How Effective Are Gift Cards As Recognition Awards?
According to recent research on gift cards published by Incentive Magazine 97.6% of all incentive users reporting felt that gift cards were effective, very effective or extremely effective. Actual...
View ArticleWhat Recognition Award to Use
It’s become common practice in the incentive industry for award and recognition companies to say that they are award neutral. This should mean of course that they have no bias toward what award you...
View ArticleGive Me the Gift Cards I Want
In employee interview after employee interview we constantly hear the complaint that their company just doesn’t listen to them and rarely gives them rewards that appeal to their own lifestyle....
View ArticleUsing Cash or Non Cash as Employee Awards?
Many people in the incentive industry will say that cash as an award doesn’t motivate as well as non-cash. Frankly to say that cash doesn’t motivate is disingenuous. It is innately tied to our...
View ArticleMillennials Love Gift Cards
If you want to motivate or recognize the performance of millennials, give them a choice of gift cards. Recent research conducted by NPD Group and the Wharton School finds that gift cards are...
View ArticleWellness Award Programs Past, Present and Future
According to Incentive magazines “Safety and Wellness IQ,” almost 50% of companies today have some sort of employee wellness program in place. The biggest difference today is that most CEOs while...
View ArticleWellness & Safety Award Budgets Per Employee
When considering an incentive effort to drive employee wellness, one of the first decisions to make is how much to spend on each employee. There has never been any definitive analytical proof that...
View ArticleLow Employee Engagement Equals Low Performance
Many many employees will head out over the next few months for some well-deserved R&R with their families. Did you know that one of the periods of lowest engagement at work is after a return from...
View ArticleThe Benefit of True Choice
Will the traditional corporate gifts that were awarded to your parents and grandparents be effective in motivating and recognizing employees in today’s diverse workplace? The Award of Choice card was...
View ArticleIt’s July – Do You Know Where Your Ho Ho Holiday Incentives Are?
Many of us are ransacking our closets for the coolest possible clothing we own right now; so it’s a stretch to ask for too much concentration around the upcoming holiday season. The reality is,...
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