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Are Gift Cards Impersonal Awards?
Some managers honestly believe that gift cards are not a good award to give to employees simply because they are too impersonal. And in some cases maybe they are correct. But the acceptance of using...
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What HR Leaders Are Saying About Employee Recognition Programs?
The Society of Human Resource Management recently conducted a survey on: What engagement practices and strategies are implemented How the alignment of company core values with employee recognition...
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What Are Your Employees Thinking – But Wont Say?
Just ran across this post from last year on CBS Money Watch from Jeff Haden, a ghostwriter and speaker who has ghostwritten four Amazon #1 bestsellers. While the post may be a few months old the...
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3 Things You Should Never Do in Employee Recognition
As the title states, here are three things you should never do in an employee recognition program. Frankly there are a whole lot more than three things you shouldn’t do in recognition programs, but...
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Why the Emphasis on Employee Recognition?
Over the last couple of years we, in the awards industry, have seen a resurgence of employee recognition and awards programs. There are more blogs on the subject now than you have time to read, and...
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Should you Reward Employees for Loyalty and Should You Wait Every Five Years...
From our perspective, the easy answer to both of these questions is, NO and NO! Possibly the most ridiculous employee recognition program today is the ubiquitous Service Anniversary program that...
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Are Today’s Employee Recognition Programs Failing?
According to an article in the PRNewswire, todays corporate recognition programs which mostly focus on the traditional years of service type programs are clearly failing. This article shared...
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Employee of the Month Programs – Ban Them!
A couple weeks ago we blogged on this very subject, and we have blogged on it before as well, and my guess is that we will blog on it in the future as well. You can’t have a certain kind of employee...
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Gift Cards v. Merchandise – Again!
The September issue of Incentive Magazine reports on the 11th Annual incentive industry roundtable on several topics relevant to the incentive industry. The roundtable is composed of “some of the top...
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The Power of Thank You
Every time we see an article like this one from HR Online we want to scream and yell…. “Don’t You Execs Get It By Now!!!!” The author of this article, Susan Meisinger, is a past president of SHRM, and...
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