15 Original Employee Award Ideas That Show You Care

An employee award today isn’t like your high school superlatives. Your staff wants to be recognized and appreciated for their performance at work (and not just voted “class clown” or “best smile”). Recognition looks different for everyone, but a series of studies by Harvard Business Review show that symbolic awards (public credit, cards, certificates, and […]

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Service Award Banquet Round Up

December 28, 2016

It’s WOW Wednesday! HR leaders, execs, and managers: How do you WOW the people who go above and beyond for you in your business? Or, how have you been WOWed? Today’s WOW Wednesday comes from Judy  She says: “We did one of our annual service awards (recognizing years of service) banquets at our local MANE (Montgomery […]

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Taking a Pause to Applause and Praise

May 4, 2016

It’s WOW Wednesday! HR leaders, execs, and managers: How do you WOW the people who go above and beyond for you in your business? Or, how have you been WOWed? Today’s WOW Wednesday comes from Terri She says: “We featured an applause wall for Call Center recognition. When customers called in to praise a CSR, a […]

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Surprising Ceremonies

April 13, 2016

It’s WOW Wednesday! HR leaders, execs, and managers: How do you WOW the people who go above and beyond for you in your business? Or, how have you been WOWed? Today’s WOW Wednesday comes from Claude He says: “I work in local government and serve about 1,000 employees. We do a lot of things relating to […]

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Quarterly Award Presentations

October 28, 2015

It’s WOW Wednesday! HR leaders, execs, and managers: How do you WOW the people who go above and beyond for you in your business? Or, how have you been WOWed? Today’s WOW Wednesday comes from Agnes She says: “We do our award presentations at a quarterly basis, all employees are nominated by their peers for […]

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Onsite Recognition Event

July 29, 2015

It’s WOW Wednesday! HR leaders, execs, and managers: How do you WOW the people who go above and beyond for you in your business? Or, how have you been WOWed? Today’s WOW Wednesday comes from Mary Ann. She says: “We normally have a annual convention for our employees at which time we recognize service award […]

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Recognized Accomplishments

July 22, 2015

It’s WOW Wednesday! HR leaders, execs, and managers: How do you WOW the people who go above and beyond for you in your business? Or, how have you been WOWed? Today’s WOW Wednesday comes from Erika. She says: “For our non-profit organization, we usually have an end of the year banquet where members can bring […]

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Nomination Presentation

December 31, 2014

It’s WOW Wednesday! HR leaders, execs, and managers: How do you WOW the people who go above and beyond for you in your business? Or, how have you been WOWed? Today’s WOW Wednesday comes from Shelley. She says: “We video tape the nominators reason for nominating the individual as well as have senior command staff […]

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Key Attributes of an Employee's Achievement

November 12, 2014

It’s WOW Wednesday! HR leaders, execs, and managers: How do you WOW the people who go above and beyond for you in your business? Or, how have you been WOWed? Today’s WOW Wednesday comes from Cathy. She says: “During our award ceremony we present the employee with their award and also give the spouse a […]

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