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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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Madison Named a Finalist in the 2018 BIG Awards for Business

The latest in a series of accolades for the company’s social recognition technology, Maestro New York, NY. October 18, 2018 — Madison, a global leader in social recognition, has been named a finalist in Business Intelligence Group’s 2018 BIG Awards for Business. Using a proprietary judging process scored by well-known…

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4 Tips to Fostering a Peer-to-Peer Recognition Program

The one thing more powerful and efficient than managerial recognition is having a peer reward you for a job well done. However, over 80 percent of employees don’t think they receive enough recognition in their workplace. How do employers engage their employees through more appreciation? Is saying “thank you” often…

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5 Ways to Boost Your Employees’ Self-Esteem and Confidence

Having employees with high self-esteem and confidence has a direct correlation with job satisfaction and performance. In fact, healthy, strong self-esteem creates employees who feel good about themselves. They are typically able to focus better, need less time off and generally get along well with coworkers. However, some workers find…

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Why You Should Care About Psychological Diversity

Say the phrase “workplace diversity,” and a fairly specific concept comes to mind: A group of employees composed of different genders, races and ages; one that you’d easily be able to distinguish as heterogenous just by looking at them. This is just about everyone’s top-line definition of diversity, but what…

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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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3 Tips for Managing Stressed Out Workers

July 10, 2018 | By Madison Everyone has stress in their lives and many times those pressures spill into the workplace. Managers and supervisors are often the first to notice when workers are having problems. The response of management can play a crucial role in keeping employees focused and productive…

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SlideShare: 3 Tips to Prevent the Pitfalls of Stressed Out Employees

Everyone has stress in their lives and many times those pressures spill into the workplace. Managers and supervisors are often the first to notice when workers are having problems. The response of management can play a crucial role in keeping employees focused and productive at their jobs, despite personal turmoil…

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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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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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