How to Select the Perfect Personalized Gifts and Awards for Your Employees
When you present your employees with personalized gifts or awards, you must make sure that the correct message is being sent. This is vital to experience optimal results from your employee recognition efforts. Here are 4 things to keep in mind while you are choosing an employee gift or award:
1. Purpose
The first thing you need to do before choosing is to pinpoint your exact purpose. Whether you are giving an award to a few select employees for working exceptionally hard, or you are giving gifts to every employee in the entire company, why are you doing so? Do you want to encourage hard work, or do you simply want your employees to know they are appreciated and valued?
2. What they want
Sure, of course, your employees will enjoy receiving any sort of gift or award. However, the important question to you should be how much will they enjoy it? If you give your employees something they do not truly care to have, they will not feel as appreciated as you had hoped for. This is where you need to take the time to get to find out what exactly it is that your employees would enjoy. The time spent will pay off!
3. Meaningfulness
Much of the “meaningful” element will come from how the award or gift is presented. For example, the employee’s direct manager could present it, or the CEO of the company could present it. The optimal choice depends on how the company is structured, the size of the company, and the culture of the company. As another example, let’s say you are giving every employee in the company a Christmas gift. It would probably be more meaningful if the card inside the bag was signed by the CEO him/herself, or perhaps by several individuals in top management.
No matter what kind of gift or award you decide on, whether it is a tangible item, such as a plaque with a custom engraving, or an intangible item, such as a two-night vacation, the most important thing is that it sends the correct message to your employees.
Since 1964 Award Crafters has been designing, manufacturing and distributing Awards and Recognition Items to Local, State and Federal Government Agencies. With more than 400 current supplier partnerships, (some dating back to the 1960s) you can be confident that if we don't make it in house, we can get it.
Award Crafters, Inc.
8854 Rixlew Lane
Manassas, VA 20109
(703) 818-0500
www.awardcrafters.com
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