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Service Anniversaries Revisited
I’ve posted a few times on service anniversaries and if you’re a regular reader you know I’m not a big fan. I think they represent the Henry Ford era of recognition and should be unceremoniously relegated to the dust bin of HR practices. Some folks disagree with me. (Can you believe that?) Rather than bury this disagreement [...]
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Your Facebook Friends are Now In YOUR Reward Program
Paid Advertiser Paid Advertiser Technology – specifically the social space – is always, read that again – always changing. It’s tough to keep up, with let alone actually leverage. Just when you think you’ve got it figured out, a new idea, application, approach, comes along and makes what you just spent 10 weeks on [...]
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Loser Perks Drive Performance – Or do they?
Winners are treated differently (just ask Charlie Sheen.) You know what I’m talking about. Top performers get to come in later, leave earlier, get better lunches and generally live a charmed life. Right? It’s all that tiger blood and alien DNA. That’s the impression some folks have. It might just be they work harder [...]
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Ethics Isn’t an Incentive Objective
I’ve had a lot of conversations about recognition and rewards programs over the years. Invariably, I’ll run across a company that runs reward programs focused on what I would consider “must have behaviors.” What is a “must have" behavior for an organization? Here are some examples: No stealing (and yes that includes inflating your expense [...]
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Charlie Sheen, Data Visualization and Incentive Programs
Okay, maybe adding Charlie Sheen to the headline was a bit of SEO, but in reality, it does have a bearing on this post. I’ve been doing this incentive and reward stuff for a while and a huge hole in the process for most clients is measuring program effectiveness and measuring what is going on [...]
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What Will Generation “C” Mean for Incentives and Rewards?
Paid Advertiser Connected and Clicking… Image by RSNY via Flickr A recent article from strategy+business (magazine by booz&co) added another generation to the already crowded room that includes Gen Y, Gen X, Generation Jones, Boomers, and Gen Z. They are coining the term Gen "C." Gen C is (to steal shamelessly from [...]
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Recognition 3.0 Webinar on March 1 @ 1:00 pm EST – Be There
If a trophy falls on your head in the forest and there’s no one there to see it, were you recognized? Recognition Is Social At its heart – recognition is a social event – and the definition of social is changing. That is what we will be talking about on Tuesday, March 1st at 1:00 [...]
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It’s the End of February – 3 Things You Must Do if You Run an Incentive Program!
Ahh… you’re relaxing aren’t you? You spent the last quarter of last year putting the final touches on your annual incentive and recognition program. You beat up your reward vendor, you talked with managers about what they wanted to see, you met with Sr. VPs to get their input, you agonized over whether you [...]
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