Understanding Recognition Challenges
At RD Custom Awards, we have partnered with numerous companies to help create effective employee recognition trophies and awards. During this process, we have identified a central problem. There is often a gap between what companies want recognition to accomplish and the actual outcomes.
Many recognition trophies and awards fail to achieve the objective of recognising the employee. When awards are not personalised or well-designed, they can also send the wrong message to employees. Instead of making employees feel valued as individuals, generic awards can make employees feel like they can get lost in the organisation or be replaceable. This is counter to these intended goals of providing a positive workplace culture.
Business Benefits of Strategic Recognition
Employee retention: Generic recognition awards often feel impersonal to high performers. If awards tend to look and feel the same for every department and every achievement, employees start to doubt whether management is truly aware of and actively values the work they are doing.
Return on investment: A significant amount is spent on recognition awards. Yet, long-term cultural impact is lost when awards are put into a cupboard instead of being honoured and celebrated.
Company image: Recognition awards often reflect the quality, time, and care of the organisation, providing an insightful reflection of company values/culture. Employees, clients, and those being recruited all take note of how an organisation celebrates, honours, and cares for its achievements.
Our Method for Recognition Success
RD Custom Awards believes that an effective recognition award involves a process that is more than just standard products:
Relevance and Customisation: The RD Custom Awards process works in tandem with organisations to determine their specific culture, values, and definitions of success. The awards we create reflect the organisation and the particular achievements being recognised.
Awards Intended for Display: Recipients often express strong pride when the awards they receive are on display as unique decoration in their office space. When co-workers and visitors ask about these unique awards, it offers an opportunity for the co-worker to discuss their individual success and the organisational culture naturally.
High Standards and Quality: Recognition awards should match the quality of the achievements they celebrate. We carefully select our production methods and materials to create pieces that retain their significance over time.
Working as Your Partner
We view ourselves as partners in our clients' recognition award requirements, not just suppliers of awards. Our team collaborates closely with HR professionals, management teams, and event coordinators to ensure that recognition awards align with and support the broader company's objectives.
We understand that every organisation has its own specific needs, budgets, and timelines. We aim to stay within those constraints to provide recognition awards that suit their budget and requirements.
How Custom Awards Solve Recognition Problems
We build custom-designed trophies to tackle the challenges of recognition that many organisations face:
Creating Real Value: The trophies we make are not just physical clones of past trophies; they are custom-designed trophies tailored to your branding, corporate colours, and design focus. So, every trophy represents a clearly historic accomplishment or achievement and, where involved, helps the person be personally acknowledged for their contributions to your organisation.
Creating Emotional Connections: The design is unique, featuring a distinctive shape and custom elements, ensuring that the trophy will not only be one of a kind but also evoke meaningful reminders of an achievement. It will also remind the organisation that it respected the exceptional achievement enough to acknowledge it. These are the meaningful personal and organisational connections that will last well after the ceremony.
Demonstrating Organisation Quality: High-quality materials and craftsmanship convey your organisation's values and high-quality recognition. Careful detailing reflects a standard of excellence and can help attract and retain talent.
Next Steps
If your organisation is currently evaluating its recognition process, there are many ways our unique trophy solutions can integrate with your existing programme. Our design team will work directly with you to understand your specific needs, budget, and timeframe, creating pieces of recognition that reflect the organisation's values and the worthy accomplishments being recognised.
At RD Custom Awards, we are passionate about designing recognition awards that are authentic to the intent of recognising achievement while also supporting a positive culture in the workplace.
Recognition, when meaningful and accompanied by custom-designed trophies, is an investment in both the personal satisfaction of individuals and the success of the organisation.
If you are interested in learning more about how we can approach a solution for your special recognition needs, we would appreciate the opportunity to hear from you to discuss the goals you have for your organisation.
