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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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The Connection Between Recognition, Engagement and Productivity

In my last posting I talked about the positive impact employee recognition can have on retention. I offered a collection of statistics that defined its return and quantified the material impact it has on business. In this edition, I’d like to continue that discussion by outlining the symbiotic connection between…

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How Engaged Employees Lead to Engaged Customers

In my last two posts I offered several stats that identified recognition’s impact on worker retention and productivity. To review, employee engagement triggered by the timely and consistent use of recognition, effects how profitable a company can become over time. Examining companies with higher levels of engaged employees uncovered noticeable…

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Getting Salespeople to Practice What They’ve Learned

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , nearly 1 out of every 8 full time employees makes their living in a sales capacity. Companies that employ salespeople have a lot riding on their success, which is why they spend over $20 billion per year training them. How do those…

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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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Supporting an HR Infrastructure is Less Complicated With Maestro

Driving employee engagement and retention, identifying and developing leaders and building extraordinary cultures are critical objectives for HR leaders everywhere. However, the avalanche of HR automation has made managing the HR infrastructure a significant challenge. How do HR leaders manage the expanding technical infrastructure that’s mushrooming within their departments? How…

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Siemens STAR program, powered by Maestro, recognized by Employee Benefits Awards UK
Siemens’ employee reward and recognition program receives award for “Most Motivational Benefits” (New York, NY.January 11, 2022) — Madison, a global leader in social recognition, congratulates its long-standing partner, Siemens UK, for receiving the “Most Motivational Benefits” as part of the 2021 Employee Benefits Awards program. The award was received...
Ask Madison: 6 Resolutions to Challenge the Great Resignation with Rewards & Recognition
Reward and Recognize to Retain Proactively retain your workforce and stop the Great Resignation in its tracks for 2022. We can't afford to be reactive when it comes to keeping our workforce intact. It costs too much. Our New Year Resolutions for 2022 have to be laser-focused on people. Headline...
Ask Madison: Budgeting for a Meaningful Employee Rewards and Recognition Program in Mid-Enterprise Companies
Do your research and ensure you are spending on what will be meaningful to employees. As a mid-enterprise company, you can affordably budget for a robust R&R program. Spend smartly and efficiently in a way that the program could pay for itself in savings on retaining your workforce. Did you...
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