By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Recognition of one’s peers can be daunting at first, but these steps can help employees build their skill and competency to achieve greater benefits. One of the challenges of implementing a social recognition solution is developing employees’ capacity and comfort around peer-to-peer aspects.  Especially where recognition has traditionally or predominantly been a top-down process, it can be difficult for all employees to know exactly where to begin when recognizing the contributions of their peers. Align personal impact to organizational values. When MORE >>

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Research suggests that supporting others is related to greater energy and well-being. By enhancing meaningfulness, employees and employers can amplify these benefits. potential pitfall of engagement initiatives is to overemphasize the role that companies have in motivating employee performance, while minimizing the active role that employees often take in creating and directing their experiences at work. Create meaningfulness at work by helping and recognizing others Click To Tweet. How did they get more energy from doing more at the office? MORE >>

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! — There are people at work whose contributions we might miss. culture of recognition helps to make sure we don’t. came across a recent New York Times Corner Office article with Walt Bettinger. He is the CEO of the Charles Schwab Corporation and shared a powerful lesson he learned as an undergraduate student. He was enrolled in a business course in his senior year and was laser-focused on maintaining a perfect grade point average. It all came down to the final exam, for which he spent a great deal of time studying and memorizing. MORE >>

by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Peers see and understand more of their colleagues’ contributions, enabling them to offer more support. Work/life balance is a myth. could say that in today’s hyper-connected world, work comes home with us far more easily than it did 20 or even 10 years ago. And that would be true. But it’s no less true that our “life” also comes to work with us. Worries about our sick children, concern over a fight with a spouse the night before, fear over making ends meet on a tight budget – all can color how we approach our work and how we treat our colleagues. MORE >>

by Derek Irvine. Recognize This! — For organizations struggling to develop an integrated front, a culture of values-based social recognition presents a unique path forward. There’s an interesting post over at strategy+business that takes a look at the barriers that large companies have in achieving one deceptively simple goal: becoming truly integrated across geographies, product lines, and functions. The post points to three basic issues that get in the way: visibility, complexity, and trust. Employees at far-flung locations might not get the memo about the new collaboration summits. MORE >>