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Exit interviews are standard fare at many organizations. Whether you find them helpful or you dread them, you understand that the purpose is to glean useful feedback from departing employees about ways your company can improve. The exit interview is an important tool for gathering insights that people might otherwise be hesitant to share. After all, a departing employee has no reason not to be completely honest with you.

But what if you could glean those same vital insights before an employee is ready to walk out the door? That’s the power of stay conversations.

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.