Ideas that could improve employees' attitudes!

Today's blog post features recommendations garnered from various firms about how to increase morale and not destroy great employees. Striving to keep the place of work positive should be of major concern to CEOs and bosses. Losing money and time is a great concern. If workers are happy and like to come to work production grows. If they feel that they are part of the team and that they are valued they become engaged to the company. Factory made thank yous and expected pats on the back even heightens and the common bonuses or gifts or treats lose their impact after awhile. In fact employees begin to bank on probable gratitudes and gifts and treats. If you get donuts every Friday it becomes the standard and just a common part of the work schedule. If you give a gift card for every 10 sales it becomes anticipated and if you miss one you will get anger instead of thanks for the gift cards you gave. Remember the movie with Chevy Chase in the Christmas movie where he banks on the yearly bonus from work and when it is not given one year the boss becomes the bad guy in everyone's eyes. In the movie and in real life people just assume the bonus, money gift, turkey, whatever is the norm every year. Often they order merchandise or spend the money before it even comes in. For that reason companies need to be very careful not to do the same thing week after week or month after month or year after year. Food treats should not be the same because they become anticipated and actually become rather boring. Some would say that money is always the best way to go because everyone can spend it however they want. True, but it also can get old. If you toss out a dollar at the weekly meeting one week for something, the next week you bring in a gourmet coffee cart. If you give a grocery card for Christmas one year you need to deliver a gourmet gift basket the next year. If you provide lunch a day one month you need to do something different the next month. Most executives feel that this type of creativity is not a part of their positions and it is not crucial. Morale boosters are very critical. business appreciation are the most effective way to say thanks for a task well done and to encourage hard work in the future. Most of the time organizations use secretaries to find ideas and put together the thank you. For women bouquets and spa packages and gift cards work. For men beer tubs, hardware/home improvement gift cards are great. Restaurant gift certificates are good too. You just have to get innovative. Corporate Gifts or Company gifts can be frustrating when you are including a lot of people in one office--it could be a gesture of empathy or a thank you gift to a whole office or company. You either have food delivered or if you are worried about food spoilage send a gigantic corporate gift basket with various items. My company has put the burden on me, the administrative assistant, to come up with two new options each month to spend only $300 on the 20 employees. They said I need to find gifts of tokens to include everyone. I am looking for new ideas for next month but this month we have seen a huge difference in favorable attitude around the office after my two appreciation gifts were done. The first was for each employee to find one dollar bills in various places during a week. This last week to thank them for their efforts, we had an Ultimate Choice Gourmet Gift Basket arrive to overpower the snack table. After hearing workers talking about the Aurora movie theatre shooting victims, we chose an Aurora gift basket company, Baskets by Rita and we were not disappointed. So remember to thank your employees and show gratitute for a job well done and to encourage really hard work.