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CEO Values Critical to Employee Loyalty and Motivation

Let me ask you a question. How well do your senior leaders model the behaviors they request of their teams? SmartBrief on Leadership recently asked just that question in a poll on their site (results at right). Sadly, less than 10% answered, “all the...

Published 29 Nov 2010 8:51 AM by Employee Engagement, Recognition and Reward Commentary | Globoforce Blog

Filed under: global recognition, company values and recognition, importance of executive buy-in, Comments on Articles and Research

Free Webinar: Recognition the KPMG Way: Driving Employee Engagement and Success

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Do you need to unify your culture ? If you want to hear tips and strategies for doing just that from a peer, join me and Sara Turner, the head of employee benefits and wellbeing for KPMG UK, Tuesday next week, November 30...

Published 24 Nov 2010 8:50 PM by Employee Engagement, Recognition and Reward Commentary | Globoforce Blog

Filed under: webinar recaps, Globoforce News, Customer Stories

A Culture of Recognition and Loyalty

In my last post I wrote about the different kind of cultures that can arise in an organization. So, what kind of culture works best? That depends on your goal. If all you care about is cranking out widgets and aren’t particularly concerned about the high...

Published 24 Nov 2010 8:40 AM by Employee Engagement, Recognition and Reward Commentary | Globoforce Blog

Filed under: culture of appreciation, global recognition, recognition for all, Comments on Articles and Research, strategic recognition, employee retention, culture management

What’s Your Company Culture?

I’m sure it comes as no surprise to any of my readers that I care quite deeply about company cultures. Indeed, I just co-wrote a book about it with culture right in the title – Winning with a Culture of Recognition . I’m always interested when other write...

Published 22 Nov 2010 8:28 AM by Employee Engagement, Recognition and Reward Commentary | Globoforce Blog

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

The Four “Anys” of Recognition

There are a lot of good people writing very well on the topic of how, when and why you should express your appreciation to colleagues, peers and subordinates. I occasionally like to feature them here, like these two writers whose recent work I admire...

Published 19 Nov 2010 8:25 AM by Employee Engagement, Recognition and Reward Commentary | Globoforce Blog

Filed under: culture of appreciation, recognition for all, company values and recognition, Comments on Articles and Research, strategic recognition, motivating employees

Can We Stop with the Carrots Already?

One blogger I enjoy in the incentives, recognition and rewards space is Paul Hebert, the author of the Incentive Intelligence blog . A couple weeks ago, Paul looked back at old posts of his to see how well he predicted the future. I most enjoyed his post...

Published 17 Nov 2010 8:17 AM by Employee Engagement, Recognition and Reward Commentary | Globoforce Blog

Filed under: Comments on Articles and Research, strategic recognition, reward choice

“Paying Bonuses” * When Will We Ever Learn?

It’s nearly that time of year so many in compensation and benefits have come to dread – end of year bonuses and the resulting litany of: “How come she got the same bonus I did? Clearly I worked harder.” Or “This isn’t as much bonus as last year and I...

Published 15 Nov 2010 8:08 AM by Employee Engagement, Recognition and Reward Commentary | Globoforce Blog

Filed under: recognition for all, Comments on Articles and Research, strategic recognition, cash vs non-cash rewards

Are You Recognizing or Valuing Your Employees?

Do you have an employee recognition program in place? If you do, what’s the purpose of that program? The obvious answer: “Recognizing employees.” Now for the trick question – is recognizing your employees enough? That sounds odd, indeed, coming from a...

Published 12 Nov 2010 8:09 AM by Employee Engagement, Recognition and Reward Commentary | Globoforce Blog

Filed under: employee engagement, Comments on Articles and Research, strategic recognition, Globoforce Recognition Book

The Golden/Platinum Rule of Business

Given unlimited resources (and unlimited understanding from the powers that be), what would you want to change in your organization? Knowing what’s broken, what’s not delivering desired results, what’s simply not registering high enough in employee surveys...

Published 10 Nov 2010 8:03 AM by Employee Engagement, Recognition and Reward Commentary | Globoforce Blog

Filed under: Comments on Articles and Research, strategic recognition, measuring recognition and engagement, Globoforce Recognition Book

Remembering the Tactical in Strategic Recognition Planning

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 read an...

Published 8 Nov 2010 2:50 PM by Employee Engagement, Recognition and Reward Commentary | Globoforce Blog

Filed under: Comments on Articles and Research, strategic recognition

Analytics & Employee Recognition: Finding the Recognition ROI

An article in the Harvard Business Review last month discussed the value of analytics in HR, describing how detailed analytics let, for example, Best Buy prove the value of a 0.1% increase in employee engagement at a particular store is an additional...

Published 5 Nov 2010 7:18 AM by Employee Engagement, Recognition and Reward Commentary | Globoforce Blog

Filed under: employee engagement, Comments on Articles and Research, strategic recognition, measuring recognition and engagement, Globoforce Recognition Book

Employee Engagement's Place in Compensation Planning

As compensation planning swings into full gear, how top of mind is employee engagement? In my post today on Compensation Cafe , I argue it should be. As I say in that post: If the point of compensation is to pay employees fairly for work rendered, then...

Published 4 Nov 2010 7:38 PM by Employee Engagement, Recognition and Reward Commentary | Globoforce Blog

Filed under: employee engagement, Comments on Articles and Research

Keeping What’s Important * Employee Recognition

It’s always good to be validated by the research. Thankfully, we did not see companies we work with contracting their recognition efforts in the recession. Most saw the importance of continuing employee recognition programs as critical to their ability...

Published 3 Nov 2010 8:30 AM by Employee Engagement, Recognition and Reward Commentary | Globoforce Blog

Filed under: recognition in an ailing economy, Comments on Articles and Research, strategic recognition, operational excellence

The Benefits of Global Consolidation & Consistency

How disjointed are your HRIS systems? We’ve found the larger and more global an organization, the more likely multiple, unconnected systems are in place, whether they are full-blown HRIS systems or employee recognition programs. That doesn’t means smaller...

Published 1 Nov 2010 8:11 AM by Employee Engagement, Recognition and Reward Commentary | Globoforce Blog

Filed under: global recognition, company values and recognition, Comments on Articles and Research, strategic recognition

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