One more book recommendation for the week: Tom Peters’ The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence. Don’t be intimidated by the heft of this book. It’s not meant to be read in one go, but rather savored and considered piece by piece. Two elements in particular stayed with me – Tom’s discussion of […]
Posted on May 28th, 2010 by admin
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There seems to have been a flux in excellent books on the power of recognition to motivate and engage hitting the market in recent months. Two I recommend are Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the Informal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results by Jon Katzenbach and Zia Khan and The 17 […]
Posted on May 26th, 2010 by admin
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Some local business and an educational institution are teaming up to prepare students for high-tech Austin medical jobs. The University of Texas College of Natural Sciences is planning to offer a Health IT Summer Certificate Program. The intensive full-time, nine-week internship program will help about 50 students gain the skills they need to get a […]
Posted on May 26th, 2010 by admin
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Join me tomorrow (Tuesday, 25 May 2010, at 11:30 EDT, 4:30 GMT, 9:30 PST) for a free, live webinar on the results from a recent Globoforce survey on how companies changed their employee recognition approach in response to the recession and how they are now adapting their recognition programs during the economic recovery. Attendees will […]
Posted on May 24th, 2010 by admin
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Continuing my look at why employees love gift cards in a reward program where we saw how if you introduce gift cards into an old catalog selection – within weeks 90-99% of employees will select the gift cards! That’s exactly why catalog providers hate them, because your employees love them! Let’s look at one more […]
Posted on May 24th, 2010 by admin
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Are you on board with employee recognition? Perhaps you’re ready to restart recognition after shutting down efforts during the recession. Perhaps you want to start up a strategic employee recognition effort for the first time. But one major concern you have is “how much will this cost me? What’s the proper budget for a truly […]
Posted on May 21st, 2010 by admin
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The Recognition Council, a strategic industry group within the Incentive Marketing Association (IMA), issued some very interesting research in the last couple of months. “Pump Up Employee Engagement: Fuel Prosperity with Strategic Recognition” presents a nice summary of the research supporting much of what I’ve been preaching in this blog for the last several months […]
Posted on May 19th, 2010 by admin
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Continuing my look at why employees love gift cards in a reward where we saw how if you introduce gift cards into an old catalog selection – within weeks 90-99% of employees will select the gift cards! That’s exactly why catalog providers hate them, because your employees love them! We’ve 1.7 million employees worldwide using […]
Posted on May 17th, 2010 by admin
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Did anyone else read the Time article on the motivation and reward studies conducted on American school children, designed to determine which bribes worked best in getting desired results? The study results were a mixed bag. Different approaches were applied in different cities and school systems that had very different challenges. The scheme that worked […]
Posted on May 14th, 2010 by admin
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I’ll be returning to the topic of employee preference for gift card rewards in future posts, but I will also continue to offer my take on the latest research and news in our industry as well. To that end, the Ascent Group puts out an interesting report on Reward & Recognition Program Best Practices (requires […]
Posted on May 12th, 2010 by admin
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