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Recognition has always been an important strategy for employee engagement, but recently we have seen a shift in culture that emphasizes the positive impacts of recognition for business outcomes. According to our2018 Trendicators Report, 89% of employees believe that strong recognition programs improve engagement. However, there are still gaps between what employees would like to see in their companies’ recognition programs and what companies actually offer. For example, 70% of employees would like to have a choice of rewards, but only 38% of companies offer this option.

Few variables have greater influence over employee productivity and retention than the relationship between employees and their immediate supervisor. However, until now, what employees want most from their managers has not been the subject of concentrated and comprehensive scientific analysis.

What Employees Want Most From Their Managers presents an overview of the results and actionable takeaways from a decade-long investigation by Dr. Jack Wiley, Ph.D., Engage2Excel’s chief scientific officer. This research involved more than 100,000 survey participants and represents 26 countries, all major job titles and three generations across all major industries.

What do employees want most when it comes to recognizing their day-to-day contributions in the workplace? How do the recognition programs of employers align with these preferences? These are among the topics explored in this review of 2020 Employee Recognition Trends.

The Employee Recognition Gap

While recognition and incentive program owners are optimistic, with many projecting budget increases for the coming year, long-standing disparities remain between employee preferences and workplace realities.

As we head into the Thanksgiving holiday, we are thankful for many things such as our clients and our success. But most of all we are thankful for our people. We’d like to recognize and THANK each of our employees for all the great things they do to make us successful and for inspiring each other to be better and strive for the best.

Do you know what inspires people to do great things? We think Roy Saunderson, Chief Learning Officer at our sister company, Rideau, has pulled together a great list of qualities and behaviors anyone can incorporate to inspire others! Check out his thoughts below from his originally posted blog “Inspiring Your People To Do Great Things” from October 2019.