Affirmation, of course. Are you giving enough feedback, or are you leaving your employees starving for it? 

Look around most workspaces. Most likely you’ll see certificates hung on the walls, awards decorating desktops, and notes pinned up on cubicle walls—all representing a proud moment for the person displaying it.

As an HR professional, how many times have you been asked about your company’s culture by an interviewee? Do you then glow with pride over its ever-present attitude of gratitude? Or do you glow with something a little more like flushed embarrassment? It hurts when you feel like you’re the salesperson of a not-so-terrific product. Don’t give up, Billy Mays, grassroots gratitude is going to make your company worth way more than 3 payments of $19.95! Here’s how:

If International Day of Awesomeness isn’t something to celebrate, then I don’t know what is.  Rumor has it, this quirky little holiday was created in honor of Chuck Norris’ birthday, but I’m choosing to believe it began because it’s the day our brilliant Marketing Coordinator, Audrey was born ( birthdays are kind of a big deal around here). 

In the beginning of 2015, we made six “Human Resource Resolutions” to increase employee engagement, build stronger teams, celebrate everyone, work on event participation and planning, recruit top talent, and reduce employee turnover. If you missed it, we took a deep-dive into what matters in key areas to jumpstart your new year in the workplace from an HR standpoint. Time flies! Now that we’re already a week in to 2016, it’s likely that you’ve made some resolutions for this year, too! And, if you haven’t, we’d encourage the resolutions above, or a simpler, broader, resolution: a Recognition Resolution!