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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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Employee Communications: A New Angle

How critical is employee communication? Consider this: companies on the low end of the employee engagement band are also the ones who put little to no effort into it. Internal communication initiatives are vital tools for building and sustaining a culture of trust and transparency. It’s what bonds everyone —…

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When You Have a List for Your List

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…

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It’s My Birthday, and I’ll Cry if I Want To

It’s your birthday, and you’ve just received the mandatory office birthday card. Everyone in your team (or whoever was around on that day) has signed it. Some have tried to be inventive with their good wishes; “remember last year on your birthday when we… !”, others have written the obligatory…

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Self-Fulfilling “Success” Prophecies and Recognition

We have all heard about self-fulfilling prophecies — a sense or prediction that eventually becomes true because we believed it to be. A recent paper from Quantum Workplace on the Cultural Insights of Awesome Workplaces is filled with some interesting stats. One noted that more than 90% of engaged employees…

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Autonomy: The First Step to Cultivating an Agile Company

Speed, performance, agility — the three go hand-in-hand. The best businesses are well aware that their customers hold them to two standards, to be fast and to be good. The smartest companies have also learned that being both requires an organization that is flexible, accommodating and agile. Agility is more…

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Looking to Win the Talent Battle? Try the “Great Boss Strategy”

The biggest priority across any c-suite is addressing the talent gap. Business leaders need to attract and retain good people in a labor marketplace that’s become insanely competitive. How focused are CEOs on that challenge? 87% of them say finding solutions that address employee retention is a “critical priority.” As…

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Retaining Baby Boomers

Experts who examine labor market dynamics believe the retirement of Baby Boomers is setting up to be the biggest corporate brain drain of all time. Employees born between the years 1946 and 1964 represented one of the largest population swells in history. Now many have already retired, or at least…

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How Social Recognition Raises Employee Happiness

Happy employees and enterprise profits go hand in hand. In fact, the financial divide between companies that have happy employees and those that do not can be the difference between sustained success and future failure. Think that’s exaggerated? Think again. One study measured the happiness gap at 22% noting that…

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2 More Ways Social Recognition Can Help Bigger Companies Feel Smaller

According to a new report by Quantum Workplace , smaller organizations have increased their levels of engagement, while larger organizations have struggled to do just that. In fact, the study points out two things; that engagement levels actually decrease as company size increases and that the engagement gap between the…

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Overcoming Social Barriers to Collaboration

August 31, 2017 | By Madison There is no debating the economic advantages of employee collaboration. Companies with collaborative teams outperform rivals across every meaningful measure from organizational productivity to worker satisfaction. Yet, when it comes to establishing and maintaining a collaborative work environment, many organizations feel they can do…

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Elevated Event Design With Madison Travel

Create Impactful Experiences with Madison Travel’s Event Design Services When it comes to meetings, events, and incentive programs, every detail matters. A well-designed event does more than fill a room—it leaves a lasting impression. That’s where Madison Travel’s Event Design service comes in. Madison Travel understands that event design is more than just aesthetics. It’s […]

Company Culture: From Fluffy HR Term to a Driver of Business Success
We all remember when company culture was a trendy buzzword pioneered and championed by startups and "cool" companies. It was a far cry from the strategic company culture we see today — a culture built around employee well-being, corporate social responsibility, and values that extend beyond a plaque on the...
A Guide To Work And Leisure In Lisbon

Close your eyes and picture the perfect corporate retreat—stunning waterfront views, world-class venues, and team activities that actually excite your attendees. Now, imagine all of that with effortless planning and seamless logistics. Sounds too good to be true? Not in Lisbon. Lisbon is quickly climbing the ranks as one of the most sought-after destinations for […]

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