135A Good Sign

Recognition implies sending positive messages to employees for excellent work, and one proven way to send any message is with an interior sign. These signs identify your employees by name, followed by personalized laudatory comments about their accomplishments or milestones.

One option is the old-fashioned sign with slots where you insert individual letters to spell out an employee’s name and your words of praise. However, these signs are becoming woefully outdated.

A better option is a light-emitting diode (LED) sign. These are TV monitors or LED displays where your messages of recognition can appear statically or they can scroll across the sign, much like the stock tickertape. You can easily create personalized messages with ...

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