Getting Recognition Right: Putting a Strategic Focus on Employee Recognition Practices and Programs
If you don’t know where you are going any old recognition program or practice will get you there. You need to know the direction you’re going in to make employee recognition successful. WorldatWork surveyed members on employee recognition trends and discovered only 48% of companies actually have a written recognition strategy. Our own research in the public sector found only 52% of managers saying their recognition strategies were really effective.
To produce the bottom-line results you want and create a culture of appreciation, you must become more strategic with employee recognition by designing a recognition strategy which does the following:
• Articulates your philosophy around recognition
• States your company’s purpose for rewards and recognition, and
• Spells out a clear plan to guide everything you do with recognition practices and programs.
By aligning recognition to your business goals and people strategies, managers will finally have a powerful tool with recognition to assist them in achieving these goals. In this way your recognition strategy can be owned by everyone and not just by Human Resources.
In this insightful presentation Roy Saunderson, President of the Recognition Management Institute and author of GIVING the Real Recognition Way, will outline the key factors and a process tool for making a recognition strategy, the essential steps for ease of implementation of a recognition plan, and best practice ideas to adopt in your organization.
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Recognition
Johnson & Johnson Medical Product’s
Journey
Elvie Gee
HR Director
March 31, 2010
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Johnson & Johnson Medical Products
• JJMP markets and distributes Medical Devices
and Diagnostic solutions for use in
institutional and primary health care settings
across Canada
• Umbrella company comprised of 8 different
business units
• Sutures, bariatrics, orthopaedics, cardiology,
instrument sterilization, minimally invasive
treatment solutions
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Johnson & Johnson - The Credo
The Four Tenets
• Customers
• Employees
• Community
• Stockholders
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Overview of the Journey
• Training: What is recognition?
• Recognition statement
• Building awareness
• Putting into practice
• Following through
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JJMP Recognition Strategy Statement
• We believe we have a responsibility to provide one another
with sincere, positive feedback and appreciation in order to
live up to our Credo values.
• This will lead to people feeling valued for their contribution
to the success of the company.
• We will encourage greater risk taking and ownership of
activities by recognizing employees’ innovation and
engagement.
• We know that a successful recognition culture will result in
an enhanced customer experience.
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Short Term Objectives
Training Encore Global Program Informal / Every Day Recognition Events
Develop Define Gaps Informal Everyday Awareness
Ensure Participation Create Guidelines Define Define Expectations Plan events
Effectiveness Metrics Train & Communicate Voice of Employee Drive Accountability Measure effectiveness
Effectiveness Metrics Communicate and Brand
-100% Operations
division trained Recognition Launch and Measure
-Training effective Team
Monkey survey Monkey
(metrics Usage rate
demonstrated) Q12 survey survey
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Short Term Outcome
Managers and employees understand:
• What recognition is
• How to do it right
• What are their individual responsibilities
associated with giving formal, informal and
everyday recognition.
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Long Term Strategy
Formal Recognition Informal / Everyday Events
Global Program
Corporate Program Events Training Informal / Everyday
Usage Strategy Maximize effectiveness On Boarding Accountability
Tracking and Measurement Calendar of events Re-training
Tracking and Measurement Tracking and Measurement
Metrics on
corporate Q12 Engagement Survey results
dashboard
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Long Term Outcomes
Create a sustainable, renewable,
measurable, visible cultural commitment
to Recognition throughout JJMP
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Where we are today
• “Drive it Forward” training program
• Corporate dashboard presence
• Company wide rollout
• People initiative
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Lessons Learned
• Involvement in building Recognition Strategy –
buy-in
• Education: Recognition vs Rewards
• Voice of the employee
• Practice what you preach