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Subscription Recognition

It is quite rewarding for your employees to see that you are genuinely interested in their growth, development, and success, and one way for them to literally grasp your commitment in these areas is to give them a subscription to a magazine or journal that relates to their job responsibilities and objectives.

The subscription should be in the employee’s name because this clearly focuses the recognition on the named individual. This can be a source of additional recognition if the employee then forwards the magazine to others who may be interested in one or more of the articles.

The recognition from the subscription can be further compounded if you let the employee know you would be glad to set up a departmental brown-bag lunch if there is an article he or she would like to discuss. The offer to run this type of discussion is rewarding in and of itself, and actually leading such a session offers additional opportunities for recognition.