Amazing Ways to Surprise Your Loyal Employees

Are there employees working for your company that you have identified as loyal?

If the answer’s yes, now’s the time to reward them. Surprising loyal employees with gifts and bonuses can be a great way to improve their commitment and performance. Loyal employees contribute to a positive work culture and significantly reduce turnover costs.

Additionally, they will be more willing to invest in their work. However, it can be very difficult to know what to get employees as gifts. This post will hopefully make things a little easier for you by giving you four ideas you can use.

1. Corporate Gifts

Corporate gift sites are great places to turn to if you want to surprise loyal employees. It can be difficult to know what to get employees since it’s very easy to give inappropriate gifts. Remember that your relationship with your employees is a purely formal one. Getting them the wrong gift can complicate matters. So, whether it is retirement gifts or presents to celebrate a promotion you are after, use a corporate gift site. All of the gifts on sites of this kind are appropriate, no matter what an employee’s interests or beliefs are. Make sure that you spread the love around and get other employees gifts as well. If you make showering one particular employee in gifts your priority, employees are going to get jealous, and ultimately your company’s working culture will become a negative one.

Make sure that when you are giving corporate gifts you know your audience. The gifts you give need to connect you with the people you are giving them to. Corporate dessert gifts can be a great way to add a personal touch, offering something universally appreciated while still feeling thoughtful.

While when you purchase gifts from a corporate gift site you don’t have to worry about offending anyone or overstepping boundaries, you do need to think about emotional connection. If employees do not like the gifts that you give them, they are not going to have an emotional connection with them. An absence of an emotional connection means that the gifts you give are more likely to end up in the trash and won’t motivate employees. Take time to get to know your staff on an individual basis. Learning about their personalities, interests, and passions will make it much easier for you to get them a gift that’s going to be meaningful. Getting employees gifts they actually like also demonstrates that you are a caring, thoughtful employer. Cultivating this image can do wonders for your relationships with employees.

2. Bonus Schemes

Introducing bonus schemes is a great way to surprise loyal employees. Bonus schemes are typically introduced around the holiday period, giving employees an unexpected financial injection when they need it most. However, bonus schemes should only be offered to employees who are working hard and meeting targets. Consider notifying the entire company that bonuses are on offer. By letting employees know they could potentially earn themselves bonuses by working hard, their collective performance is going to increase dramatically.

Make sure that you put all the details of proposed bonus schemes in writing so that employees can work out how much they are going to earn. Making bonus schemes more understandable is the best way to ensure that employees commit themselves to them and start working harder. Do not exclude anybody, either. Make sure all employees on your payroll are offered bonus schemes, from the lowest to the highest. Including everybody will do wonders for your company’s corporate culture and show that all staff are equally as important to you. Showing everybody is important can be motivational and touching, especially for employees who’re at the bottom of the ladder, i.e., warehouse or mail staff.

3. Vacation Time

An alternative to giving bonuses out is giving employees time off when they meet their targets. Everybody needs an occasional day off. Unfortunately, many employers do everything they can to keep their employees at work. In addition to offering vacation time, consider giving employees mental health days. Mental health days are days when employees are not required to come to work. Every employee should get at least one mental health day a month. These days give employees time to collect themselves, work through their problems, and improve their general attitude.

Going back to vacation time, giving employees time off when they work hard can motivate your workforce to improve overall company performance. Make sure that you give employees a fixed number of days off each year to meet their targets and work well. You need to do this so that employees can figure out how to use their days off, i.e., for vacations or events. You do not necessarily need to cancel bonus schemes to offer extra vacation days. Some companies offer both. Offering both can be a good way to motivate employees and show them that their physical and mental health matters to you.

4. Formal Recognition

Finally, in addition to offering bonus schemes, days off, and giving corporate gifts, formally recognize your employees’ achievements. If you have a large business, the chances are that you are not going to be the one promoting employees. It’s more likely that you will have people doing that for you. However, formally recognizing your employees’ achievements, regardless of their position in your company, shows them that you are actively watching and paying attention to what’s going on. More than that, recognizing your employees’ achievements shows them that you have an emotional investment in your company and that you care. Many employers are detached and disinterested, which makes employees uncomfortable around them.

An employee of the month scheme could be a good way for you to recognize achievements. You can give additional gifts, bonuses, and days off to the winner of your company’s employee of the month scheme. Introducing an employee of the month program is an extremely effective way to get your employees to work harder and focus on optimizing their performance. These schemes are also effective ways to identify committed and motivated employees who are working very hard. You should promote such employees to higher positions.

Surprising loyal and hardworking employees demonstrate that you care about them, which will improve their relationship with you. It’s always nice to know that your boss recognizes your achievements and wants you to do better. Hopefully, the guidance given here will help you to reward employees