Recognize the Value and Work of Your Small Enterprise IT Team
How to say thank you to your team who may often feel that they are working a thankless job.
- Understanding each unique employee’s motivators and engagement drivers.
- Using recognition tactics that incentivize staff behavior and performance that benefits the department and broader organization.
- Creating non-disruptive and cost-efficient recognition techniques.
- Laying the foundation for a peer-to-peer recognition culture.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Employees prefer non-cash rewards or thoughtful acts of recognition over cash rewards.
- Small genuine gestures of recognition from a manager or peer can be the most impactful recognition tactic for most employees.
Impact and Result
- Employees become more motivated, proactive, and committed.
- Staff sees peers and peer behavior that they wish to emulate.
- Improved and more frequent acts of recognition help to improve the culture of the IT department.
Workshop: Recognize the Value and Work of Your Small Enterprise IT Team
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Build Your Recognition Program
The Purpose
- Understand the keys to a successful recognition program.
- Identify pains related to recognition and define tactics to mitigate these pains.
- Define key behaviors to recognize.
- Determine right-sized recognition tactics to recognize positive behaviors.
- Build recognition toolkits to make recognition easy.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Defined program vision statement.
- Identified metrics.
- Clearly defined behaviors that you will recognize.
- Determined recognition tactics.
- A personalized recognition toolkit to provide to management.
Activities
Outputs
Identify recognition characteristics.
- Identify current pains.
Build recognition vision statement.
- Recognition Vision Statement
Analyze current state.
Define key metrics.
- Program Metrics
Determine recognition behaviors.
Right-size tactics.
- Recognition Handbook
Build recognition toolkit.
- Recognition Toolkit
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We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.
What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Get the help you need in this 1-phase advisory process. You'll receive 2 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
- Call 1: Create a recognition plan
- Discuss the IT team’s current dynamics, general engagement, and current recognition techniques.
- Learn about leading practices and techniques for engaging and recognizing employees.
- Discuss department goals and staff behaviors that you want to encourage.
- Brainstorm staff recognition and engagement techniques.
- Call 2: Develop how to sustain and expand your recognition plan
- Reflect on new recognition tactics and their impact on staff engagement and productivity.
- Discuss how to maintain momentum for your recognition techniques and ingrain it into your team’s culture.
- Explore the option of planning a larger IT engagement initiative.