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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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Is Your Employee Recognition Program About to Backfire?

In the 1980s, Soviet geologists were mysteriously drilling many shallow holes in a purported search for oil deposits. Since most of the oil in Russia lies deep underground, their efforts were unsurprisingly rarely successful. But the reason for it is instructive: They were paid based on a quota, and given…

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Performance Perspective

How to Understand and Motivate Different Personality Types

Today’s business leaders are well aware that the workplace is populated by multi-generations working side by side. However, many companies have not paid enough attention to the differences of “personality” types. There can be as many as 16 different personality types in play within any given organization at any one…

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How to Build a Shared Mission Across Your Workforce

The business community has recognized that maximizing collaboration – both within and beyond a company – can add significant value. Organizations can benefit from considering and aligning the broader interests of stakeholders in addition to the focusing on the interests of shareholders. Thus, yesterday’s corporate culture buzzword – “mission statement”…

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Our Company Culture is Great. What’s Next?

If your company is thriving – growing sales, increasing customers and driven by an exceptional workforce – then you’ve already mastered  the connection between a strong corporate culture and corporate suc cess . Strong corporate cultures don’t happen by accident and they certainly don’t develop overnight; they rise in companies…

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3 Ways Social Recognition Supports HR’s Expanding Role

In a labor market that is essentially at full employment and has little to no slack, businesses are having an increasingly difficult time recruiting and retaining top talent. Finding and keeping the right people will continue to represent one of the biggest challenges facing businesses in the years to come…

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Performance Perspective

3 Tips For Engaging Underachievers, Average Contributors and Top Performers

Setting specific goals and applicable objectives has always been the best way to increase an employee’s motivation and improve their performance. But today’s top organizations are now taking goal-setting strategies to a whole new level. They are taking into account where the employee ranks as a contributor and then providing…

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How To Make Mentors Out of Your Managers Through Recognition

With Millennials officially comprising the majority of the workforce, it’s time for organizations to re-evaluate how mentorship is being viewed and handled. During the Great Recession, there was a leadership bench crisis in which the investment and development of midlevel workers (often younger workers) were sidelined, which has now resulted…

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3 Ways To Keep Employees Engaged During The Summer

It’s common for productivity to drop as the temperature rises. In fact, workplace data suggests that productivity drops 20% during the summer months, with 45% of employees admitting that they’re more distracted. With the official start of summer just a few days away, there’s no better time for you to…

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