Employee of the Month Program: Why It Breaks and What Works
How an employee of the month program works, the six ways it backfires, eight repairs if you already run one, and what to run instead of a monthly winner.
Playbooks, research, and Slack tips for making appreciation part of how your team runs — not another tool nobody opens.
How an employee of the month program works, the six ways it backfires, eight repairs if you already run one, and what to run instead of a monthly winner.
What to say, what to send and what to skip for work anniversaries — year by year, with messages, gift ideas, and how to stop relying on somebody remembering.
Forty words of appreciation for good work, grouped by what you are recognizing — plus the three things every message needs and six words worth retiring.
There is no official employee appreciation month. Here is the real date, why a month of activities falls flat, and a four-week plan that outlasts March.
There is no official colleagues appreciation day. Here is the date most teams use, what to actually say to a colleague, and how to make it more than one Friday.
Sixty employee appreciation messages grouped by the moment that earns them, plus the four-part formula that stops any of them reading like a template.