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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In a working world where many employees are disbursed from one another and value the opinions of their co-workers just as much (if not more) than they do senior executives, it’s hard to imagine why all recognition programs are not social. Social recognition does more for businesses than traditional recognition…
The makeup of the workforce is dramatically changing. In less than five years, Digital Natives will outnumber Baby Boomers. In ten years , they will represent 70% of the talent pool. What should your company be doing now to win the attention and capture the loyalties of this group?…
So, you’re putting together a sales incentive or employee recognition program that will be based on specific targets and objectives. You have your key performance indicators (KPIs) for each audience and you’ve allocated reward funding based on the incremental gains your company is hoping for. But in looking over the…
Want your messages to connect? Behavioral economics tells us that people respond more to communications that put goals and objectives into a personalized context. And by “context” I mean a familiar framework that reflects their individual working circumstances. By designing and implementing employee communications and reward offerings with context in…
That’s a provocative statement, if not a counterintuitive one. I can hear it now. “Mike we want to be competitive. We need to be competitive. We need to do more than our competitors. That’s why we are in business!” And to that I say “Yes, of course! That’s all correct.”…
Focus. It’s a word you hear over and over again when it comes to sales performers. The good ones have it, but most are either not focused enough or focused on the wrong things. To get every sales rep to perform better here are a few things you can implement…
The workspace is changing. In fact it’s less a “space” than it is a collection of resources connected in mind and spirit through digital technologies. All of that is changing the way work gets done and how people perform and relate to one another. How so? The digital economy is…
Your brain is overflowing. Your boss has just given you another task to complete. You feel like your creative brain has taken a vacation, and you don’t know how you’re going to churn out the two 20 page reports you have to create this week, on top of your usual…
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…
We recently read an article about who is liable in an accident where the car involved has no driver . Is it the fault of the other driver, or the car manufacturer? Perhaps the manufacturer who supplied the parts for the driverless system, or the company who surfaced the road…
