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knowledge rewarding staff
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Management advice
Show some
appreciation
Bonuses, staff nights out
and away days are great
ways to reward your staff,
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our mother always told you to say there is a lot of doom and gloom,” says Steve
“thank you”. And mothers are Preston, career and development coach and
always right, aren’t they? Showing director and owner of SMP, an independent
appreciation when someone has consultancy firm.
but when budgets are
done something for you is imbedded in our A lot of agencies have had to cut back
culture and part of everyday communication. on incentives – the traditional way of
slashed, how can you show
And now more than ever it’s time to bring acknowledging achievement and success –
that you care about and
mothers’ sound advice to the workplace to but Preston sees personal interaction as
appreciate them? Phoebe
help raise morale. much more valuable.
“Staff need to feel valued in anything they “People are very grateful for a bonus or
Ferris-Rotman finds out
do, especially in the current climate where incentive but it’s very short-lived and often
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