Are you getting the most out of your employee recognition program? If you’re not basing recognition on behaviors and actions that are in alignment with your company values and strategic objectives, then you’re throwing your recognition investment away. I was pleased to see the Corporate Executive Board recently reiterate much of what we’ve been preaching […]
Posted on April 12th, 2010 by admin
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Those without Nashville jobs will soon get some better help when it comes to receiving unemployment. The U.S. Department of Labor recently announced that the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development will receive $6,892,526 for technology upgrades to the system that processes benefits for unemployed workers. Of the $164.5 million total awarded to 49 […]
Posted on April 11th, 2010 by admin
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Several other efforts to close a large budget gap could help save Houston government jobs. City officials have announced that they will consider relying on employee attrition, efficiency gains from technology and money from a reserve fund to make up for about $7.5 million missing from Houston’s budget this fiscal year. “I think we’re on […]
Posted on April 10th, 2010 by admin
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After a round of layoffs, one popular sportswear company plans to create more Portland OR jobs. Earlier this month, Adidas America Inc. laid off a small number of employees as part of a restructuring effort in the United States. The company did not release the exact number of workers who were let go, but said […]
Posted on April 10th, 2010 by admin
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As employment jumped over the month, Houston medical jobs and education jobs added the most workers over the year. Although the December 2009 unemployment rate for the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area has not yet been released, the rate throughout Texas as a whole was 8.3 percent that month, lower than the national unemployment rate of 10 […]
Posted on April 9th, 2010 by admin
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News broke this week that Amazon.com is exiting the corporate rewards merchandise fulfillment business it entered in 2007. For its traditional catalog merchandise incentive company partners, Amazon’s Merchandise Rewards arm acted as the unseen drop-shipment fulfillment provider. According to Incentive Magazine, Amazon’s merchandise rewards partners were given 45 days notice with a few of the […]
Posted on April 9th, 2010 by admin
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I was pleased last month to have the opportunity to host Aberdeen Group Research Analyst Mollie Lombardi in a webinar on: “Recognizing the Right Behaviors to Achieve Company Objectives.” (Available for download) Mollie will shared insights uncovered in recent Aberdeen reports: “Beyond Satisfaction: Engaging Employees to Retain Customers” and “Globoforce: Recognizing the Right Behaviors to […]
Posted on April 9th, 2010 by admin
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Does your workforce span multiple generations from GenY to Boomers and cultures from New York to New Delhi, Berlin to Beijing? My article on just this topic appears in the latest issue of Workspan magazine (subscription required). In “How to Reward a Multigenerational and Culturally Diverse Workforce,” I offer insight into engaging four generations of […]
Posted on April 7th, 2010 by admin
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I’m thrilled to share with you a feature article in April 12 issue of Fortune magazine: Motivate without Spending Millions.” The article discusses employee recognition, fully capturing our position that frequent, smaller rewards across the vast majority of employees is the best approach towards creating the most effective recognition program. This stance was validated in […]
Posted on April 6th, 2010 by admin
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I recently received an email newsletter from Bob Nelson in which he advocates strongly against recognizing people on a quota. His point is: “You can’t manage by a formula. It just doesn’t work. You have to manage from the heart. You have to e real in real time, which can be a messy thing, not […]
Posted on April 2nd, 2010 by admin
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