01/15/2024
Noting that employees are twice as likely to leave a job in the month of their workplace anniversary, author Joi makes the case—and provides a comprehensive plan—for how businesses can and should celebrate their employees with work anniversaries ... and how such anniversaries “simultaneously improve both employee morale and performance,” improve team effectiveness, help “steer your organization’s culture in the direction you want it to go,” and more. Organized into three parts, this upbeat resource, Joi’s debut, highlights why it is important to incorporate work anniversaries into the schedule, the roles of various departments and how they can contribute, and detailed steps on how to create work anniversary celebrations that will "create feelings of belonging for all employees" and “triumph over workplace anniversary mediocrity.”
While Joi’s focus is on practical, original steps to organize and perform work anniversary celebrations, the broader theme is the creation or improvement of healthy, “intentional” workplace culture, especially through demonstrating that employees are valued, appreciated, and remembered for their work. "Work anniversaries can play a significant role in helping you craft an intentional workplace culture," Joi writes. Joi likens work anniversaries to birthdays, with the distinction that work anniversaries are to be celebrated inside of the workplace, while birthdays are personal. Touching on the importance of celebrating both in-person and remote employees, the nuts and bolts of how much to spend and how elaborate to get, and the value of framed certificates and other acknowledgements of employees’ contributions, Inspiring Work Anniversaries makes a compelling, positive case for the power of celebrating employee milestones.
A wealth of clear-eyed advice will help avoid awkward scenarios and ensure celebrations for a host of different types of employees resonate, including guidance for honoring remote employees, writing celebratory speeches, and navigating limited budgets. Business leaders looking for a simple way to acknowledge their employees and curate actionable positivity into their workplace culture will find the ideas and advice here inspiring and easy to implement.
Takeaway: The power and practicalities of celebrating employee anniversaries.
Comparable Titles: Donna Cutting's Employees First, Cindy Ventrice's Make Their Day!.
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