The great thing about rewarding with experiences is they can be low-cost and high-impact, says Justin Lavelle, chief communications officer for BeenVerified, a leading online background check platform. Lavelle offers these tips for creating memorable experiences without breaking your incentive budget.
- Award an extra holiday. Give your employees another day off of their choosing as a way to show appreciation for their efforts.
- Host a family fun employee appreciation day. Rent out an ice skating rink for an afternoon or buy tickets for a family-themed movie, along with popcorn. It’s a relaxed, “offline” way to connect with employees, and it allows everyone to put down their work hats for a few hours and get to know one another.
- Check in personally with each employee. Even the act of checking in with employees and asking them what they like and what could be improved shows that you appreciate them. It’s a personal level of engagement that tells the employee you value their opinion so much so that you would actively solicit feedback, even at the risk of some of it being negative.
- Send a gift card for them to experience something they love. Try to personalize to each employee if possible. The 24/7 coffee drinker gets a card for the coffee shop, the sweet tooth will love a card to a candy, chocolate or cupcake store, and the employee who can’t get enough of the next-door sandwich shop would go gaga over a card that will cover some of their lunches.
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