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Pro Tips to Run Successful Pilot Programs at Your Company

When launching a new enterprise program, you’ve probably considered whether it’s necessary to pilot the program with a small group of users first or just launch the program and address issues as you go. In our experience, pilots are generally a good idea for a number of reasons. They allow us to get a glimpse into what things will be like when the program is rolled out at scale.  Pilots also allow us to mitigate problems on a smaller scale and catch and correct them before they reach a wider audience. Perhaps there are details we haven’t thought of that come up in the pilot, but in being proactive, we can now plan for the unexpected when we launch at scale. But how do we make sure our pilot is successful and serves its purpose?

Getting Started with a Corporate Wellness Program

A corporate wellness program can be incredibly complex or quite simple. Either way, it should be aligned with leader expectations and consider input from the employees. The results can be staggering. Outlined in this article, employees report feeling better, happier with their employment, and taking fewer sick days. Whatever program you ultimately design, in the end, employees that use it should like it. However, not everyone has to love it to still get an ROI.

Most companies that have under 20 employees may find it a challenge to implement all strategies outlined in this article. Since small companies have a limited number of employees for team challenges or just the availability in time to implement. For smaller companies, consider the number of people it takes to play pickleball, ultimate frisbee, or simply clean a park/river/wooded area/neighborhood. The great part about cleaning parks of trash is you don’t have to be together. You can be at your own parks and share photos of before and after shots on your business collaboration tools, such as Slack or MS Teams.

Two things to consider going forward into a corporate wellness program: services and competition. Provide services to your employees such as access to online mental health, encourage healthy eating, online classes, and provide outlets to quit smoking or drinking. Concurrently, companies can utilize the power of gamification and competition. Think group competition rather than individual competition. Create groups across pods (e.g. cross-functional groups) or departments.

Comprehensive List of Employee Recognition Program Names

Selecting an interesting and catchy name for your employee recognition program can be instrumental in setting it up for success. After all, this will be your staff’s first impression of the program and studies have shown that over 70% of employees across organizations believe that an interesting program name is indicative of how interesting the program is likely to be. Recognize’s “Custom Labels” feature offered in our Gold and Platinum packages allows customers to choose a name that creates a meaningful connection with their staff, is relevant to their company values, and can tie in with their organization’s brand.

Choosing the right name can take time and effort. We’ve cultivated a list of impactful employee recognition program names to help you get started.

Four Ways Credit Unions Engage Staff With Online Employee Recognition

People are moving to Credit Unions because CUs provide a better member experience. Part of that experience is interacting with happier staff. Since CUs are for the community and are smaller by nature than big banks, the HR team has a better chance at engaging and keeping staff happy. HR member experience teams know that when employees are happy, members are happy.

Comprehensive List of Company Values

Over 50 ideas to help focus your company around common principles.

2021 Human Resources Trends

On Christmas Eve, 2020, the Recognize team published their trends predictions for the HR industry going into 2021. In the article, we look back at our last year’s predictions to see where we fell short or hit the mark. The trends are based on linked research as well as the Recognize’s own experience working with companies in the Americas and abroad.

How to Engage Frontline Employees

We asked seven business leaders how they were engaging their frontline workers or advising their clients on engaging their diverse workforce. With many workers now at home, it is even harder to get a pulse of the organization and engage in the right way. At Recognize, employee recognition online is only half the battle. To engage frontline workers, Recognize provides a frontline worker package to SMS login, recognize staff, and redeem a reward. Further, printed certificates, physical buttons to press, and TVs of recognitions are all strategies to recognize frontline workers.

The Comprehensive Guide to Working from Home

Original research from Recognize into working from home and employee engagement, productivity, and happiness. This article is to help team managers, human resources, and individual contributors navigate WFH.

Emotional Intelligence Interview Questions

No one ever said hiring was easy. Companies continue to grapple with the best approach to hiring. One of the big issues is reliability – that the interview will predict behavior in the job. One way to help with this is asking the right questions that touch on your company values and their emotional intelligence.

Amazing Award Certificates

In honor of all the great work employees do out there, Recognize is providing 10 free incredible employee award certificate templates for various occasions.

5 Ways to Use Recognize during COVID-19

Ways your company can use platforms like Recognize to make your employees' lives better during the ongoing pandemic

Cultivate Positive Remote Work Experience

10 ways your company can cultivate a positive remote work experience so that everybody wins.

