151 Quick Ideas to Recognize and Reward Employees

11E-mail for Excellence

Another highly effective way to spell out credit and recognition for an employee is to send an e-mail that waxes glowingly over his or her accomplishment. The first step in writing this is to use upbeat language in the subject line, such as “Excellent Work!” or “Congratulations!”

The next step is to put the employee’s name before any of the text you write. The tendency with office e-mail is to simply write a message, and this is fine for most online business communication, but not for a note of recognition.

A similar point applies to the end of this laudatory message. Before you hit “Send,” be sure to include your name. Even though most business e-mail ends with the last sentence of the message, that is not enough for ...