Editor’s Note

The persistent parade of new technologies is unfolding on many fronts. Almost every advance is labeled as a breakthrough, and the list of “next big things” grows ever longer. What we’re seeing is the convergence of social media, mobile devices, cloud computing, and Big Data all coming together at the speed of light. The organizations that cannot adapt to this tsunami of information are just not going to survive. Companies are going to have to bend and stretch like never before; agile and nimble will become the new watchwords.

Flex Your Employee Recognition Muscle

Just for fun, I looked up the words “flex” and “flexible” as they might relate to an employee incentive program technology platform. Several words jumped out at me. For “flex” it was the words “stretch” and “bend”. For “flexible”, it was the words “agile” and “nimble”. I don’t know about you, but I can’t think of any better descriptors for what we’ll need from emerging technology for our employee recognition programs in 2016.

Recognition and Engagement April 2016 Advertisers

Boosting Dismal Employee Engagement Levels: 5 tips to do it

Employee engagement has become a top priority for HR departments in the corporate world. Although employee engagement levels have always been an issue, only recently have companies begun to realize the impact of disengaged employees on productivity and profit. Corporations have taken steps to respond to this disengagement problem, however, according to Gallup’s report, their actions are not proving effective, as employee engagement rates have not improved over the last fifteen years.

The Language Of Employee Engagement: Linguistic changes to achieve greater success

Stanford professor Bernard Roth says purging two phrases from your vocabulary can make you more successful in work and life. Roth, who is also the Academic Director for Stanford’s Hasso Plattner School of Design, recently released a new book called The Achievement Habit, in which he suggests that a couple of linguistic changes can help you achieve greater success. His suggestions and exercises are in direct parallel with the positive philosophies that are most effective when building employee engagement.

Employee Engagement Metrics

Our work focuses on using predictive analytics to decrease employee turnover or increase employee performance. We work with our customers to define the problem to solve, and then together identify useful data inputs to include in predictive model development.

Employee Incentive Programs: 5 programs with unexpected consequences

Employee incentives are challenging to get right. Although their ultimate goal is to motivate employees to succeed and achieve their best, many of these programs have unintended consequences.

Motivate Your Staff: 10 great techniques that actually work!

Trying to work out how to motivate staff who’ve gone past the ‘honeymoon’ period of trying to impress their new employer? Here are 10 great staff motivation techniques that actually work!

The Top 3 Owners Of Employee Engagement: Who owns it the most?

There is a lot of information available about employee engagement. Studies. Surveys. Whitepapers. Polls. Blog posts and long-form articles. And, in almost every case, they claim to have the silver bullet for increasing your employee engagement scores. Seems all of the authors profess to know the “10 secrets” to engaged employees. Or maybe it is just the “3 Tips to Success” if you’re really in a hurry.

Accelerate Employee Engagement: 5 part approach to wellbeing

Today’s employees need proactive, continual, and real-time feedback, not just a retrospective “good job” award. They want to be appreciated as whole people, not just employees. And by viewing engagement holistically—a 24/7, strategic approach, not just 9-to-5—companies will see an uptick in success.