John Schaefer, Schaefer Recognition Group

John Schaefer is an Employee Recognition Expert with over 30 years of experience helping organizations deveop specific, measurable and effective recognition programs to get the most from their investments in people. The goal is to help leadership acknowledge and validate every employee allowing them each to thrive and contribute the best of their ability.

The key to effective employee recognition is  to understand the secret of "Making it Real".  John defines this as communicating in a way that is consistent, believable, honest and lets people know that you value them as a person first and a worker second.  When that happens, they like and trust you and automatically ship to wanting to help "their" company be more successful.  When you build a team that likes and trusts their leaders, it leads to lower turnover, higher morale and creates a culture that people don't want to leave. It also powerfully impacts profits and sustains a strong bottom line.  It's not hard and can be learned.