News — Tips for Managers

Building Culture at your Company

From the moment a company is established a culture is being built. Since day 1, each decision made, each person hired, each success and failure shapes and contributes to the development of your corporate culture. Business owners consistently try to craft a culture on paper when their company reaches a certain capacity with the hope...

Tips for hosting an awards banquet

Hosting an awards banquet or corporate recognition event can be a powerful tool to motivate your employees and decrease the high costs of employee turnover. It’s also challenging. Coordinating venues, catering, awards, parking, (the list goes on and on) can be a full-time job in the months leading up to the event. One piece of...

Gamification Drives Employee Reward Programs

Gamification is rapidly reshaping company dynamics in terms of how employee incentive programs are formed and endure. But what is it? Gamification refers to the integration of game mechanics and tropes into a website, service, campaign, or community that allows employees to track and compete against their colleagues. For example, a tech savvy company could...

Award Accomplishments Using Custom Plaques

“Did you hear about Jim from Sales?” “What? No. What happened?” “Old man McDugal gave him a plaque for his amazing numbers last month. It is magnificent! It’s shiny and has custom engraving. Seriously, you have to go see it. It’s sitting on the corner of his desk like a proud eagle! Man, I think...

Employee Appreciation Day

Pop quiz time! When is Employee Appreciation Day? We’ll even accept the correct month. Any idea? I’ll give you a second… Give up or want to venture a guess? Well, sadly we tricked you – there is not a nationally recognized holiday to appreciate employees, however, many companies and small businesses have begun participating in...