April 25th is just around the corner and you've no idea what you are going to do to celebrate, honor and reward your business and clinical staff. Taking care of your team is just as important as taking care of your patients. The sky is really the limit and the ideas below are worth your consideration.
You can reward them BIG or reward them small! It's your call! I'd go for BIG if I were in your position. It would not matter how horrible "the numbers" have been. You haven't lost your trousers and 'they' shouldn't suffer. Many times an employer will base a reward on a "what have you done for me lately" mentality, instead of "they've stayed here with me through turnover after turnover" mentality. An incentive is oftentimes based on the number of starts instead of a team who is all "heart" and puts up with the many moods of their employer. If either of these makes you squirm, then great. Go BIG !
A few BIG ideas for you to consider:
Arrange for your team to have the day off . . . WITH pay!
Give each team member 1 extra vacation day!
Arrange for your team to have the afternoon off . . . with pay, to do as they wish!
Take your team to lunch, shopping and then a movie, while still 'on the clock'!
Give each of your team members a $100 bill inside a handwritten "thank you" note and treat them to lunch.
Bring them breakfast, take them out to lunch and give them 2-Half day Off Passes to be taken at their discretion. Use seniority to determine when it's taken.
Treat the Administrative Team (Business staff) to a manicure and pedicure and lunch!
Treat the Clinical Team to a massage and lunch!
Limousine ride to lunch and a rose accompanies #7 and #8. All on company time!
Have lunch catered and give each member of your FANTASTIC team a Glamour Shots Makeover Certificate. If males on team, give them 2 sessions with a personal trainer!
These ideas aren't really so BIG , are they? They're deserved by the group of people who contribute to your quality of life and to the care of their pati ents. They deserve BIGGER and if you want to work on that, just give me or your consultant a call. We can begin plans for your Christmas Party or Administrative and Clinical Assistant's Day 2008!
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Avis Ward of AWard Consulting, LLC
