Staff Happy?

[Guest]

How do you reward yours?

Edited May 2, 2013 by Guest

[AnonyMouse_21510]

BISCUITS!.......not in front of the children I must add.

 

It is however the local elections today that have made my staff happy (closed our nursery as the village hall is a polling station).....and it's a beautiful day.....I'm happy!

[AnonyMouse_44288]

Easter egg at Easter, Xmas meal, and a gift in summer (if they've deserved it) ?

[AnonyMouse_3139]

Christmas bonus of a £20 voucher or one year it was a hamper. Nothing else unfortuately funds are always too tight.

[AnonyMouse_11396]

I buy them all a gift at the end of the academic year, and at Christmas.

The committee try to give them a Christmas bonus if funds allow.

Also cream cakes go down well at our staff meetings.

[AnonyMouse_2418]

I bake for mine - every couple of weeks, they like it so much they even bought me a Mary Berry recipe book for my birthday a few years back for some new ideas :1b

[Guest]

staff appreciation board.....

 

 

e.g 'thankyou for doing such and such...' 'taking that such and such really helped etc'

[AnonyMouse_3139]

I like the staff appreciation board idea :1b

I cant bake

[Guest]

chrismas dinner and dance with limo

summer day trip to spa ( i hire a conference room and we do transfer forms first)

but mostly lots of smiles, thank yous and well dones

[AnonyMouse_19762]

but mostly lots of smiles, thank yous and well dones

 

That's what I rely on, pleasant working conditions/atmosphere go a long way - I also pay them as much as I possibly can - they are privy to the income and outgoings associated with running our pre-school........and that's it really we think of it as 'our' pre-school.......

 

Then of course there are pressies at Christmas and a little extra in pay whenever I can manage it :1b

[AnonyMouse_3735]

for me it was listening to them, taking their thoughts on board and trying new things out.. discussion before changes... consulting them... involving staff with the running of the group.. not excluding them from decisions... trying their ideas out.. giving reasons for changes, and being flexible..

 

Paying as much as we could.. .letting them know the financial side so they knew the reason for the wages we could afford,,

 

and lots of thank you, please and help!

 

I did buy a small gift for all at Christmas.. a personal gift not the setting.. in Santa's sack ..

 

Summer term we had a girls night in.. staff member allowed us to use their home for this.. often one who would have needed a babysitter to go out.. a takeaway delivered, all donated a bit each month to the pot... as much as they could afford.. ( I topped it up if we needed to) and all brought a bottle.. usually finished about 4am!

 

other than that it was supporting each other all the time..

[AnonyMouse_39998]

chrismas dinner and dance with limo

summer day trip to spa ( i hire a conference room and we do transfer forms first)

but mostly lots of smiles, thank yous and well dones

omg! spa? limo? soooo jealous ! lol