As the New Year rushes in, new approaches and trends are forming to compliment employee incentive programs. Technology has once again “upgraded” our expectations of how we receive our information. In this case, how employees handle the input and output of employee incentive pograms, recognition, and safety programs.
Social media platforms encouraged individuals to communicate through peer-to-peer posts. Society has become very comfortable in this type of communication, and they expect to utilize peer-to-peer recognition in their incentive programs. Employees enjoy the fact they can instantly “post” a message or response to a situation they are involved in. Programs need to bring forth more employee engagement through more online peer nomination and recognition.
As stated in, Top 10 Trends for Employee Recognition in 2013, recognition, thus employee incentive programs, now become more personal for an employee:
“Personalization of recognition will be front and center as a strategy for giving more meaningful appreciation in the workplace. Employers will capture recognition preferences with onboarding new employees and expect more manager interaction to do the same.”
The expectation of more statistical information will also be sought after in 2013. An employee will want to see the bigger picture of why they are being recognized. A program will need to show more reporting capabilities of the company’s goals with a program, and visually reinforce why an employee is striving to receive his/her award.
It’s time to start driving your employee incentive programs through the most relevant media avenues to arrive at your goal(s). People have reached a new comfort level engaging social media platforms. Now we can take another step of utilization to offer a more complete incentive or recognition program experience for an employee. Be attentive of the New Year, new technology, and new trends. React with a New Year approach! Please leave a comment below and share about how you will improve your employee incentive programs.
