Employee Appreciation Day next falls on Friday, March 1, 2019. However, if you limit your appreciation to only that one day, your employees may not feel appreciated every other day of the year—when it counts. For this reason, it’s best to make it a regular practice.
Workers deserve to feel appreciated every day they walk into the office. After all, without these team members performing vital tasks, your organization wouldn’t be able to do business. Not to mention, employees who feel valued are more likely to work harder and be more productive.
Looking to boost morale and output at your workplace? Follow these four tips to help your fellow employees feel appreciated on a daily basis.
1. Listen to Your Colleagues 2. Remember to Say Thank You 3. Respect Their Time 4. Offer Rewards and Recognition
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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