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For Organizations

The Gratitude Advantage Assessment

Make gratitude your competitive advantage, inside and out.

A done-with-you engagement that turns appreciation from a seasonal gesture into a measurable strategy for your people, your customers, or both.

Choose Your Starting Point

One path changes how your company feels on the inside. The other changes how it looks from the outside.

The process is the same. The outcomes are different. Start with your people, your customers, or both.

Inside

Your people

We map your employee journey, learn how your people prefer to be recognized, and build gratitude into every step of their experience at work.

Measured by

  • Employee satisfaction
  • Recognition that fits your people
  • Engagement and retention

Outside

Your customers

We map your customer journey and bring marketing, sales, technology, and accounting together to make gratitude part of every touchpoint.

Measured by

  • Reviews and referrals
  • Sales and spending per purchase
  • Repeat customers

Inside & Out

Both

Your people feel appreciated, and they pass it on. Gratitude becomes how your organization works, from the inside out.

Measured by

  • Everything on both paths, measured together

Why It Matters

Most organizations say thank you once a year. The most extraordinary ones do it every day, on purpose.

Inside · Your People

½ to 2×

an employee’s annual salary: the estimated cost of replacing one person who leaves

$16.1M

a year in turnover savings for a 10,000-person organization with a real culture of recognition

Outside · Your Customers

51%

more spending over a year from restaurant customers who received one thank-you email from the company’s president

25%+

more profit from a 5% increase in customer retention, in financial services

Sources: Gallup · Gallup and Workhuman · Allen et al., University of Kentucky (2014) · Bain & Company

How It Works

Five steps from good intentions to measurable results

  1. 1

    Discover

    We map your employee or customer journey, survey your people or customers, and review your current data, from satisfaction to sales and reviews.

  2. 2

    Train

    Three on-site GEM Leadership Sessions for a select group of your leaders: one each for Gratitude, Energy, and Mindset.

  3. 3

    Build

    Your Company Gratitude Playbook: gratitude built into every step of the journey, refined together, with a 90-day launch calendar.

  4. 4

    Implement

    Launch your 90-day plan, with two virtual support calls to keep momentum.

  5. 5

    Measure

    About nine months after launch, we measure the same KPIs we started with, so you see the change in your own data.

About nine months after launch, you receive your ROI Report.

Then gratitude becomes part of your annual planning, so the results keep building.

What You Receive

A strategy built around your people.

Every engagement is designed for your organization, your culture, and your goals. Then we measure what changed.

Respectful of your team’s time

About 8 to 9 hours across the full engagement: a 60 to 90 minute discovery session where we map your journey, three 60 to 90 minute GEM Leadership Sessions, an implementation meeting, and a 30-minute results review. Most sessions fit around existing meetings.

Journey mapping

Your employee journey, customer journey, or both, mapped step by step

Discovery and audit

A leadership deep-dive and a review of your current practices, data, and reviews

Custom surveys

Your people, your customers, or both, analyzed in a written Findings Report

Three GEM Leadership Sessions

On-site training for a select group of your leaders

Company Gratitude Playbook

A custom strategy with a 90-day launch calendar

Implementation support

Two virtual calls to keep momentum during rollout

Follow-up measurement and ROI Report

The same KPIs, measured again about nine months after launch, with a 30-minute results review

Who It’s For

Leaders who know growth is a human challenge

For organizations that already value their people and their customers, and understand that retention, loyalty, and performance start with how people feel, inside your walls and out. You want appreciation built into how your organization operates, not a program that sits beside your strategy.

Working with Wendy Hoerl through Gratitude HQ has been nothing short of transformational for our agents. Her guidance has helped unlock a new level of professionalism and personal responsibility that is driving measurable success.
RE/MAX Boone Realty

Begin With a Conversation

If your organization is ready to lead with gratitude, I want to help.

Tell me where you want to start: your people, your customers, or both. Every engagement is shaped around your organization, so the best first step is a conversation.

Schedule a Call with Wendy

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