Do you have the most awesome team on the planet?
Then, you’ll want to show them that you appreciate them. Not only to retain their awesomeness in your business, but because you want them to know how great they truly are.
And, we have the best ways for you to show team appreciation.
Here’s the down low on why team appreciation is essential for your business and how you can do it in an authentic way.
Show Appreciation To Your Team The Authentic Way!
The Benefits Of Team Appreciation
When employees know their hard work is appreciated, they feel valued. When it’s recognised, this motivates them to maintain and improve their great performance. Showing appreciation and recognising your employees’ hard work can benefit both your company and your staff.
Some of the biggest benefits of showing appreciation to your team members include:
- Increased morale: When employees receive recognition for their hard work, they feel personally appreciated, which improves their confidence and their enthusiasm for their job. Increased morale makes it more likely that employees stay with you for longer.
- Improved engagement: Regular employee recognition and reward systems often incentivise team members to do their best. This leads to increased engagement at work and a greater sense of connection to the company.
- Better performance: When employees believe they will receive appreciation for good work, they perform better and increase productivity levels. This can contribute to better results and business growth.
- Stronger company culture: Businesses that recognise employees frequently often incorporate appreciation into their company culture, which can create a positive work environment and a stronger sense of teamwork.
Appreciation vs Recognition
While the meanings are similar, there is a distinct difference between recognition and appreciation.
Recognition is giving credit for the hard work that your employees do. But, appreciation is reserved for recognising something specific about a team member, like their efforts to help with a project or their hours spent working overtime on a new initiative. Appreciation can come in many forms – from shoutouts in team chats, group calls or meetings, or team appreciation emails. Even better: with a well-chosen, personalised gift with a heartfelt note.
Here at Giftology, we provide gifts with a difference. With options suitable for EVERYONE, we put a special focus on designing ongoing corporate gift programmes for Kiwi companies. We’re the ideal service provider when you’re looking to show appreciation to your employees via gift giving. We’re a 100% Kiwi-owned company and the bulk of our gifts are NZ-made or sourced.
The Best Way To Show Your Appreciation
We truly believe in the power of gifts. Gifts can boost morale, lift staff retention and even attract new talent. When you present gifts to your employees and other important people within your business network, you take these relationships to a deeper level, putting yourself one step ahead of competitors.
But there’s an art to gifting. A poorly-chosen gift will make an impression for all the wrong reasons — or just get tossed out and forgotten. If your business is struggling to manage corporate gifting, or you’re continually putting it in the too-hard basket, Giftology can help.
Say It Now!
The great thing about appreciation is that you can show it at any time. You don’t wait for people to leave to tell them you appreciate them.
Here are some of our top tips to ensure you keep employee appreciation part of your day-to-day:
- Acknowledge accomplishments right away
- Write a thank-you note
- Present the individual with a thoughtful, fitting gift
- Thank individuals or your entire team publicly
- Celebrate traditions
- Ignore small mistakes
There’s Never Too Much Appreciation
No one ever gets tired of being appreciated. So don’t limit your appreciation. It can be something that you express daily. It’s something you can even plan for.
Giftology can help you create a year-round gifting programme and work with you on an ongoing basis to put that programme into action. It’s a set-and-forget system, freeing up your time so you can focus on what you do best.
Giftology will:
- Design an effective gifting strategy for your business
- Manage your gifting budget and ensure you’re getting good value for money
- Help you choose the perfect gifts that send the right message
- Send the gifts on your behalf
- Take care of the entire process for you!
When To Celebrate
As we noted above, you can never show your appreciation too often. Great times to show your appreciation to your employees include:
- Thanking them for their previous work before they take a promotion
- Acknowledging their work to reach significant milestones
- Dedication during a challenging time (think: COVID lockdowns and business slowdowns)
- Acknowledgement when they’ve been training or helping other team members
- Completion of a tough project
- Winning over a new client
- Closing a big sale
- Reaching a work anniversary.
Ready to discover a better way to show appreciation to your team? Talk to us at Giftology to set up a free consultation with our gifting experts and get started!
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