Employee Recognition in Okta

How you can use identity and access management providers like Okta hand in hand with Recognize

Become a Zoom Power User

A cheat sheet to get the most out of Zoom teleconferencing

Banking Health Survey

Recognize published the survey results looking at health of workers in the finance industry and employee recognition.

Utilizing employee recognition & incentives to combat Coronavirus in your company

How we can utilize employee recognition and help ourselves to fight the coronavirus outbreak.

Combat Burnout in Healthcare

How Recognition and Engagement can combat Burnout in Healthcare

Human Resource Trends for 2020

See Recognize's predictions for 2020 in HR, while we also look back at 2019 trends.

Website Design Trends of 2019

Our writings can't always be about HR and employee engagement. Here's a look at the web designs we saved in 2019 that we loved.

How to Engage your Employees in Office 365

How to leverage your existing Office 365 subscription to engage and retain employees.

How to run an awesome volunteer program with Recognize Incentives

As the dust settles on new year celebrations, it doesn't take long for good wishes to turn to new year's resolutions. With 2019 undoubtedly wrapping up as a year to put climate change and sustainability on the map and make the world “Greta” again, why not kick off 2020 with the resolve to give back a little?

Ways to Foster Employee Engagement

10 Great Ways to Foster Authentic Employee Engagement from reducing stress to getting feedback.

Mental Health Research

A Recognize-funded study into the correlation between low sense of appreciation and issues with mental health.

Employee Recognition Stats for Healthcare

A look into nurse burn out and the effects of recognition within health industry, such as hospitals or medical technology fields.

Employee Recognition Report

Research into what employees want in an employee recognition and from their company.

Human Resource Trends for 2019

Where HR is going in 2019 and a look back at 2018 events. Recognize pretended more technology and a marrying of IT and HR.

Employee Recognition Trends for 2019

At look back at 2018 and what the road ahead in 2019 for trends in employee recognition.

Employee Recognition Ideas

An ever growing list of quotes, ideas, book suggestions within over 100 ideas to recognize and reward your employees.

Employee Recognition App Guide

Learn from the big guys. Recognize took RFPs on employee recognition from Fortune 500 companies and compiled what they care about into this article.

Habits of Top HR Managers

15 creative ways to be a great human resources professional.

Company Holiday Party & Year-End Staff Bonus Guide

Learn what staff really want from employee benefits for holiday parties and end of year bonuses.

Employee Recognition and Health in the Workplace

Employee recognition doesn’t only help promote productivity in the office; it also improves the overall health and well-being of your workers.

Distributed Workforce Infographic 2013

See the tools and trends of working from home and distributed workforces.

Employee Appreciation Day: 8 Ideas Your Staff Will Love

Employee Appreciation Day takes place on the first Friday of every March, and was created as a way to show recognition and appreciation for all the hard work employees do throughout the year.

What Men Can Do To Prevent Workplace Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment has dominated headlines in recent weeks, with the Harvey Weinstein exposé closely followed by revelations about Kevin Spacey and Louis C.K. But workplace sexual harassment isn’t limited to Hollywood.

Top 10 employee engagement tips on Facebook Workplace

Facebook Workplace is a communication and productivity tool for businesses. It utilizes the great parts of Facebook to help companies work together more effectively. Take a look at the 10 creative ways to engage employees on Facebook Workplace.

The State of People Analytics Stats

9% of companies use predictive analytics or big data to analyze people trends. See more top stats.

5 Critical Areas for IT Adoption of Employee Recognition

You’ve decided that your company deserves a modern recognition program. You’ve received buy-in from your executive leadership. The last hurdle to pass is approval from IT.

16 Must-Answer Employee Engagement Questions for Your Staff

When was the last time you or your HR initiated an employee engagement survey at your company? In Recognize, we provide a way to ask these questions when you start the program and six months later.

14 Employee Recognition Tips and Trends of 2017

From forward-thinking companies from all over the world, this is what we see as trends, advice, and tips for employee recognition and employee rewards.

Seven Must-Know Types of Employee Rewards

How do you pick the best types of employee rewards for your company? There are numerous methods of praising staff. Each and every company’s situation is unique, and what might work for one doesn’t necessarily have to work for another. To try and help you determine the best way to motivate your workforce, we have sought to compile some employee rewards for you to consider. Here are seven of them.