I’ve been working at Baudville for more than six and a half years, and, the other day, I realized something: gradually, I’m learning to be a better person. I’m not saying I was a complete barbarian “Before Baudville,” but I am definitely improved “After Baudville.” How did this happen? Did I simply mature? Unlikely. No, I’m pretty sure it’s all this exposure I’ve had to the practice of recognition and culture building. Here are some of changes I’ve noticed:

This week we celebrated our Digital Marketing Manager, Kim’s, birthday! I am reminded every time we celebrate a birthday here at the ‘ville of how important and EASY it is to make our co-workers feel the love on their special day. Here are your quick ABCs for how to make your next employee’s or co-worker’s birthday sing! We've got a list A-Z to help you make workplace birthdays a blast for everyone:

It's 8:55 am, I have a 9 am deadline, and all I have to do is press print...then BAM! It happens. Everything is still... My computer is frozen. I say a prayer that I hit save, or somehow the computer will recover all of my files. I know the next step is the classic CTRL+ALT+DELETE... Nope. It's time to restart. We've all been there! Luckily we have a great IT staff at the 'ville, and I have learned to not freak out..too much, because they can fix it!

Recognition ecards are great for recognizing employees who work different shifts or at offsite locations and popular with many people because they find it easier to type a recognition message to a co-worker than write a handwritten note. For effective everyday recognition, do both! 

Usually our Digital Marketing Coordinator, Kaleigh is busy blogging or clogging your social feed, but we caught her in the act - the act of recognition that is! Our favorite thing to do around the 'Ville is to recognize each other on a job well done. And that's exactly what Kaleigh did to say thanks to a fellow co-worker last week.