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Part 4: Catalog Providers Hate Gift Cards because Your Employees Love Them!

Continuing my look at why employees love gift cards in a reward program, we saw how, with the introduction of gift cards into an old catalog selection – within weeks 90-99% of employees will select the gift cards! That’s exactly why catalog providers...

Published 1 Jun 2010 8:52 AM by globoforce

Filed under: culture of appreciation, global recognition, strategic recognition, Globoforce News, reward choice

Don’t Kill Health & Wellness * Leverage Engagement & Recognition

Do you have a health and wellness program in your organization? What about an employee engagement initiative? If you have both, do you look for correlation between the two? How about causation? Causation, of course, is harder to prove than correlation...

Published 2 Jun 2010 8:34 AM by globoforce

Filed under: recognition in an ailing economy, company values and recognition, Comments on Articles and Research, motivating employees

Engagement Down but Factors of Engagement Remain the Same

Nearly a year ago, David MacLeod and Nita Clarke were commissioned by the Department for Business (BIS) to take an in-depth look at employee engagement in the UK and to report on its potential benefits for organizations and employees. Mr. MacLeod summarizes...

Published 4 Jun 2010 8:36 AM by globoforce

Filed under: employee engagement, company values and recognition, Comments on Articles and Research, culture management

Part 5: Catalog Providers Hate Gift Cards because Your Employees Love Them!

In my final look at why employees love gift cards in a reward program, we saw how, with the introduction of gift cards into an old catalog selection – within weeks 90-99% of employees will select the gift cards! That’s exactly why catalog providers hate...

Published 7 Jun 2010 1:38 PM by globoforce

Filed under: global recognition, recognition for all, strategic recognition, motivating employees, Globoforce News, Customer Stories

Free Webinar: REBOOTING LEADERSHIP - Back to Basics in Today's Workplace

Join me this Thursday, 10 June 2010, (8:30am Pacific/11:30am Eastern/4:30pm GMT) as I host a free webinar with Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden, the authors of the Contented Cows books, as they discuss what makes today's workplace different and how...

Published 8 Jun 2010 2:39 PM by globoforce

Filed under: webinar recaps, culture of appreciation, employee engagement, strategic recognition, Globoforce News

Retain, Develop, Plan, Innovate * Talent Management & Recognition

I’ve read more articles, reports and blog posts than I can count about employee turnover and retention in the economic recovery (most recently in the WSJ : "More Workers Start to Quit" ). I’m sure you have, too – the crux of all them is that...

Published 9 Jun 2010 8:40 AM by globoforce

Filed under: Comments on Articles and Research, strategic recognition, employee retention, high performance culture

Forget Your Top Performers. Worry about Your Second Tier Instead.

What’s keeping you up at night? In Silicon Valley it’s the same as it’s always been – retention and recruiting. The recession made no impression on the talent market here in top tech industries. One SVP of HR reports “he still has to pay top dollar for...

Published 11 Jun 2010 8:50 AM by globoforce

Filed under: culture of appreciation, recognition for all, Comments on Articles and Research, motivating employees, employee retention, performance management

Employer Brand * Likely More Misunderstood than You Think

Here’s a startling statistic I ran across recently: “70% of senior leadership understand and 49% value the employer brand, compared with 10% and 20% of employees/potential employees, respectively.” That’s from a CIPD/Mercer report published a couple of...

Published 14 Jun 2010 8:35 AM by globoforce

Filed under: company values and recognition, importance of executive buy-in, Comments on Articles and Research, strategic recognition, performance management, culture management

Globoforce Joins Compensation Cafe Bloggers: Debut Post on Employee Economic Reality

What’s your personal “blog roll?” What sites fill up your reader or do you find yourself regularly visiting throughout the week to keep you finger on the pulse of your industry? My blog roll is quite long. Just a few I follow are listed in the footer...

Published 16 Jun 2010 1:23 PM by globoforce

Filed under: recognition in an ailing economy, Comments on Articles and Research, Globoforce News

Learning from Xerox: Changing Culture to Make a Positive Even Better

Ursula Burns has been much in the news lately, it seems. One article on her that particularly caught my eye appeared in Fortune magazine a couple of months ago. The article opened with this: “Being bold has never been a challenge for Burns, 52, a mechanical...

Published 18 Jun 2010 8:39 AM by globoforce

Filed under: company values and recognition, importance of executive buy-in, Comments on Articles and Research, strategic recognition, motivating employees, performance management, culture management

Precarious Culture * Achieving the Proper “Balance” with Recognition

Have you ever heard the aphorism to truly understand something you have to look at it another way? Well, sometimes you have to turn it upside down. Paul Hebert, a blogger I always learn from and author of the i2i blog , recently posted an interesting...

Published 21 Jun 2010 12:53 PM by globoforce

Filed under: culture of appreciation, importance of executive buy-in, Comments on Articles and Research, strategic recognition, culture management

Corporate Culture * Myth or Reality?

A Bnet post titled “Why ‘Corporate Culture’ Is a Myth” caught my attention. The author makes imprecise distinctions between “culture” and “values”: “The values of a group might be honorable — or not. Unlike the mushier name culture, with its connotation...

Published 23 Jun 2010 8:47 AM by globoforce

Filed under: culture of appreciation, company values and recognition, Comments on Articles and Research, strategic recognition, culture management

Join Me at SHRM * 2 Sessions on CEO Role & Measuring Recognition

Join me at SHRM's 2010 Annual Conference and Exposition in San Diego, June 27-30, 2010. I'll be leading two sessions: In “The CEO’s New Role in Recognition,” Monday, 28 June, from 4:00-5:15, I will demonstrate to HR leaders how strategic employee...

Published 24 Jun 2010 12:39 PM by globoforce

Filed under: importance of executive buy-in, Globoforce News, measuring recognition and engagement

Results Last Philosophy for Greatest Success

What’s your philosophy of leadership? Hands off? Micro-management? Numbers-based (just deliver the results)? People-based (keep employees happy)? Some combination of the above? When asked that question in a recent New York Times “Corner Office” column...

Published 25 Jun 2010 8:10 AM by globoforce

Filed under: importance of executive buy-in, Comments on Articles and Research, strategic recognition, high performance culture, operational excellence, culture management

Putting Strategic Objectives to Work

In an article on the importance of morale and engagement, what intrigued me most was a statement on execution that applies to far more than just efforts to improve morale or increase engagement: “It’s not your plans that are important; it’s whether you...

Published 28 Jun 2010 12:16 PM by globoforce

Filed under: company values and recognition, Comments on Articles and Research, strategic recognition, motivating employees, high performance culture, performance management, operational excellence

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