
– many employees are
passionate about reading.
“Culture is about performance, and making people feel good about how they contribute to the whole.” -
Tracy Streckenbach interview, , The New York Times
9. 8. The Company Surprises its’ Employees
Emotional wellness
Surprise cake, flowers,
chocolates, which ever
may be the case and
asking the employee
to leave a little early
on her/his birthday-
working day…
“On what high-performing companies should be striving to create:
A great place for great people to do great work.” -Marilyn Carlson, former CEO of Carlson Companies
10. 9. The Company is recreational
Social & Physical Wellness
Recreational activities are
organized such as:
• Movies
• Museum/fort visits
• Theatre plays
• Spring of Culture Concerts
• Family day at the beach
• Al Areen Zoo visit
“When people are financially invested, they want a return.
When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.” -Simon Sinek
11. 10. Company’s Light-hearted Awards
Sweet and sassy Company’s
light-hearted awards that
recognize something unique
about each person like, ‘Best
Screen-Saver’ or ‘Best Joke
Teller’.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work day a in your life.- Confucius
12. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.- Aristotel
Inspires
to dream more,
learn more,
do more.
A Company which: