The Appreciation Initiative is simple...
It's all about YOU and YOUR team!
It's all about you and your leadership team developing a customized Appreciation Initiative to becoming a Premier Employer by developing your current employees and attracting top-performers! Yes, it's all about YOU choosing to move your business from good to great through investing inside YOUR box.
Why would you develop and implement this simple yet powerful initiative which can create peaceful productivity in your workplace? Wouldn't you appreciate it if you were considered an investment? Wouldn't you appreciate it if your organization and its leaders recognized the outstanding work you have delivered? Would you appreciate it if you were able to work in a place where all employees were earnest and internally motivated to do a wonderful job and had a positive attitude? Well, I am betting that you and many others are saying, "YES!" to this!
Brilliant Breakthroughs exists to serve organizations and business leaders in remembering how to appreciate what is already within their own box. Yes, there was a trend to "look outside of the box" and while experiencing the benefits of this what was in the box has been devalued. Now, it's time to get organizations to focus on the balance of valuing (a) what is outside of the box to assist it and (b) what is in the box to strengthen it! Which one do you think you have greater control over? Which one do you think you can generate a greater impact with your efforts? It's the inside of the box! And there are so many more simple tools available today to do this cost effectively.
Let's work with the concept of a tree. Equate a tree to your business. If your business is a tree, what do you see? Is your tree big, sturdy, and yielding? Does it provide enough shade for everyone? Does it continue to produce greater yields each season? Did you plant it in nurturing soil? Do you water it routinely? Do you fertilize it proactively? Do you rake the leaves when it is time? Have you been able to picnic under your tree lately?
The Appreciation Initiative is about building your organization to become a healthy tree- you to become an Employer of Choice. Notice how the image of our Appreciation Initiative Tree is vibrant and flourishing? Isn't that the part of the tree which customers, suppliers, and stakeholders notice? Amazing isn't it that the tree is admired and respected for what people see- its output. Yet, the most important part of the tree is what no one can see, the roots where all the investment needs to incur to assure a favorable yield. Where are you investing? In what people see, or what matters? This is a trick question, because if you invest in the roots (your human asset) above the surface your tree (organization) will be more noticeable than others (Employer of Choice)!
Did you notice that the roots of the Appreciation Initiative Tree are boxed in? Yes, this is intentional. If you were to keep your focus within YOUR box and invest appropriately within YOUR box, every branch of your tree would be glistening with leaves and a bountiful harvest. A tree is organic, just as your organization is organic. It needs to tended to by the best caregivers (employees). Leadership and management have the opportunity to determine the best care for YOUR tree and make sure that each of the caregivers has all the resources available to them to tend to YOUR tree effectively.
The Appreciation Initiative Tree is synonymous for your organization. If this concept was easy to get your head around, take it one step further and consider each employee a tree within the forest of YOUR business. Over the past 10 years, American businesses became proficient at this concept as it relates to suppliers. Now, let's take that and apply it WITHIN your box. Do the trees in your forest get all the tending to that they require? If you say YES! congrats to you- now go ask them and see what they say. If you say YIKES! then you are in luck- you can start taking action in simple and multi-potent ways to develop a super tree and become a Premier Employer.
Oh, why do you need to become an Employer of Choice? Demographics are changing. By 2050 more than 70% of the workforce will be free-agents- planting their roots where ever they feel they will be most appreciated! What about now? The dynamics of the workplace are changing considerably:
research reveals: 75% of people wish they had a different job
Gallup Poll states: "80% of people will never use their greatest gifts at work"
baby boomers are leaving the workplace
it costs 24 times an employee's base salary to replace them (Topgrading, 2005)
younger generations want more flexibility
budgets for development are marginal
your top-performers are getting burnt-out
you are experiencing higher turn-over rates
your culture needs a boost
your company image needs a facelift
are you able to attract talent so you can keep the doors open for 20 more years?
Hopefully, you are beginning to say, "Aha, this Appreciation Initiative stuff is really important!" You are absolutely right and there is plenty of research to validate it!
Gaining a preferred status of Employer of Choice is valuable. So now I'm sure you are wondering what next? Well, the simple answer is contact strategist Maggie to discuss building a bridge from where you are now to where you want to go with YOUR Appreciation Initiative. The longer answer is there is a process. The process assists YOU in developing your certainty and clarity so you can present this in a manner which is multi-potent and understood by all. See for yourself...
The Appreciation Initiative Process:
Step 1: REALITY CHECK (Looking at YOUR landscape)
Define the objective of YOUR Appreciation Initiative
Assess the reality of your current initiative or efforts
Step 2: REVIEW YOUR BUSINESS (YOUR Branches, Leaves, Fruit)
Vision, Mission, and Core Values Assessment
Presence in YOUR workplace
Instilled within YOUR employees
Possible subtle and powerful re-alignments
Step 3: EFFECTIVENESS EXPLORATION (YOUR Roots)
Leadership Team, Management Team, Top-Performers, & Individuals
Needs Assessment of Effectiveness
Needs Assessment of Appreciation
Step 4: CULTIVATING YOUR CUSTOMIZED APPRECIATION INITIATIVE
Assess your employee's needs, interests, and values
Develop offerings to meet their interests
Who is Spearheading YOUR Appreciation Initiative?
Define Performance Standards for Appreciation Rewards
Assess necessary resources for implementation
STEP 5: ROLL-OUT YOUR CUSTOMIZED APPRECIATION INITIATIVE
Develop Roll-Out Introduction (it should express Appreciation)
Prepare to Express Appreciation to YOUR employees
Conduct Roll- Out and get immediate Feedback
STEP 6: ACTIVATION OF YOUR CUSTOMIZED APPRECIATION INITIATIVE
Deliver Appreciation Rewards in timely manner
Analyze ROI (both soft and hard dollars) YOUR box*
* Due to the customization of YOUR Appreciation Initiative, the investment within YOUR box will vary, as will the development process.
Needing ideas of what to do to express your Appreciation to YOUR roots?
To supplement your organization's Customized Appreciation Initiatives, Brilliant Breakthroughs has developed a Leadership Appreciation Initiative Seminar Get-Away for you to offer to yourself or any of your employees for any type of recognition you sense is appropriate. The Seminar Get-Away is a modestly priced all inclusive 5 day event in a Premier 4 Diamond Resort Destination. The Leadership Appreciation Initiative is a low-tech, high touch seminar balanced with "play" (e.g., golf, fly-fishing, horseback riding, spa, etc.) as a collective, and individually. Please see Seminar Get-Aways Still Accepting Reservations for this unique offering.
See FREE List of 33 Appreciation Ideas courtesy of Brilliant Breakthroughs.
To discuss your thoughts or questions, please contact Strategist Maggie (link on the left sidebar for your easy access).
