Appreciation on Presentation of Awards or Bonuses
Guidelines and Alternate Phrases
State what the award or bonus is.
Elaborate specifically on what the person has done to earn the award or praise.
We appreciate the 60-hour weeks you gave to the project.
We know you were “on call” for 24 hours a day for what must have seemed like an eternity to you. But then, that’s the kind of dedication you always bring to such assignments.
No detail was too small, but what you knew exactly who was doing what, when, and where. Such care for the project’s outcome is just something you can’t pay for. Your dedication to the task is so much more than we can have ever hoped for.
Express what the award or bonus means in symbolic terms.
This award signifies our confidence in you as the leading spokesman for our organization, the pace-setter for us to follow.
Your championing our cause gives credibility and focus to the pressing issues at hand.
This bonus is a token of the kind of future we think you have with the company.
Be warm, informal, and sincere.
Again, thanks for your efforts.
Thank you for giving us your very best effort—with overwhelming success.
You gave it your best shot—and it was right on target.
My sincerest appreciation and admiration.
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