Gifting has been a part of our civilization for centuries now. We live to give gifts to our friends, employees and any other person who has been good to us and worked for us sincerely. Gifting is a nice way to say thanks or expressing your gratitude to somebody. It sure feels good to pick gifts and hand them over to the recipient who greets you with a broad smile in reply. The same culture is now widely found in the corporate organizations as well. And we can find clients and bosses picking gifts for employees and handing them over with a few words of appreciation in the service awards ceremony.

When it comes to choosing service awards gifts most of us like to go for products which represent the company in some form or the other. Some of us choose t-shirts which have the company logo printed on them or we pick coffee mugs with again the logo shining on a side. But do you really think that these gifts make any difference to your employees? Or do they make them proud of their achievements when they look at their gifts? T-shirts, Mugs are some of the gifts that lie useless in the home of the recipients and are not at all appealing hence gifts which entice your employees should be ones chosen by you.

Closing gifts are relatively new in trend too and they are given when you finalize a deal with you client. They are used especially in the real estate business when you make your client buy a new house at a brand location. When the deal is final and your customer has made the purchase you can send closing gifts to him or her and build long term relations with them. It also helps you in increasing your positive reputation and spreading the word about how you tackle your clients.

The gifts that you choose for the service awards or as closing gifts should be useful even though they can be inexpensive. Imagine, sending a bunch of printed T-shirts or a crockery set with your company logo embedded on it. It does not even appeal to the customers let alone the gifts being used by them. Hence picking gifts that appeal to your senses is a fine way to check whether they would be like by your clients, boss or employees or not. So be it the closing gifts or the recognition award, choose them wisely.

Author's Bio: 

The author writes a great deal on how to manage the service awards function. He also has varied views on choosing the closing gifts.