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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: Gen-Z Leads the Way to Quiet Quitting

Gen Z is using what they know best – technology – and spreading the phenomena of Quiet Quitting all across the world through platforms such as TikTok and Twitter. Example posts range from glamorizing to achieve the bare minimum at work and setting overtime boundaries. And the trend is picking…

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How Sales Operations Teams Can Provide Value to CSOS

Madison Performance Group Offers Tips for Motivating and Strategically Aligning Sales Teams for Increased Productivity and Organizational Growth Sales Ops Teams Can Help Chief Strategy Officers Juggle Short-Term Demands with Big Picture Strategies New York, NY. August 14, 2012 — As chief sales officers are tasked with balancing the long-term…

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Ask Madison: Milestones At Work – What Should We Celebrate?

A plaque on the office wall may be outdated in an increasingly remote work-world. Rarely do we see 10-year and 15-year work anniversaries, given a recent average tenure of current employers at only 4.1 years in 2020. Particularly with remote work increasing, celebrations can be confusing and challenging. How do…

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Reimagining Rewards and Recognition

In a tight talent market, a robust recognition program can deliver tangible benefits to mid-market companies. The COVID-19 pandemic has driven massive shifts in the workplace and accelerated new ways of working. Today’s mid-market companies are coping with a slew of challenges, from retaining employees in “The Great Resignation” to…

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Ask Madison: What systems we use to track performance-based pay?

While performance-based pay is generally structured as part of an employee’s compensation package, there are tools available to help track goals, performance, milestones and more that can support pay values but are also part of a complete rewards and recognition platform. Companies can create customized platforms to centralize the performance…

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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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How Recognition Supports Retention

All business leaders need to justify the investments they make. HR executives are no exception. With employee recognition programs generally funded at 1% (or more), it’s important to understand and be able to explain how they impact worker retention and productivity, corporate revenues, and customer loyalty. Over the next few…

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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…

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Generation Z Is Not Avoiding Hard Work. They Are Eliminating Unnecessary Work.
No generation has entered the workforce during a period of greater disruption than Generation Z. Every generation has adapted to economic uncertainty, changing technology, and evolving workplace expectations. Generation Z, however, began building careers during a global pandemic, the rapid expansion of remote work, unprecedented advances in artificial intelligence, and an economy changing faster than many organizations can redesign themselves.
Millennials Did Not Demand More From Work. They Demanded More From Leadership.
Few generations entered the workforce with a larger gap between what they were promised and what they experienced. Millennials were raised during a period of extraordinary optimism. They were told that education, ambition, and hard work would open doors. A college degree was presented as a reliable path to professional opportunity. Career growth seemed attainable for anyone willing to work for it.
Madison Global Appoints Agnes O’Connell as Vice President of Marketing to Advance Growth Across Recognition and Travel Groups
Madison Global, a worldwide leader in employee recognition, incentive travel, meetings and events, today announced that Agnes O’Connell has joined the company as Vice President of Marketing, leading marketing strategy across both Madison Recognition and Madison Travel as the organization continues to invest in its next phase of growth.
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