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At the end of my last posting I promised to share the secret to implementing a high-performing, high-touch recognition strategy without breaking the bank. So what’s the answer? How do you involve and influence all of your employees without driving up costs? The answer lies in two words — social…
“It is better to give than to receive.” That age old axiom tells us that generosity has its own rewards — especially around the Holidays — and that people on the giving side experience just as much (if not more) satisfaction than those on the receiving end. In the context…
Fresh produce is often marked by a “use by” date. It’s there to guarantee quality and to make sure what you are about to buy hasn’t grown stale. Recognition programs should have such markers. Too many are out-of-date. They don’t reflect modern methods and techniques and they don’t quite measure…
The reliance on timely and accurate information has never been more evident than it currently is within reward and recognition program management. The best-in-class operators have evolved from simply capturing data to using it to produce better results. However, many employee recognition leaders still struggle to pinpoint the connection between…
Today’s sales ops teams are expected to be more strategic in the way they serve senior executives, brand managers and salespeople. As a result, sales operations professionals have learned to leverage new technologies and apply best practices across the many initiatives and sales incentives they manage. So how do they…
The conditions impacting employee reward programs are constantly changing. Businesses need to stay abreast of the economic, generational and technical forces that are shaping best-in-class strategies and impacting results. Join Mike Ryan Madison’s Senior Vice President of Client Strategy and special guest Rodger Stotz, Chief Research Officer at the Incentive…
Only 55% of sales professionals produce enough revenue to meet their quotas. That means almost half are not performing to plan and not contributing enough revenue to support their business’s growth goals. Why is that? In this month’s White Paper, Mike Ryan explores: How to make your entire sales team…
Software as a Service solutions have become the new standard for reward and recognition planners. As a category, SaaS is faster to implement and less expensive to operate. However, not all SaaS business relationships are created equally. Today most Software as “Service” solutions are lacking just that—service. In this month’s…
In the world of business being “disruptive” means to unset, depose or radically change the accepted way of doing things. By that definition, social recognition is also disruptive. Social recognition has removed constraints, shattered limitations and expanded expectations. It’s driving fundamental changes in the way employee recognition and sales incentive…
Starting any new job can be hard. Employees often struggle to make connections, understand their role and develop relationships. Almost one third of all new hires will quit within the first year. About half will leave within the first 18 months. So why do so many new workers leave so…
