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3 Min.Corporate Holiday Gifting Done Right
For many organizations, the end of the year brings a corporate gifting opportunity for employees, customers, and clients alike. Just as with personal holiday shopping, corporate holiday shopping can be stressful, time consuming, and expensive. […]
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4 Min.Seven Success Tips for Celebrating Milestones
Originally published on January 31, 2017. Updated on July 18, 2023. Throughout our lives, milestones are a part of the human experience. Beginning with our first birthday to a long-awaited 50th wedding anniversary and all […]
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4 Min.Best Practices in Employee Engagement: Part 3
Throughout my blog series sharing best practices in employee engagement, I’ve explored everything from communications to gifting to teambuilding. In the final blog post of this series, I will focus solely on the number one […]
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2 Min.Myth vs. Reality: Incentives & Engagement
Employee incentive and engagement programs are more popular than ever! Done well, they’re an effective tool for motivation, recognition, and retention. Sometimes, their reputation for fun and excitement overshadows the very real business benefits they […]
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4 Min.Top Five Trends in Corporate Gifting
Whether given as part of an employee engagement strategy or in conjunction with an event, corporate gifting is an effective tool both for motivating and retaining employees and for maximizing the attendee experience. In fact, […]
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4 Min.Best Practices in Employee Engagement: Part 2
Employees may join a company for the money, but they stay for the personal and professional fulfillment. That’s why an effective engagement strategy is just as important as a competitive compensation plan when it comes […]
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3 Min.Five Steps to Establishing a High-Performance Sales Culture
Many organizations measure sales performance by sales activity, revenue, and quotas. These are all key metrics to understand the health of your team and channel partners. However, they’re only part of the puzzle that will […]
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4 Min.Best Practices in Employee Engagement: Part 1
In my previous blog posts, I explored the importance of employee engagement and retention as well as the benefits, including increased loyalty and profitability. Now, it’s time to explore the best practices that will lead […]
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4 Min.Six Benefits of Employee Engagement and Retention
Anyone who’s been in business or sales long enough has seen firsthand that it’s much more cost effective to retain customers than to find new ones, and the same is true of a company’s most […]
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3 Min.The New Rules of Engagement: Employee Engagement and Retention in 2023
“Where are all the job seekers?” In 2023, I hear this question being asked by HR professionals and frontline managers on a daily basis. Qualified applicants are out there, but with so many unique job […]
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2 Min.Make Every Day Employee Appreciation Day
As we look forward to Employee Appreciation Day on the first Friday in March, consider how your organization says thank you to its most important assets: its employees. Recent data tells us the importance of […]
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60 Min.[ON-DEMAND] Energize Your Engagement Strategy | Session 2: Staying Engaged
No commitment issues here… It’s time to stay engaged! As we learned in Session 1 of Energize Your Engagement Strategy: Getting Engaged (It’s Complicated), a lack of engagement may not only cost you financially but […]