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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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Budgeting for Employee Recognition: Practical Dos and Don’ts

As another year winds down, it’s a good time to take a closer look at employee recognition budgeting practices. Combining Madison’s accumulated experience on the topic with outside research; this edition of Performance Perspectives will highlight the contemporary direction of program budgeting and cost allocations. We will look at the…

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Employee Engagement in The Virtual Workplace

As companies look for new ways to leverage intellectual capital across their global workforces while reducing costs, virtual work environments are rapidly being adopted. They are enabled by familiar technologies, from email and text messaging tools to sophisticated global video conferencing, all of which have replaced the old forms of…

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Managing Productivity in an Uncertain Economy

Ongoing economic uncertainty is having a profound impact on today’s workforce – particularly among younger professionals, who are filled with anxiety about layoffs, cutbacks and downsizing. Their fears of unemployment and an unstable future are fueled by the fact that today’s lingering recession is the hardest to hit the global…

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Press Release

Madison Performance Group Launches New Corporate Website

New York, NY. January 5, 2011 — Madison Performance Group, the global leader in the field of Workforce Engagement and Sales Incentive Marketing is proud to announce the launch of its new corporate website and the adoption of its new brand which reinforces and better represents its global market leadership…

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Recognition as a Strategic Advantage

Using recognition as a strategic complement to traditional workforce engagement tactics is capturing the attention of executives across the business world. In response to this trend, The Human Capital Institute (HCI), a global professional association advancing the science of strategic talent management, and Madison Performance Group, the premier global reward…

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Six Early Warning Signs Your Top Talent Is Quietly Burning Out
Burnout rarely erupts suddenly. It whispers long before it roars. And with high performers, the whispers are almost silent. Unlike struggling employees, high performers don’t telegraph their distress. They continue delivering, continue meeting deadlines, continue producing high-quality work — until the moment they can’t. By the time leaders notice something is off, the emotional damage is often months in the making. The challenge isn’t that high performers don’t show signs. It’s that leaders aren’t trained to recognize them.
Frontline Employees Don’t Go Silent — They Go Unseen
Frontline and deskless workers make up over 80% of the global workforce. They are retail associates, warehouse teams, manufacturing line staff, nurses, hospitality workers, and field technicians. They are also the employees least likely to be recognized. In our new white paper, The Disengagement Domino Effect, we outline why disengagement spreads fastest in frontline environments — and how one overlooked employee can quietly influence an entire shift.
When Engagement Breaks, It Breaks in Silence
Disengagement spreads quietly. It moves through tone, energy, and unspoken norms — not through dashboards or spreadsheets. That’s why many organizations don’t catch it until productivity, collaboration, and morale have already slipped. In our new white paper, The Disengagement Domino Effect, we explored how disengagement spreads emotionally before it spreads behaviorally. The good news: the same is true for re-engagement.
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