Corporate Wellness Programs

The best worker recognition practices are often the simplest.  

Here’s one that’s lately been adopted at the publishing company where I work –  a progam called “See something good, say something good.”  It’s a way for personnel to bring positive attention to things that their peers, managers and the company’s different departments do well.

Precisely how it works –  the company provides colorful index cards, placing them conspicuously in a few commonly traveled areas in the building. When personnel and supervisors want to publically recognize someone else’s efforts, they are able to grab a card and fill it out. It takes very little time.

When the index card is filled out, the worker drops it into a wrapped box (there are two in the building).  The boxes are later accumulated and the cards displayed in a room the corporation uses periodically for meetings, presentations and quarterly worker appreciation events.

In order to build awareness and participation in “Say Something Good,” management put up fliers around the building, so people  from every department can see them, in addition to visitors and job applicants who’ve come in for interviews.

The wellness program, which was originally thought up by the head of our product advertising and marketing division, does not cost anything apart from the cost of the index cards and paper. There’s minimal administration time, and it takes workers only a moment or two to fill out a card on a fellow employee’s behalf.

But the return is tremendous, and the recognition possibilities are endless. It’s a good way to boost morale, encourage productivity and differentiate the organization culture from work environments where the negative things seem to get the lion’s share of the attention.