Do you know the importance of having a recognition program for the people you lead?

If you don't, you will in 30 minutes.

This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 79.

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

Greetings from Orange County, California.

This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahovia.

This is a weekly show to help smart people

improve their communication and leadership skills.

And if you've been part of our community for any length of time, you know that I'm always open

to suggestions for ways that I can help you to improve your communication and leadership skills.

And this show today, and actually next week's show as well,

came by listener request.

One of our community members had reached out to me

and asked about employee recognition programs and said

we are putting one together but we don't know what we're doing and we would love

some advice on how to put together an employee recognition program and I

know just a tiny bit about this but I wanted to reach out and talk to someone who

really knows a lot about this and I'm so excited that I got to meet a new friend in the last few weeks

here Michelle Smith with O.C. Tanner. I'm going to introduce you to her in just a moment because

I sat down earlier this week with her to talk about the importance of having an employee recognition program.

Now here's the great thing, is Michelle was very kind to agree to not only join me for this episode but also to join me for the

episode next week so this week we're going to be looking at the importance of an

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