The 5 Things You Need To Say To Your Employees:
Rewards don’ t always come with a gift tag. Here’ s what to say to your employees to let them know they’ re killing it at work.
1.“ Thanks for your great work on ….”
Relate, relate, relate. Not thanks for some‘ great work’. Not‘ Thanks for your help’ – but specifics. Be in tune to what people are working on. That doesn’ t mean you have to be physically in the office or hyper aware of what every one is up to, but it might mean that you ask everyone for their team’ s biggest wins every Friday and that you personally see, email or video chat each employee to tell them they’ ve done a‘ great job’.
2.“ You’ re the best at …”
Self-awareness drives passion. Telling people from an outside perspective what they are amazing at really helps. Everyone is good at something, but not many people are thanked for the things that they aren’ t employed for. If you have a data analyst digging out MI – you don’ t need to tell them they’ re great at reports. But you can tell them that they have a great eye for‘ seeing the future challenges and rising to meet them’. They’ ll be pleased as punch and will soon start working to meet the perception they belive others have of themselves.
4.“ I’ m going to help”
Destroy all blockers and your employees will trust you to be capable of anything. That might mean disciplining the people who cause trouble for others in your business time again – even if they are highly skilled. There should be no untouchable people in your business. Or this could mean making a big investment in working environments, or where people park, or how they are paid or rewarded. Say you are going to help – and mean it.
5.‘ Go home’
If no one’ s seeing their family, working on their side jobs and passions and spending time in the shopping centre, the economy is in trouble, and so is the trajectory of what you are working towards. Tell people to go home, to see their family and ensure they leave on time. If your business suffers because
9 hours isn’ t enough, you’ re focusing on either too many things – or the wrong things
3.“ Don’ t worry”
As a leader you know having people worry as hard as you do about business is a route to disaster, instead of success. Great leaders take away worries. Say‘ don’ t worry’ and mean it! www. incentiveandmotivation. com | 05