In our December post, Wrap Up the Year Right: Regift Your Team’s 2014 Success, we talked about utilizing positive reinforcement to keep your team motivated all the way through the holiday slump right in to 2015. With January well under way, we wanted to get you prepared to make this year a legendary one for employee recognition. But with so many methods and ideologies floating around on how to improve employee performance, retention and motivation, it’s hard to know where to start. We believe simple is better, and positive reinforcement is simply the best beginning you can make. So let’s start the year off right and dive deeper into what positive reinforcement is and how it can inspire your team.
It's no secret that recognition is at the core of an engaged team, but you've got to get it just right for it to be effective. Luckily for you, recognition is what we do best! We've put together an infographic that will help you recognize right each and every time. Enjoy!
The end of the year is a great time for reflection and holiday-induced excitement, but it can also bring with it a desire to hibernate come December 1. Before your team turns into a group of grumbly, sleepy bears, it’s critical that you take action to recognize the past year’s success stories. While that seems simple enough, it does beg the question: are you ready to wrap up the year while keeping momentum, and getting your team excited to achieve 2015 goals? With a little help from us, you will be.
Our friends at Contactzilla know a thing or two about keeping a workplace connected, and their Co-Founder, Mark Panay, has written a special guest post so you Kudos Lovers can benefit from his Employee Happiness wisdom. Thanks Mark!
You pay your team well, take them out for dinner, let them play pool and don’t mind when they update their Facebook status at work. But does all this really make them happy?
Keeping your employees engaged can be a fine art. Every organization has its own dynamic team with differing wants, needs and goals. Above providing your team with engaging work that they feel good about doing, it is also important to give them time to check out and recharge their batteries.
The #IceBucketChallenge is an amazing phenomenon that all of us at Kudos have been marveling at. Earlier this week our pals over at Vovia Marketing nominated us to take the challenge via Twitter, and we got on it right away!
Normally, sass won’t get you anywhere with the boss, but luckily there’s a new form of SaaS in town. Software as a Service (SaaS) is gaining popularity in virtually every industry, making it clear there are serious benefits to this new approach. Reason number one for 99% of companies is the huge cost savings of paying per user rather than having to buy millions of dollars of software upfront – not to mention the fact that said software will become obsolete sooner rather than later. The cost benefit of SaaS is closely seconded by the benefit of quick deployment with zero additional infrastructure or support costs.
If you can make a case for switching to SaaS applications at your organization, you’ll be a hero. We’re here to offer a little help with five lesser known, but highly important, benefits of going SaaS:
It’s been a few years – OK way too many years – but I can still clearly remember how I felt on the first day of school after summer vacation. There were always butterflies in my stomach as I walked up to school wondering: who’s my new teacher? Will he or she be nice? Will the other kids like me? Will I make lots of new friends?
Celebrating holidays and events tells your team that you value not only their wellbeing, but camaraderie as well. Cinco de Mayo parties are full of energy, and there are lots of fun and tasty traditions you can bring into the workplace. For Cinco de Mayo to be a success, be sure to mark this event in your Kudos Calendar ahead of time, and make an Announcement when the details are confirmed.
You've read the stats. Spent late nights pouring over countless articles. Administered survey after employee engagement survey, only to find that everything echoes what perhaps cosmetics entrepreneur Mary Kay said best: “There are two things people want more than sex and money: recognition and praise.”
The votes are in. A big thank you means more to employees than big bucks.
But, in spite of all your toil, you're probably still searching for just what exactly your individual employees crave recognition and praise for? What recognized action or attribute really makes them tick? Decades of human behavioral research at Gallup have finally pinpointed a factor that's strong enough to turn all of your employee disengagement frowns upside down!
When you’re changing the world one thank you at time™, there’s no time to rest, which pairs well with our team’s inability to sit still. We’re always tweaking, testing and listening to your feedback to make giving Kudos a fun, engaging experience. After six months in the making, we’re proud to launch this new version of Kudos to our users around the globe. We’re even more proud to say that this release is just the beginning; we’ve got big plans in the works this year.
What better way to start the New Year than with a story of success? We love hearing how clients are using Kudos to build a culture of appreciation and recognition. Stories such as Community National Bank and LUSH Handmade Cosmetics make us gush with joy. Adding to this list of Kudos success stories is AXA Assistance USA.
