What is a recognition program?
The goal of an effective recognition program is to make employees feel valued. They want to know that their efforts, big or small, are appreciated. In fact, employees produce better work when they are recognized for it – this directly affects your bottom line. Additionally, having an employee rewards and recognition program is an important part of an employee engagement strategy. So, in other words, recognition is essential to driving employee engagement.
How to build an effective recognition program
An effective recognition program accelerates innovation, reduces turnover, and builds a healthy, high-performance work culture. Below are six steps organizations should follow to create an effective, scalable recognition program and how TheLeanSuite can help.
1. Create a plan
Define the timeline, criteria, rewards, and logistics involved.
LeanSuite’s Idea Management System allows everyone, everywhere to participate in a simple intuitive interface of workflows for ideas, quick actions, and problem solving.
2. Build awareness
Enable leaders at all levels to communicate the program.
Promote your program and gather suggestions and ideas through campaigns within LeanSuite’s Idea Management System.
3. Recognize contributors
Enable everyone to celebrate each other.
The Idea Management System's newsfeed enables everyone to recognize contributions by fellow employees with just a click of a button.
4. Recognize publicly
Celebrate employees during meetings, in emails, and on posters.
An effective recognition program needs to enable public recognition. Luckily, the Idea Management System's leaderboard makes it easy to acknowledge top contributors.
5. Reinforce objectives
Provide ongoing updates of the achievements and progress of your program.
The Idea Management System's newsfeed makes it easy to share your program’s progress and highlights.
6. Be consistent
Consistently recognize employees to build credibility and momentum.
The Idea Management System's built-in recognition and reward system makes it easy to recognize and reward employees who are contributing the most.
LeanSuite's recognition and reward program
Organizations can benefit from LeanSuite’s effective recognition program, the Idea Management System and its built-in recognition and reward system.
- Allow all employees at all levels to participate
- Build momentum with peer-to-peer recognition – everyone can learn from each others ideas and actions
- Enable collaboration between all employees at all levels of your organization
- Publicly recognize top contributors to ensure those individuals feel valued
- Reward top contributors with prizes you choose from our Marketplace
