Employee Appreciation Day is March 2, 2012, so you have one month to plan a celebration for your team. If you’re looking for theme ideas, register for our upcoming Recognition TV webisode. Lindsay, Baudville Product Manager, will share her favorite Employee Appreciation Day themes in a video broadcast on Wednesday, February 15. She’ll probably share her picks for Employee Appreciation Day gifts this year, too. Don’t miss it!

Employee Appreciation Day is all about your employees. Celebrating the value they bring to your organization as individuals is a great way to increase employee engagement, commitment, and motivation.

Does this title sound familiar? Gary Chapman, the author of "The Five Love Languages," recently partnered with Dr. Paul White to create a workplace application of his popular relationship book. The new book, just released in August, dives into the value and benefit of making employees, volunteers, and members of your organization feel appreciated. (Disclosure: I was given an advanced copy of the book to review.) 

Award certificates are a popular way to express appreciation or recognize accomplishments. At Baudville, we frequently give certificates to winners of games or contests, and use award certificates in our formal recognition programs. 

With June right around the corner, certificates are also a great way to give end of the school year appreciation to teachers, volunteers, school staff, and students. To create and present memorable award certificates, follow these five award certificate tips. 

Happy Administrative Professional’s Day! You did know it was today, right? And you have something very sincere and personal planned to recognize your organization’s administrative professional, right? 

If not, we have you covered. Here are five quick, last minute ways you can recognize your administrative professional today. 

Thank you for joining me for today's Recognition TV webisode!  You can watch the complete recorded webisode with all my Employee Appreciation Day ideas on Baudville.com or on Baudville’s Facebook page. Several of my tips, ideas, and best practices are below, but I recommend you watch the entire video (it’s only about 15 minutes!) to catch everything. Now get ready! This is a long post with lots of info for you! 

Spring is a popular time for appreciation events, and both National Volunteer Week and Administrative Professionals Week are coming up in April! National Volunteer Week is April 10-16 and Administrative Professionals Week is April 204-30.