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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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9 Basic Tips for Creating a Seamless Travel Incentive Program

Designed to reward those who perform at the highest levels in your organization, travel incentive programs have a proven positive impact on engagement, motivation and employee loyalty. Unfortunately, many organizations struggle to design the right program for their needs. Here are nine tips to help you to create a seamless…

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It’s My Birthday, and I’ll Cry if I Want To

It’s your birthday, and you’ve just received the mandatory office birthday card. Everyone in your team (or whoever was around on that day) has signed it. Some have tried to be inventive with their good wishes; “remember last year on your birthday when we… !”, others have written the obligatory…

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Are You Looking at the Whole Picture?

Even though non-cash award budgets represent a small fraction of your total rewards portfolio, they still constitute a significant investment. It’s important that your administrative infrastructure includes both the monitoring and analytical devices you need. HR has always had a handle on its compliance responsibilities. It’s always embraced and utilized…

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Being Web-Enabled in a Mobile World

Googled anything lately? You may have noticed that the world’s leading internet-related services company has changed their logo — a modification that has symbolic significance. How so? When the company first started, people reached them from a single destination — a desktop PC. Now, visitors interact with the web across…

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Engagement From the Top Down

Some organizations think of employee engagement from the bottom up. They survey their workers, assess results and track data points. While all of that is a good way to measure the commitment of your workforce, it’s not the best way to manage it. I used the word “manage” here for…

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Self-Fulfilling “Success” Prophecies and Recognition

We have all heard about self-fulfilling prophecies — a sense or prediction that eventually becomes true because we believed it to be. A recent paper from Quantum Workplace on the Cultural Insights of Awesome Workplaces is filled with some interesting stats. One noted that more than 90% of engaged employees…

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Reinforcing Creativity in Salespeople

So who’s the most creative person in your company? Maybe it’s someone you don’t expect. Maybe, it’s one of your salespeople! Your salespeople should be among your most creative. After all, it takes fresh thinking, insight and imagination to stand out in a crowded marketplace. The most successful salespeople have…

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Recognition: The Other Contact Sport

As a new NFL season kicks off I am reminded that football is not the only “contact” sport in play these days. The employee recognition game can also be won (or lost) based on your contact strategy. Employees value being recognized and appreciated more than anything else. The most engaged…

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Want to Pass the Test? Social Recognition is the Answer

It’s the beginning of yet another school year and all through the country students are settling back in for a new round of classes and homework. So with that in mind I thought I would offer up a couple of quick lessons and follow up assignments focused on improving your…

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6 Things You Need to Know About Employee Feedback

Employee feedback is the foundation of personal growth and professional development. It increase motivation, enhances performance, elevates engagement and provides the blueprint for continuous improvement. Yet, it can be one of the most misunderstood, and as a result, one of the most neglected activities within the employee-employer dynamic. Here are…

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3 Companies doing gender equality right (and how you can, too)
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) have evolved over the years, moving away from a trendy buzzword and toward a crucial tenet of any successful business. It's what propels companies into sky-high profits. It is responsible for ground-breaking innovations. And it's what boosts employee performance.  There are dozens of business...
Recognizing Women at Work Shouldn’t Be Just Lip Service
You'd be hard-pressed to find a modern organization in today's workforce that doesn't in some way express goals to empower women and create a more equitable environment. Many companies have pledged to increase recognizing women at work , while supporting their growth, improving visibility and actively seeking to level the...
Ask Madison: Employer and Employees are Ready to Get Back on the Road
Both buyers and sellers of incentive travel programs were surveyed in the 2020 incentive Travel Industry Index (ITII) , a joint initiative of FICP (Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals), IRF (Incentive Research Foundation), and SITE Foundation (Society for Incentive Travel Excellence in association with Oxford Economics. The findings indicate we...
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