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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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Ask Madison: CSR During a Crisis

Ask Madison : As a business, we have an established corporate social responsibility policy to help us make a positive mark on society; we also like to recognize our employees for their accomplishments. What is the best use of our resources to be able to do both during the COVID-19…

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HR as the White Swan: Season 2, A Podcast Series from Madison

Hosted by Elliot Clark, CEO of HRO Today, and featuring Judd Weisgal, Senior Vice President of Madison, this series provides HR teams with the tools to navigate the current “Black Swan” event and serve as the “White Swan” leaders who turn negative energy to positive. Each podcast is a quick-listen…

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Ask Madison: The Art of the Conference Call

How can you master the art of the video conference call to help your employees feel valued, appreciated and on track? Why is Mastering the Art of the Video Conference Call So Important? For many organizations, leadership is working tirelessly to keep operations running and, in some instances, keep doors…

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Ask Madison: Making Remote Work, Work

How to Support and recognize employees in the remote environment Even prior to companies implementing work from home programs to combat the spread of COVID-19, remote work was fast becoming a new model.  This work model had grown by 44% in the last 5 years in the US and studies…

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Ask Madison: What will be changed from this crisis?

Life will be now known as Before COVID-19 and After. There are moments in our lives that alter our realities and create the tick-marks on our timelines like marriages, first jobs, births, divorces, deaths, retirements and more. Certain communal events of grand magnitude also are engrained in time and cause…

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Madison Performance Group Offers Enhanced Employee Recognition Program with MaestroCONNECT

MaestroCONNECT continues to expand its integrations with leading third-party, employee-facing tools New York, NY (December 3, 2019) — Madison Performance Group, a global leader in Social Recognition, has enhanced its cloud-based SAAS solution, Maestro, with continual and ongoing integrations through MaestroCONNECT. The award-winning Maestro platform uses social employee recognition to…

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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. Hotels promote certifications. Destinations highlight environmental initiatives. Carbon calculators appear in proposals as a matter of course. This evolution is positive and necessary. However, the presence of sustainability language does not guarantee sustainable execution. There is an increasing gap between what is promised and what is operationally delivered.
Why Recognition Is the Most Powerful Tool to Protect High Performers
Organizations often treat recognition as a perk — something nice to have, something extra. But for high performers, recognition is not a perk. It is protection. High performers carry tremendous emotional and cognitive weight. They take on more work. They solve more problems. They mentor more peers. They generate more impact. And they do it all without asking for much in return. But every human has a tipping point. And without recognition, high performers hit theirs much faster.
The Myth of the Unbreakable High Performer
High performers are often described with an almost mythic quality: resilient, unstoppable, reliable, self-driven, limitless. They are the employees leaders depend on — the ones who say yes when others hesitate, who push harder, who deliver when the stakes are highest. But there’s a dangerous flaw embedded in this mythology: High performers are not unbreakable. They are simply quiet about the breaking. This misconception is costing organizations dearly.
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