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Five ways to make work anniversaries meaningful for your employees and valuable for your organization
Learn about the top five low-effort and low-expense ways to acknowledge work anniversaries.
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Strengthening workplace culture through uniqueness
Think about broader, societal-level cultures. Think about one that you are especially drawn to. What is it about the culture that appeals to you? Whatever it is, it’s the parts that are different. What makes the culture unique is what makes it special — both in the broadest sense of the word culture and in workplace culture.
Career-focused one-on-ones on an employee’s work anniversary
Some organizations have a formal process for having conversations with employees about their careers, but many don’t. If yours doesn’t, setting up your own personal tradition of having a career-focused one-on-one conversation on each employee’s work anniversary can be really special.
Great work anniversaries are a team sport
Do you want amazing work anniversaries at your organization? Get more people involved!
The Quarter Century Club
Among the many unsung wonders of work anniversaries is the ability to improve interdepartmental cooperation. How, you ask? Through starting a Quarter Century Club!
CEOs and work anniversaries
Work anniversaries can help CEOs with two things: (1) more easily personally connect with front-line employees, and (2) reinforce the importance of things they care about.
Skip-level work anniversary conversations
Work anniversaries solve all of the skip-level conversation challenges — How do you choose who to talk to? How do you explain why? How do you bridge the divide in your roles? How do you resist the pull to postpone or cancel? How do you avoid that going-to-the-principal vibe?
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