In a former life I was a Gallup-certified facilitator for their Q12 program for my company:
http://gmj.gallup.com/content/default.aspx?ci=811 Marcus Buckingham's book "First Break All The Rules" is an excellent book on helping to understand how to fully engage (and appropriately recognize) employees on an individual basis. It also speaks to the "recognize the individual" theme that some of the other responses to this thread have mentioned. In short, what often makes employees feel truly valued (and also increases productivity) has less to do with the tangible rewards of say a movie ticket or a gift certificate, but is more about the things that we all-too-often find harder to quantify but have a more lasting impact. Jon On Nov 21, 2006, at 8:56 AM, Ben Nadel wrote: > This is not CF related really, but more of business question. I was > just > wondering what people do at work to make their employees feel > appreciated. I am not talking about large things like Health Care or > 401Ks. I am talking about the little things that make a difference. > Things like getting free movie tickets on your birthday or getting > your > own business card (yes, not all employees get their own business > card). > > Just looking for ideas and I thought I would throw this out here > (since > I love you CF people). > > ...................... > Ben Nadel > Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX7 Developer > www.bennadel.com <http://www.bennadel.com/> > > Need ColdFusion Help? > www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:261359 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
