Giving Recognition

Description

Over the long term, excellent performance and productivity are rewarded with improved customer loyalty and organizational success. But in the short term, people want to hear from others around them that they are doing something right. By recognizing and reinforcing positive behaviors, managers can encourage and reinvigorate individual contributors to repeat the behaviors that lead to positive results. Learn about the impact of recognition, barriers to giving recognition, key actions for giving recognition, tailoring recognition to the recipient, and planning and practicing recognition.