4 Ways of Showing Gratitude to your Workforces Through the Intranet

As tech paces fast and the world of business keeps metamorphosizing, we might be caught up in situations that makes us feel that it’s old-fashioned to send teams written thank you letters. It is surprising how appreciating employees for small things can ramp up their output. A research shows that gratifying simple acts of your teams creates stronger workplace relationships, give constructive reinforcement to personnel and enhances interpersonal healthy interactions in work.

To get you started appreciating your workers, we’ve highlighted some of the ideas to enable you to appreciate to your workforce through employee intranet?

1. Recognize Anniversaries, Birthdays and Personal Accomplishments

The employee intranet portal renders an easy way of commorating and celebrating individual accomplishments and a person’s most important period in life. Send them special note via the intranet to celebrate their birthdays and anniversaries. People feel appreciated when their boss can recognize treasurable their moments. The Anniversary and Birthday widgets are in-built intranet features that provides notifications about approaching events.

2. Mention Outstanding Employees but Remember Inclusion is Key

When posting corporate news in the employee intranet, it is vital to mention individuals who played crucial role in weaving up the project. Just don’t forget to mention other teams whose efforts contributed to the success of the final project.  You can mention individuals in community sites and forums in your intranet.

3. Publicly Announce Promotions and Salary Increases

It is vital to recompense deserving individuals with promotions and salary increments but don’t forget to say thank you for their small contributions that can easily fade away through daily workflow processes. Then, find a way of announcing the promotions via the intranet. You can create a special site where intranet users can view people who have been promoted. Or you can opt to announce via intranet’s news, blog or forum section. Enable social media-like features like commenting, thumping up and use of emoji to find out how other teams perceive promotions and other reward programs you’ve put forward.

4. Give Chance to Work Teams to Appoint Best Performing Individuals

Occasionally, give your personnel through employee intranet portal the chance to nominate candidates for the employee of the month awards. Do this on group or community sites to achieve the desirable output. In the workplace, workmates have a higher chance of spotting their colleagues’ small efforts than managers. Go through forum and blog sections to know what other staff members think about the nominations.

Building intranets for employees is fundamental towards increasing team cohesion and motivation through practical recognition programs. LS Intranet comes with in-built features such as Birthday and Anniversary Widgets that enables you to recognize employees’ valuable moments. Call or email our team if you need support in creating internal communication system that enable swift employee recognition.

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