Guide to
Employee Service Award Programs:
Table of Contents

Welcome to our comprehensive Guide to Employee Service Awards. This guide, available both online and as a downloadable PDF, is designed to help you successfully plan, budget, implement, and manage an effective employee service awards program.

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Our online version allows you to easily navigate through each key aspect of Employee Service Recognition. Use the Next and Previous buttons to read through the guide, or jump directly to specific topics using the table of contents shown below to see just the topics of interest.

We hope these resources provide valuable insights to enhance your recognition programs. For more information or personalized assistance, contact Select-Your-Gift. We’re here to help you create a meaningful and rewarding employee service awards program.

Guide Contents

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• Manager's Guide to Employee Service Awards (Introduction to this Guide)
• What are service awards (overview, description / definition)
• History of recognizing employees for their service.
• Value and importance of service recognition.
• Trends in Employee Service recognition - frequency, type of gifts.
• Categories of service milestones today.
• EARLY service recognition, definition & importance.
• On-boarding new employees.
• Industry-standard service milestones, 5-Yr increments.
• Quarter Century: special recognition for 25 year service anniversaries.
• Retirement recognition: awards and ideas to make it special.
• Service Award ideas: give employees what they want and will use.
• Steps to get started with your service recognition program.
• Catching-up: consider any missed service anniversaries
• Define the awards for each of your defined service milestones.
• Budget: Setting a budget for your new Service Award program.
• Presenting service recognition awards to employees.
• Customizing options to enhance Service Award Packets.
• Gift-of-Choice Awards: How they work and why employees prefer them.
• First step to getting your Employee Service Award program started.

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