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Madison is a global leader in employee recognition and incentives, pioneering digital programs since 1995. As an employee-owned company, we deliver recognition, events, and incentive travel solutions that strengthen culture and drive results.

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Designing Sales Meetings That Drive Business Outcomes, Not Just Attendance
Annual sales meetings often represent one of the largest internal investments an organization makes each...
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What Actually Drives a Successful Incentive Travel Program After 20 Years in the Field
Incentive travel has never been about the destination. That may sound surprising in an industry that...
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Sustainability Without Operational Discipline Is Just Messaging
Sustainability is now standard language in meetings and incentive travel. RFPs reference ESG commitments....

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Retaining Baby Boomers

Experts who examine labor market dynamics believe the retirement of Baby Boomers is setting up to be the biggest corporate brain drain of all time. Employees born between the years 1946 and 1964 represented one of the largest population swells in history. Now many have already retired, or at least…

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Tapping Into “Employee-Driven” Innovation

Fast Company recently published its list of  The 50 most Innovative Companies . Did you make the cut? Congrats if you did. Fear not if you didn’t. You can still gain an innovative edge by encouraging and recognizing employees who bring fresh ideas to the table. In fact, tapping into…

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How Social Recognition Raises Employee Happiness

Happy employees and enterprise profits go hand in hand. In fact, the financial divide between companies that have happy employees and those that do not can be the difference between sustained success and future failure. Think that’s exaggerated? Think again. One study measured the happiness gap at 22% noting that…

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Brackets Are Hard; Recognition is Easy

With March Madness heading into the Final Four most of us have given up on our brackets. Picking a champion across a sixty-four team field is not an easy task. There is, however, one consolidation. Even though brackets are hard, building a winning recognition strategy doesn’t have to be. Here…

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2 More Ways Social Recognition Can Help Bigger Companies Feel Smaller

According to a new report by Quantum Workplace , smaller organizations have increased their levels of engagement, while larger organizations have struggled to do just that. In fact, the study points out two things; that engagement levels actually decrease as company size increases and that the engagement gap between the…

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2 Things HR Can Do Right Now to Solidify the Company Brand

In a hyper-connected world dominated by instant feedback, a business’s brand has nowhere to hide. No matter what the product or the service your company offers, the customer’s total experience is constantly being evaluated, documented, shared and commented on by everybody and anybody. Life in the public eye is a…

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Ask Madison: Talking dollars and sense – how do I make the case for budget changes to my employee recognition program during recovery?
A budget squeeze shouldn't necessarily lead to reducing investment in your R&R program. In fact, research suggests programs that engage employees are good for the bottom-line. Employees need to feel that leadership is genuine when potential dollar reductions are considered for R&R programs dedicated to them; what could leadership do...
Diversity in the Workplace is Bigger Than You Think
Imagine if everyone in your company, from the CEO to controller to developer, grew up in the same town and graduated from the same college, the same year, with the same degree. Taken to such an extreme, homogeneity has obvious shortcomings, particularly if your business needs to target those with...
Ask Madison: How do I continue to support my employees as they battle “COVID fatigue” as well as build upon the empathy and compassion our company embraced during the onset of the pandemic?
My company banded together like nothing I've ever seen during the COVID crisis, how do I help us keep the momentum of that mindset going? Stakeholders of employee rewards and recognitions programs tailored their recognition strategy to address the immediate needs of their employees, and have found that the importance...
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