How to Use Automated Employee Gifting in 2021 to Delight and Motivate

With the new year just around the corner, most of us are looking to get past 2020 and waiting to see how 2021 will unfold. 2020 was an extremely challenging year for everyone, and it is unlikely that anyone was spared from the pandemic’s effects. Businesses were hit hard, and the ones whose lives were most impacted were the employees.

There is renewed hope that 2021 will show us better days. As an organization, how would you motivate your employees to brace for a brand new year? A great way to achieve this is corporate gifting.

New year gifts for your employees can delight them and work as an effective motivational tool as well. Here are some reasons why employee gifting is crucial.

The Importance of Employee Gifting

Employee gifting impacts retention, and it is an investment worth making. Here are some reasons why organizations must pay close attention to the employee gifting process.

To Make an Employee Feel Valued

One of the most crucial factors that affect employee morale is an employee’s perspective of the organization. It’s about what an employee feels towards the organization. To stay motivated and to create a thriving workplace, employees must feel valued at work. It is especially crucial that employees must feel appreciated during testing times and recognized for working hard and doing a good job.

To Make Employees Feel Connected to the Organization

When employees receive a thoughtful gift, it creates a memorable experience and leaves a lasting impression on their minds. An employee feels connected to the company and is likely to work there for a longer time. Whether it is to show appreciation or gratitude, gift-giving must not seem like an obligation. It must be a sincere effort to recognize the hard work of employees.

To Motivate Employees

Are you looking for that vital element that can unravel the code to superior customer service? The answer is simple – keep your employees happy.

The employees of an organization have a huge role to play in what your customers think and feel about your company. Unless your employees are happy, they will not feel motivated enough to provide quality service to your customers and prospects.

Choosing the right gifts especially for junior employees is vital as it can play a significant role in improving satisfaction and loyalty. In the long term perspective, it is this very talent that will work up the ranks and determine the future of your organization. That’s why selecting memorable corporate gifts for employees is essential.

To Think Beyond Company Swag

Gifts with your company logo can be a great opportunity to showcase your branding, however, it can lack a personal touch. Sometimes employees may even find it disappointing to receive generic company swag, thus defeating the purpose of joyful employee gifting.

Company merchandise like coffee mugs, tote bags, or gift cards might not be ideal, quality gifts for personal occasions like birthdays. Organizations must look beyond company swag to improve their employee gifting strategies. An employee must feel special that the gift was chosen specially, just for them.

To Strengthen Connections

The relationship between employers and employees may seem tricky to understand, but this isn’t entirely true. To break it down, it comes down to a human level and the bonds you create. A gift must be thoughtful and feel personal to strengthen the connection between the leadership and the workforce.

How Eva Makes Employee Gifting Easy

So you have a large company with a few hundred employees or maybe more. Here are some key questions you would have to tackle in the employee gifting process.

• What steps would you take to make the employee gifting process as easy as possible?

• Who would be in charge of choosing the perfect gifts that are well-suited to every recipient?

• How would you take care of the logistics of attractive packaging and timely delivery?

• How will you ensure that no recipient receives the same gift again?

Does all this seem impossible to achieve? Not anymore. With Eva, the gifting process becomes delightful for both the gifter and the recipient.

All about Eva Gifting Assistant

How to Use Eva

• The gifter would need to log in to Eva Gifting Assistant.

• Then enter the details about the recipient and how much the gifter would like to spend.

• Lastly, email the link generated by Eva to the recipient.

How Eva Works

• When the recipient clicks on the link, Eva will chat with them to understand their preferences and likes.

• Depending on the information provided by the recipient, Eva will choose the best gift among a range of options.

• Eva will ensure the gift is packaged beautifully and delivered to the recipient with an optional personalized handwritten note.

Eva Gifting Assistant brings a fantastic level of automation to the gifting process while keeping it personalized for every recipient. Here’s how Eva makes employee gifting easy.

• Instead of depending on HR teams, marketing or admin, Eva automates employee gifting. The model is quick, efficient, and scalable to suit every organization and workforce’s unique needs.

• Eva handles all selection, packaging, and delivery-related logistics. With an automated system in place, your employees are not using precious work hours to select and keep track of employee gifting.

• An automated system also helps gain valuable insights into data like employee birthdays, professional milestones, preferences, etc.

• Eva’s gifting catalog is updated using data from Google gifts trends and Eva’s gift ratings. The algorithm analyzes the data and regularly updates the gifting process. Doing so ensures that the recipient will always get to choose from the latest and in-trend gift options.

• One of the biggest advantages of using Eva is the gifter can choose the level of automation they wish to incorporate into the employee gifting process. The process can be fully or partially automated. Since the process is completely customizable, you can decide how much control to have in choosing personalized gifts for the employees.

• With Eva, you don’t need to get bogged down by large employee databases or email lists. You can link your CRM or email database to Eva and let Eva pick out a personalized gift for every recipient.

Keeping track of choosing a thoughtful gift for each employee, and handling delivery and logistic related tasks are nothing short of a mammoth task. With Eva, every recipient will always receive a unique, meaningful gift that they like, guaranteed.

Your employees are the backbone of your company, and it’s impossible to achieve success without them. The new year is a great time to show employee recognition and employee appreciation. Employee gifts can encourage, motivate, and inspire a workforce to achieve amazing results. Begin the new year on a high note and get your gifting game on point with Eva.

To know more about Eva and how to automate your employee gifting process with minimal effort, take the free Eva demo today!