TEAM BUILDING 157. Gift Gifted Gift-Certificates Hand out gift certificates for a job well done... with the caveat that the gift certificate can’t be used by the recipient but by a coworker they think was instrumental in helping them. 1 Why does this work? 1. Organizations that give regular thanks for their employees outperform those that don’t. 2. Companies with a “recognition–rich–culture” have a 31% lower voluntary turnover rate. 3. Top–down recognition is seen as political; peer-to- peer recognition feels more meaningful. 1 See Secret of Employee Recognition. 89