{"id":5137,"date":"2011-08-17T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2015-02-04T15:42:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T22:42:59","slug":"creative-employee-of-the-month-recognition-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/creative-employee-of-the-month-recognition-suggestions\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Employee-of-the-Month Recognition Suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/Blue-Ribbon-Specialty-Certificates\/-149174\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5464\" title=\"Blue Ribbon Specialty Certificates\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/CT1251-2-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Ribbon Specialty Certificates\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/CT1251-2-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/CT1251-2-150x117.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/CT1251-2-350x273.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/CT1251-2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Most people are motivated by money to do well at their job, but employee recognition is equally important if you want enthusiastic, motivated employees working with you.<\/p>\n<p>In difficult economic times, when money isn&#8217;t necessarily available to reward employees, creative employee recognition ideas can certainly come in handy.<\/p>\n<p>Ideas for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/rewarding-employees-in-creative-inexpensive-ways\/\">rewarding employees in creative ways<\/a>\u00a0are limited only by your imagination!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pro Tip:<\/strong> When acknowledging an employee&#8217;s good work, keep in mind that not all people appreciate the same type of recognition. Some employees may want their recognition given publicly, while others prefer a more private acknowledgement of a job well done.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some creative employee-of-the-month recognition ideas to start your creative juices flowing.<\/p>\n<h2>Thoughtful Ideas:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Handwritten <a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Thank You Cards\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/NoteCards\" target=\"_blank\">thank-you card<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Letter of appreciation in employee&#8217;s file<\/li>\n<li>Recognition posted on employee bulletin board<\/li>\n<li>Recognition in the company newsletter<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/Great-Job-Vinyl-Banners\/-164359\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Great Job Vinyl Banner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/100003658m-small.jpg\" alt=\"Great Job Vinyl Banner\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Verbal praise either privately or at a company gathering<\/li>\n<li>Take the employee out to lunch<\/li>\n<li>Send the employee to a conference she\/he wants to attend<\/li>\n<li>Ask the employee to represent his\/her department at a meeting<\/li>\n<li>Give the employee company merchandise (shirt, hat, coffee mug, etc.)<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Award Certificates\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/Certificates\" target=\"_blank\">Award certificate <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Certificate Holders\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/Certificate-Holders\" target=\"_blank\">Plaque<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-oembed\" title=\"Banners\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/Banners\" target=\"_blank\">Banner<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Larger work space<\/li>\n<li>Better equipment<\/li>\n<li>Privileges (leaving early, work-from-home, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/Above-and-Beyond-Specialty-Certificates\/-142505\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5462\" title=\"Above and Beyond Specialty Certificates\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/CT12222-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Above and Beyond Specialty Certificates\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/CT12222-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/CT12222-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/CT12222-350x280.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/media\/CT12222.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Obviously, these ideas can work for any type of employee recognition&#8211;not just employee-of-the-month awards. Use these and any other ideas you can think of to remind your employees how valuable they are to the company. Remember that positive reinforcement is a great motivator!<\/p>\n<p>PaperDirect has a full line of employee recognition tools perfect for all types of companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people are motivated by money to do well at their job, but employee recognition is equally important if you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employee-recognition"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14318,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions\/14318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}