News — recognizing employees

We got our hands on WorldatWork’s latest, quite lengthy report on employee recognition entitled: Trends in Employee Recognition. As you might expect, the report was a page-turner for us over here, but the layperson may find it a bit dull. Okay, it’s a bit dry—we can admit that. However, the report does contain a great...

We recently came across a helpful blog series from Cisco Systems entitled: Cisco Partner Talent Series. The series focuses on helping partners attract, develop, and (most importantly in our opinion), retain talented and dedicated employees. While the audience for the majority of the articles seems to be big business—small, growing companies can certainly pull some...

Of course, the best way to recognize a hard working employee, or group of employees, is to present them with a crystal, glass, or marble award. But we understand that after you’ve given several dozen awards, plaques, and clocks; desks and mantles start to get a little overcrowded. So we came up with a list...

We’ve talked a lot on this blog about rewarding hard word, how to incentivize sales, and even how to plan an awards banquet – but we always seem to focus on large-scale gestures of appreciation of your staff. Well, we’re here to tell you that it doesn’t always have to be an engraved plaque or...