Employee Appreciation Ideas [YOUR STAFF WILL LOVE]

[@AdrianaGirdler]

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[@heathercunningham4824]

Love the idea of field trips! Thanks for sharing all these great ideas for showing your employees some appreciation.

[@AdrianaGirdler]

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[@karinakeith7799]

Some great ideas here to show staff appreciation. Early Friday dismissal is a great surprise/idea.

[@AdrianaGirdler]

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[@laurenbelayneh]

Love field trips! Gives a team something to look forward to. Great employee appreciation ideas!

[@AdrianaGirdler]

Me too! Can’t wait for activities to truly open once this pandemic is final under control. Thanks for watching.

[@kentcasas5032]

I'm a newly promoted Trainer and I'm very happy to see these clips that will really help me onboard. Thank you very much Adriana. Love from Philippines!

[@AdrianaGirdler]

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[@callicat7405]

I love all of these appreciation ideas. Love surprises! A genuine thank you is always appreciated.

[@AdrianaGirdler]

I think we all love a good surprise! Thanks for watching, cheers!

[@RachelSmets]

Nice appreciation ideas for employees. Thank you

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[@Iamjayaamishra]

Amazing video content Adriana, great presentation & video content...Thankyouuuu for all you do:)

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[@tiffanyharris3048]

Love these appreciation ideas, and who doesn’t like surprises!

[@AdrianaGirdler]

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[@jlex1049]

Hmm, there are some folks who don't....

[@taganbailie7744]

what about if employees work from home? Thanks for the great content!

[@AdrianaGirdler]

Hi Tagan, great question. I will put this on our YT video idea list. Thanks for watching!

[@taganbailie7744]

@@AdrianaGirdler looking very forward to it!

[@tropicalsunshine4689]

Always love your content please continue for ppl like me

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[@DS-nw9zn]

Found your content recently and it's really helpful for aspiring Project managers like myself!!

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[@cherylsenia6776]

Thanks much! Lovely ideas

[@AdrianaGirdler]

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[@simonaco1446]

Loved these ideas, Adriana! Appreciating your team is so important. We all want to feel seen and deserve acknowledgment for what we do :)

[@AdrianaGirdler]

Thanks Simona. Everyone deserves to be appreciated and acknowledged. I alway make sure my team knows how much I appreciate them. Thanks for watching, cheers!

[@jessicalittle135]

Thank you

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[@Es-yb3db]

I think companies need to be wary about using food or gifts as a way to show celebration Im someone with two invisible illnesses that drastically limits what i can eat/how i socialize. This isnt information i like giving out to coworkers, and thatll be relevant in a second. Theres nothing worse than a surprise of food at work, it puts me in an incredibly awkward situation where I either give out personal information that I don't want to give, or not accept the gift and come off as rude. Of course i have the option of making up an excuse, but over time that gets exhausting and suspicious, and ultimately adds up to extra work in place of something that was supposed to be a reward. I know it doesn't fit the current trend of "bonding and connection" but the best way, in my humble opinion, is to stick to increasing their money or time. Those are one of the few universally valued things

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[@Sirie7206]

My boss hates giving us half days. She already thinks we don’t work.

[@AdrianaGirdler]

I'm sorry to hear that.

[@antmagor]

Here’s the best tip of all. Don’t do it all together. Sorry but not sorry, as an employee I’ve always found this “holiday” (employee Appreciation day) to be asinine as they are by in large done for managements benefit not ours. Every time Management arrange’s one of these field trips all I can think is how much money was spent this nonsense that I was forced to attend (and have no genuine interest in) and wouldn’t it have been more cost effectively to just take the budget and divided it among us equally. Instead of dragging us out of bed 2hrs earlier then usual to go somewhere we don’t necessarily want to go, or participate in a myriad activates we would rather do on our own time and at our convenience. When I go to work I am on your time and I am their to do my job. I’m not there to hang out. Anything off the clock and not involving my duties is my time and I do not spend it helping management pat itself on the back.

[@AdrianaGirdler]

That is definitely an option as well. They other option is not to attend the event. Every employee has choice to go or not go. But if a appreciation event happening during work hours would you stay at work instead? Thanks for taking the time to comment.

[@antmagor]

@@AdrianaGirdler no it is not optional at all. It is mandatory and we forgo pay if we do not attend. They require us to be they require us to be their 2 hrs earlier to attend activities Many of us are not interested in an event that is supposedly being done for our benefit. When in reality It’s done for managements benefit, and mostly to keep the unions out. And to better answer your question it’s not about what I’d rather, I’d rather have a union. I’d rather have a wage that reflects the cost of living. And if I really want to feel appreciated I’ll set some of that wage money aside and go on vacation. And if management is going to call me into work two hours earlier than usual, it had better be because they need something that is work related and needs to be done. Calling me in two hours earlier so that I can spend an entire day doing things to make management feel better is a waste of my time.

[@thesisypheanjournal1271]

I must have worked at the crummiest places imaginable, because my first thought was, "Equip them to actually do their jobs well." I've worked in an agency that ran group homes and was too cheap to buy an egg slicer -- a freaking $1 egg slicer -- for a house where the residents liked to make egg salad. "You can cut eggs with a knife." So they squashed morale of the staff and the residents by giving the message that we weren't worth even $1. I ended up buying the egg slicer myself. Their idea of rewarding the employees was inviting them to the quarterly pot luck that all of the residents attended along with their on-duty staff. What kind of reward is it to people who are already working 50+ hours a week to let them come in on their day off and spend more time doing the same things they'd do if they were at work? They took away our internet access (except for the documentation and email) because during an overnight shift I'd found a free training put out by the University of Queensland about suicide risk among people with intellectual disabilities -- the people we were serving! -- and made the mistake of telling HR about it so they could incorporate it (and maybe even replace the article we had to read every year about suicide risk in adolescent girls in juvenile detention facilities, which was not really related to our work). I got in trouble for "unauthorized internet use." We'd also used the internet to google carb counts for a diabetic client and kept getting told, "We gave you a carb count book." It didn't include carb counts even for green beans, much less everything "Jerome" might decide to eat. I had my staff sneak into the bathroom (away from the spy cameras) to google carb counts on their phones. It was absurd! Turnover at that agency probably would have dropped by 50% if instead of offering sign-on bonuses and referral bonuses they acted as if the staff were trustworthy and deserving of the tools they needed to excel. At my most recent job they gave us an iPad mini and expected us to write service plans on them. I ended up just bringing my personal laptop out into the field with me. I had to upgrade my phone plan to have enough hot spot data but I just couldn't stand trying to limp by with that stupid iPad mini. It was like trying to cook a nice dinner with just a hot plate and a toaster oven. They started offering a $1,000 sign-on bonus. I suggested that they instead just buy $1000 laptops and if somebody quits after three months the agency can just assign the laptop to somebody else. Nope.

[@AdrianaGirdler]

I'm sorry to hear your experience hasn't been the best at your various places of employment. Wishing you all the best for the future. Thanks for watching, cheers!

[@Gordy-io8sb]

How about money?

[@AdrianaGirdler]

We would all love that! Thanks for watching, cheers!

[@jlex1049]

How about more pay? You got money for pedicures because "all females love them." No dude, if I want a feild trip it'll be on MY time and terms.