9 ways to show practice staff you appreciate them this holiday season

The holidays can be a pressure test for medical practices: year-end schedules, higher patient demand, PTO juggling and the kind of burnout that doesn’t disappear with a plate of cookies. The upside is that small, consistent signals of appreciation can go a long way, and research suggests many employees still aren’t getting them. A long-running Gallup analysis found only about one in three U.S. workers strongly agree they received recognition or praise for doing good work in the past week.

Here are nine holiday-season moves that work for real-world practices — especially when they’re specific, inclusive and tied to the day-to-day grind.