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People are your business - let them know you care
How we treat our employees influences how they treat our customers.
Keeping good employees with good morale means we get to keep customers coming back for more product. That is a lot cheaper than finding new customers, and new employees.
It starts with people.
The Fifth Best Company Gift
The Recognition Gift Count Down Begins
Our number five choice for a meaningful company gift is an Amazon.com gift certificate. You will make an impression on the recipient when giving, when they consider all the options, when they are ordering, upon receipt, and when used.
That is a lot of good memories that include you. Unlike frozen turkeys, gift certificates are easy to handle. Give them out in person with a personally selected and signed thank you card.
Purchase a sizable quantity and give the certificates and provide the unique certificate code. These gift codes can be e-mailed to those too far away to be with you. Quick, easy, and sure to be appreciated.
Amazon corporate gift certificates are available from $5.00 to $5,000.00.
The Fourth Best Corporate Gift
Make them proud to wear it
If your company only hires one of ten they interview, or one of fifty from which they receive resumes - let your employees know.
If your corporate gift is used daily that is good, if it is engraved that is better, and if it appears expensive - it shows you care.
To one of the select few would be a great engraving on that something useful and special.
Have your gifts engraved
or give a custom engraving certificate with each one.
It is time to rethink the gold watch at retirement idea. Why give them a watch when their hope is never to look at one again?
Considering the cost of hiring and training a replacement; a good investment in your current employees might be to give them a gold watch this year. Give them a certificate to have it engraved however they want.
The watches below are just tempting suggestions, click on one to get a look at a much larger selection.
For retirement give a ceremonial hammer to pound a cheap watch into dust
Citizen Eco-Drive Women's Silhouette Crystal Watch #EG2204-50D
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Amazon Price: $180.00 (as of 10/11/2008)
List Price: $300.00
Seiko Men's Kinetic Watch #SKA192
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Amazon Price: $205.00 (as of 10/11/2008)
List Price: $450.00
Swiss Legend Women's Beverly Hills Collection Diamond Accented Watch #40037-G-WHT
Notice the sales price!
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Amazon Price: $199.99 (as of 10/11/2008)
List Price: $1,295.00
Citizen Men's 1000 Meter Professional Diver Watch #NH6931-06E
On sale at a huge discount for a great watch.
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Amazon Price: $1,050.00 (as of 10/11/2008)
List Price: $1,750.00
The Third Best Corporate Gift
up to date, and constantly available
It takes hard work and persistence to develop an innovative idea. It takes even more work to create an innovative product that is easy for clients to understand and use.
An iPod can be a tangible representation of your company's increasingly client-centric attitude.
If an employee already has an iPod, your gift is likely to be an upgrade. Even if they give it away, each time they see one in use they will think of your gift.
And how much you appreciate them.
Small but constantly in use
Innovative and socially attractive, with simplicity of design
Show & tell your employees this is how you want to liberate your business; free to create and improvise, free to discover and exploit new markets.
Everyone wants next year to be a year of elegant solutions.
Apple iPod touch 16 GB, Old (1st Generation)
Amazon Price: $397.18 (as of 10/11/2008)
Apple iPod classic 80 GB Black (6th Generation)
Amazon Price: $200.19 (as of 10/11/2008)
Apple iPod classic 160 GB Silver (6th Generation)
Amazon Price: $348.99 (as of 10/11/2008)
Apple iPod shuffle 1 GB Silver (2nd Generation)
Amazon Price: $46.98 (as of 10/11/2008)
The Next To Best Company Gift
Create great memories
Provide an award certificate to every honored employee, and include a certificate for a three or four hour jaunt in a limo whenever and to wherever they want.
If this works out well, consider buying a limo when new models come out. We are due for a major look change, limousines should then be good for many years. Consider letting any employee book the limo occasionally; that will add some employee satisfaction.
You can also create special events using the limousine in conjunction with a ball game, show, or concert as an award or prize. For most of your employees this will be something they will talk about for a very long time.
"streeetch" your budget a bit further and toss in a gift certificate to a swank restaurant, or a debit card they can use as they wish.
Bon Appetite
The Number One Greatest Corporate Or Company Gift
Just a simple bag
This is a nice carry on bag, no more. Okay, it does expand to allow the carrying back of souvenirs, but no more.
What's that, an envelope is inside?
Use your own sense of drama, a bag at the front of the room, an occasional mention, keep it building.
In the end either the winners of employee recognition, or everyone at an annual company party, gets a quality piece of luggage, and perhaps a gift certificate for travel.
To really excite your crew, tie the gift to this years success, and tell them it will be topped next year if the growth continues.
Then tell them they have an extra 4 days of mandatory vacation.
They do have a life outside your company - let them rediscover it.
Your company will be rewarded.
Do you have a better idea?
What is the goal of your business gifts?
Are you giving because it is expected, to set yourself apart, to recognize superior employee performance, or perhaps to build loyalty?
Maybe you just enjoy sharing and now is as good a time as any.
To all your good reasons we will add one more - to get repeat impressions on those that will directly influence your business success.
A great gift will be noticed more than once.
What great employee recognition gift ideas have you used, or do you plan to use?
We have seen most companies investing in employee recognition want their investment longer than a fleeting cash award or night out. Beautiful personalized objects with a depth of association are much better at connecting organizations with their constituents than commonplace commerce. Many companies and non-profits have found that the gold records that we make at http://www.goldrecord.com/recognition_awards.html meet the demand for sustained employee recognition and connect the people and their purpose for the long term.
Posted October 08, 2008
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k8company
I'm a firm believer in attaboy and attagirl gifts in the workplace. It always amazes me when employers don't get the concept that happy, appreciated employees do their work better. Duh! Posted June 27, 2008 |
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Margaret_Schaut
One year I used really nice company t shirts, and I was amazed at the difference they made in team work and attitude. When I have employees again, I will surely be carefully considering how to show appreciation. Great suggestions. Posted December 16, 2006 |
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