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Are you a leader or are you a follower? That question is pretty easy to answer if you’re honest with yourself. This one is a bit more difficult. If you’re a leader, are you a strategic leader or an operational leader? What’s the difference? I r... More...

Christmas is a time of joy and gift giving, a time of office parties and bonuses. But what will you do for your employees to make sure that they return in the New Year motivated and ready to increase performance and move your organization forward? Ho... More...

Last month, Laura Schroeder wrote a great post on Compensation Café on tailored rewards and the realization that one size doesn’t fit all. As Laura points out: “Various research shows that people are motivated by different things at different ti... More...

Irrational. Some days, does it seem like that’s the best word to describe the workplace? I tend to like Dan Ariely’s research on irrationality. Initial research showed, “In eight of the nine tasks, the promise of a bigger bonus actually significant... More...

I’ve been thinking over an article I read in Talent Management a couple of months ago. In “When Unequal Is Better,” Mike Prokopeak makes the well-reasoned argument that high performers deserve greater attention, career opportunity and compensatio... More...

Pay for performance seems to be much in the news and HR trade publications lately. The general take-away from all of the articles is that pay for performance doesn’t work (or at least doesn’t work as well as anticipated or desired) but everyone doe... More...

Are you on board with employee recognition? Perhaps you’re ready to restart recognition after shutting down efforts during the recession. Perhaps you want to start up a strategic employee recognition effort for the first time. But one major concern y... More...

Employees are running on recession adrenaline- a phenomenon that employees are working harder than ever before to ensure their jobs stay secure. This is leading to serious implications for the workplace and the health of employees. Up to 90% of all d... More...

I’ll be returning to the topic of employee preference for gift card rewards in future posts, but I will also continue to offer my take on the latest research and news in our industry as well. To that end, the Ascent Group puts out an interesting re... More...

Pay and benefits as well as opportunities for promotion have been the primary tools of engagement building for many organizations for years. Lately I have been reading more and more about using non-standard rewards. Good idea? Maybe. But it can backf... More...

In December 2009, The Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed 410 senior executives from across industrial sectors and countries on the talent management challenges they face as they recover from the recession, issuing the results in their Companies ... More...

A recent issue of Incentive magazine offered interesting insight into trends in “incentive” programs and 2010 expectations in a reader forecast survey . Results of the survey found that readers expect more budgets to be cut than increased in 2010... More...

The Corporate Executive Board (CEB) recently ran an excellent three-part series on recognition and reward best practices. Highlights are below, but be sure to click through and read the full series. From Beyond the Bonus: Four Ways to Recognize a... More...

In my newsfeeds and blog readers, a good headline will often jump out and catch my attention. Soon after the Academy Awards in Hollywood, this headline caught my eye: “Too good to reward? You might just have Streep Syndrome.” What is “Streep Syn... More...

News broke this week that Amazon.com is exiting the corporate rewards merchandise fulfillment business it entered in 2007. For its traditional catalog merchandise incentive company partners, Amazon’s Merchandise Rewards arm acted as the unseen dr... More...

Continuing on the theme of what you should avoid as you take on a Recognition Resolution , be sure not to complicate the simplicity of recognition. When making recognition available to all, which we’ve seen is most effective with peer to peer recog... More...

A week ago on Employee Appreciation Day, I issued a challenge to make recognition an ongoing effort and not a once or twice a year affair. With that in mind, let me offer you a few more cautionary tales on how not to recognize as you make recognition... More...

Last week we looked at various attributes of recognition done well. This week will be a few examples of what recognition is not. First up, Paul Hebert over at Incentive Intelligence and the i2i blog recently posted a couple of interesting ideas ... More...

Judith M. Bardwick, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, recently posted to the Huffington Post the transcript of her interview with literary critic Robert Morris on employee recognition. Judith hits on four... More...

Employee satisfaction is dramatically down, per The Conference Board . Clearly, employees are growing less satisfied in their work, which lays to rest that ridiculous claim that people should be grateful to just HAVE jobs. While that is in some p... More...

Think about your training program for new managers (or, if you don’t have such a program and wish you did, think about what you would want to do). What are the ideas, actions, methods, processes you would convey to them that they would need to do, ac... More...

In a very interesting article in Human Resources Executive Online , MBA professor Peter Cappelli discusses the change he’s seen in the last 20 years in these high performers and in their answers to the exam question: “Write about your last job, ex... More...

I’m often asked why debit cards aren’t a good option as part of a reward mix when planning a strategic employee recognition program. The primary reason is debit cards are essentially equivalent to cash. As I’ve said before , cash doesn’t motivate. I... More...

Everyone loathes to be micromanaged but according to Harry Chambers , author of My Way or the Highway: The Micromanagement Survival Guide , eight out of ten of us is, or has been, a victim of a micromanaging boss! Whether it’s intentional or not... More...

In the last month, two reports hit the news on intrinsic vs. extrinsic rewards and why non-cash incentives are preferable to cash. While both research reports ultimately support our position of the value non-cash, intrinsic rewards, I couldn’t help b... More...

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Remembering the Tactical in Strategic Recognition Planning

Engaging Staff for Christmas

“The Way We’ve Always Done It”

Irrationality * It’s What Makes Us Human

Give the OPPORTUNITY for Recognition to All, Regardless of Performance

Is There Any Hope for Pay for Performance?

Recognition: How Much Will This Cost Me?

Recession Adrenaline Causing Employees to Work More For Less Rewards

A New Model for Recognition * Give Them What They Need AND Want

Non-Standard Employee Rewards – Can They Backfire?

What’s Critical to Retention? Clear Communication and Trust

Trends in Recognition Program Rewards

Excellent Recognition Guidance from the Corporate Executive Board

Avoiding “Streep Syndrome” in Your Recognition Practices

Amazon Exits Incentives Market * What It Means for You

Don’t Complicate the Simplicity of Recognition for All

Thoughtless Rewards & Methodologies * Bad Recognition Practices

Wisdom on What Not to Do

Recognition Best Practices

Decreasing Employee Satisfaction & What to Do about It

What Are Your Three Rules?

Are You Encouraging Your Stars to Quit?

Problems with Debit Cards in Recognition

Stop Micromanaging and Start Recognizing

Blinded by Science * Can Recognition Really Be Tested in the Lab?

	Good Guy = Bad Manager :: Bad Guy = Good Manager. Is it a Myth?

	Base Pay Increases Remain Steady in 2007, Mercer Survey Finds

	Online Overload: The Perfect Candidates Are Out There - If You Can Find Them

	Cartus Global Survey Shows Trend to Shorter-Term International Relocation Assignments

	Rewards, Vacation and Perks Are Passé; Canadians Care Most About Cash