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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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Diversity in the Workplace is Bigger Than You Think

Imagine if everyone in your company, from the CEO to controller to developer, grew up in the same town and graduated from the same college, the same year, with the same degree. Taken to such an extreme, homogeneity has obvious shortcomings, particularly if your business needs to target those with…

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Webinar

HR as the White Swan: Season 3, A Podcast Series from Madison

Hosted by Elliot Clark, CEO of HRO Today, and featuring Judd Weisgal, Senior Vice President of Madison, this series provides HR teams with the tools to navigate the current “Black Swan” event and serve as the “White Swan” leaders who turn negative energy to positive. Each podcast is a quick-listen…

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7 Ways to Improve Company Culture

Company culture is an important part of any business. An attractive culture can speak volumes about your company to prospective employees and customers alike.  In fact, a company’s culture can have a significant impact on the success of the business as it can either attract or repel potential employees and customers. So how can you shape…

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White Paper

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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The 4 C’s of Onboarding

High performers rarely announce they’re struggling. Learn why they burn out, the early warning signs to watch for, and how recognition helps you keep them. Required: an empty excerpt is why the opening shows twice.

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The 4 C’s of Onboarding Best Practices

A company finds a purple squirrel and hires her immediately. But the new employee never becomes integrated with the company, and her work is never on par with what the company expected from her. What went wrong? What practices can the company change to ensure that new employees are actually…

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Press Release

Madison Offers Human Capital Institute Webinar on Modern Business Case for Workforce Recognition

Today’s Recognition Programs Must Encourage Creativity, Collaboration and Innovation Among Knowledge Workers and Increasingly Virtual Workforces New York, NY. July 18, 2012 — As executives look to optimize the contributions of their growing knowledge-based workforces, Madison Performance Group, a global web-based workforce recognition and employee incentives solution provider, is offering…

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Company Cultures Have Suffered During the Economic Downturn

Companies Can Not “Double Park” Their Culture and Expect It to Be There Later New York, NY. February 23, 2011 — As the economy rebounds, companies must recalibrate efforts to nurture a healthy corporate culture by recognizing employees’ contributions, according to the most recent Performance Perspective executive briefing, released by…

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Madison Global Appoints Gale Crosley as Independent Director
Madison Global, an employee-owned ESOP company with international reach and more than 50 years of experience in employee recognition, incentive travel, meetings and events, today announced the appointment of strategic growth advisor Gale Crosley, CPA, CGMA, as an independent director on its Board of Directors. The appointment adds an experienced outside perspective to the company's Board as Madison accelerates mid-market and enterprise expansion in its next phase of growth.
Generation Z Is Not Avoiding Hard Work. They Are Eliminating Unnecessary Work.
No generation has entered the workforce during a period of greater disruption than Generation Z. Every generation has adapted to economic uncertainty, changing technology, and evolving workplace expectations. Generation Z, however, began building careers during a global pandemic, the rapid expansion of remote work, unprecedented advances in artificial intelligence, and an economy changing faster than many organizations can redesign themselves.
Millennials Did Not Demand More From Work. They Demanded More From Leadership.
Few generations entered the workforce with a larger gap between what they were promised and what they experienced. Millennials were raised during a period of extraordinary optimism. They were told that education, ambition, and hard work would open doors. A college degree was presented as a reliable path to professional opportunity. Career growth seemed attainable for anyone willing to work for it.
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