Recognizing & Engaging Employees For Dummies - Softcover

Nelson, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119067537 ISBN 13: 9781119067535

Publisher: For Dummies, 2015

Synopsis

Improve engagement, productivity, and motivation with effective employee recognition

Recognizing and Engaging Employees for Dummies gives you the tools and information you need to improve morale, productivity, and personal achievement with a successful employee recognition program. Written by a world-leading authority in employee recognition, this book walks you step-by-step through the design and implementation process and describes the incentives that work, the behaviors to reward, and the mechanisms that must be in place for the program to be effective in the long term. You'll learn how to pinpoint the places where engagement and recognition could improve the bottom line, and how to structure the reward for optimal balance between motivational, financial, and organizational effectiveness. With clear explanations and a fun, friendly style, this book is your quick and easy guide to boosting productivity, profit, and customer satisfaction.

Most Americans who leave their jobs cite lack of recognition as the driving factor. When your employees feel appreciated, they stick around, work harder, achieve more, and drive your business onward and upward. This book shows you how to bring that dynamic to your workplace, with step-by-step guidance and helpful advice.

• Design successful recognition programs
• Create powerful incentives for employees
• Reduce turnover, improve engagement, and drive excellence
• Foster a happier and more productive workplace

Happy employees are productive employees. They get results. They innovate. They are the force behind the advancement of industries. Effective employee recognition programs are self-sustaining motivational tools that keep the fire lit. If you're ready to spark the flame, Recognizing and Engaging Employees for Dummies is the ideal guide for designing, implementing, and maintaining the program your employees have been waiting for.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Learn to:

• Use employee recognition to drive unprecedented results
• Take employee engagement to new levels in your organization
• Increase employee performance, productivity, retention, and morale

The effective way to improve morale, productivity, and personal achievement

This book walks you step-by-step through incentives that work, the behaviors to reward, and the mechanisms that must be in place for a recognition and engagement program to be effective in the long term. With clear explanations and a fun, friendly style, this is your quick and easy guide to boosting productivity, profit, and customer satisfaction.

• Get acquainted ― learn the key elements of employee engagement, discover how it's driven by recognition, and gain five strategies for fostering involvement
• Put the fun in fundamentals ― get friendly, down-to-earth guidance on the principles and importance of recognition and review the most effective ways to acknowledge employees
• Start implementing ― discover how to successfully execute a recognition and engagement program throughout your organization―from the ground up
• Culturally speaking ― create a culture of employee recognition, use an online system, and sustain and re-energize your efforts along the way for quantifiable results

Open the book and find:

• A jargon-free intro to identifying and engaging employees
• How to enhance employee engagement through recognition
• Step-by-step guidance for building a culture of appreciation
• Tips for selling recognition to senior management
• How to acknowledge and engage Millennials
• Guidance on troubleshooting recognition problems
• The top ten trends in employee appreciation

About the Author:

Dr. Bob Nelson is considered one of the world's leading experts on employee engagement, recognition, and rewards. He is president of Nelson Motivation, Inc., a management training and consulting company that helps organizations improve their administration practices, programs, and systems.

About this edition

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1119067537
• ISBN 13: 9781119067535
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384