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Are you defined by your trophies, awards and recognitions?
Many people define their life based on outward appearances. Discover how to go from craving the outward trappings to residing in the space of inner peace.

Will Your Talented Employees Stay
We are at the end of three years of an employers’ market. Lack of job opportunities has kept employees who might want to leave for greener pastures and those who are dissatisfied with jobs, bosses, or their work environment put. Even in industries that traditionally experience high employee turnover, there has been little movement. Because people have had nowhere to go even when they have wanted to, leaders have not had to “Love them or lose them.” It has been easy to, “Use them and they will stay anyway.”

Longing for Meaningful Work
Are you longing to do meaningful work? How would you describe this kind of work. Learn what research shows are the 5 must-haves of meaningful work.
Individual Recognition
The United States Patent Office is the formally recognized institution in which there is a structured process for protecting an individual idea. It is a legally defensible process that is not concerned with who was the first one with the idea, but who was the first one to finish filling out the paperwork. Every year thousands of ideas are wrapped in this transparent veil of protection. It is a testament to those individuals who have taken the time to move an idea out of their head and into a formal structure
Reinforce People More Consistently
Reinforcing people for performing in a certain way will cause them do do more of that activity. The problem most managers have is that they only think of reinforcement when something special happens. This article describes how reinforcement should be a continual process.

Two Incredibly Powerful Words
Are you fueling recognition, leadership, collaboration and results? Are you creating employee engagement? Two little but oh-so-big-and-powerful words can make all the difference! Are you using them wisely,well and often?
Winning at Working--Simple Things
I still have the email. It's been years since a highly placed corporate boss, who had the reputation and approach that things were never quite good enough, sent it to me. He was long on critique and revisions while short on acknowledgement and appreciation.

How Salespeople Can Develop An Attitude Of Gratitude
Don't ever be too busy to show your appreciation to your customers. Read this article to discover the two most powerful words in sales.

How Salespeople Can Develop An Attitude Of Gratitude
Don't ever be too busy to show your appreciation to your customers. Read this article to discover the two most powerful words in sales.

What's Under Your Tree?
The fun part of this season is exchanging gifts. We think of presents at holiday time and on birthdays or anniversaries. Why not think more about giving gifts at work and at home every day? This article explains how to do it.

Other recognition Related Articles

You Can't Quit; You're Too Valuable
When employees do an outstanding job, the least they deserve is recognition. You wouldn’t expect a marriage to last very long without terms of endearment. Why should management think employees on the job function without respect and recognition?
Opportunity as Recognition
In Make Their Day! Employee Recognition That Works, Cindy Ventrice outlines the four elements of recognition. The least understood element is Opportunity. This article explains why opportunity is an important part of the recognition equation.
Leadership and Employee Recognition
Whether you are the head of a large organization or the leader of a small team, you have a critical role in employee recognition. If you were thinking that recognition was someone else's responsibility, you need to read this article.
Letters to the Editors: How to sell your expertise to magazine and newspaper editors
You're an expert, so get the recognition you deserve. Learn how to approach magazines to sell your articles. The recognition this kind of exposure can bring you is well worth the effort.
Leveraging the Power of Large, Well-known Companies to Grow Your Small Business
High-profile companies have the power of recognition and credibility. Discover the secrets (and benefits) of leveraging their recognition and credibility to grow your small business.
Are you guided by ego or spirit?
Many people claim to want to live a life filled with a strong spiritual foundation yet they are driven by recognition and acknowledgment. When we need to be acknowledged for every little thing we do, we tend to get less done. Why? Because we use energy to manipulate the situation to our ego's need for recognition rather than simply doing whatever needed to be done because it's the right thing to do. Learn a very simple strategy to live in spirit and be of service in the truest sense.

Pathways and Pitfalls to Giving Personal Recognition and Appreciation
Whether or not your team or organization develops a healthy recognition and appreciation culture depends to a large extent on the personal example you set. If you manage-by-exception or Gap-Zap people, most others will follow your lead. Energy and morale will be low. In this uncaring environment, recognition programs will be contrived and out of place. They won't work for long.

Personal Recognition and Appreciation is an Inside Job
Like improvement efforts, effective reward and recognition is an integrated process, not a bolt-on program. Since you can't make your team or organization into something different than you, it has to start with you. Whose needs are your recognition and reward systems designed to serve? What are the goals? Are they to manipulate, control, and "motivate?" Or do they build an atmosphere of helpfulness, appreciation, and high energy? How do you know? As with beauty, quality, or customer service, reward and recognition are in the eyes of the beholder.

Recognition Do's and Don'ts to Inspire and Energize
Like improvement efforts, effective reward and recognition is an integrated process, not a bolt-on program. Since you can't make your team or organization into something different than you, it has to start with you. Whose needs are your recognition and reward systems designed to serve? What are the goals? Are they to manipulate, control, and "motivate?" Or do they build an atmosphere of helpfulness, appreciation, and high energy? How do you know? As with beauty, quality, or customer service, reward and recognition are in the eyes of the beholder.

Reward and Recognition Reinforce Paternalism or Partnerships
It seemed like a good idea at the time. As The Achieve Group (my first training and consulting company) was rapidly growing and hiring new people, I put together a sales incentive and recognition program. It had increasingly bigger prizes, bonuses, travel, and awards with each sales level or "club" achieved. At one of our meetings, I excitedly unveiled my new reward and recognition program.

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