Top 10 Ways to Say Thanks To Your Small Business Staff At Christmas

Small business owners are busy people and there is little time for shopping, even for the family. Oftentimes the staff is neglected.  Here are some impractical, rude and maybe outrageous ideas to help you find that last minute staff gift.

#10 Send cards by mail, after Christmas suggesting they use the gift card enclosed to cash in on Boxing Week sales.  Tell them you heard the sales would be significant and thus the reason for the scroogie $10 card.

#9 Buy the smallest pot of poinsettia you can find and gift each employee.  Ask them to take good care of it until next year, when they are to bring it back to decorate the office.

#8 Engender good will with the neighbor down the street and offer to take the litter of kittens off their hands.  Bam! Buy a bag of litter and offer each of your staff a kitty and a bag of litter.

#7 Dollar Stores have great buys on candles.  Buy a red or green pillar candle and enclose a gift card with a link to a free download of “You Light up My Life.”

#6 Christmas is for the kids.  Offer to let yours come visit sometime between Christmas and New Years!

#5 Send an email to each staff member with a slide show of photos you have taken of them during the year.  It shows how attentive you have been at the most inopportune moments, and allows them to be truly "seen" by collegues.

#4Go all out!  Give them each a free week at the local fitness centre. You can pick the coupons up for free and maybe they will slim down and work harder in the new year.  You are so smart!

#3 Get personal.  Share homemade baking that has been given to you – just don’t mention where it came from.

#2 Be generous.  Find the free makeover section in the department store and make appointments for the women on your team.  Nothing says I love you like “you need a makeover!”

#1 THE #1 STAFF PRESENT – Go away on a great trip until Mid-January with your significant other.  Send postcards of great times, photos of hunky men or sexy women, the beach, the food, the pure relaxation of it all.  What better gift could you offer, than to go away so the staff can play?

To our Success,

Harmony Thiessen

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