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How to be an Authentic Leader

More often than not – people in power who are tasked with leading a large group of people are often bi-polar in their personality. What we mean is, often the “true” personality of your boss only emerges outside of work. It’s easy to see through fake people, especially fake bosses. It’s as if a cookie-cutter...

Increasing Employee Engagement

Fact: You cannot have engaged customers without having engaged employees.   According to Gullup, a prominent authority on employee engagement statistics, 70% of employees in the US are not happy—and therefor disengaged. This impacts customer retention, turnover, and most importantly the company’s bottom line. In fact, their 2013 report include findings such as: “Engaged workers...

Art Glass Awards

Have you even seen our selections of art glass awards? Prices start at $60 (when ordering in bulk). One quick note about our art glass awards: Bubbles, flow lines, slight scratches, and imperfections are inherent to mouth-blown art glass, and slight variation in design pattern is considered acceptable. Take a look at a few of...

Appreciating Employees: Sweat the Small Stuff

We’ve talked a lot on this blog about rewarding hard word, how to incentivize sales, and even how to plan an awards banquet – but we always seem to focus on large-scale gestures of appreciation of your staff. Well, we’re here to tell you that it doesn’t always have to be an engraved plaque or...

Advice for Small Business Owners

We talk a lot about awarding accomplishments or planning for an your next banquet but what about small business owners? An eight-person company is much less likely to cater a large awards dinner, let alone go out of their way to engrave plaques and crystal awards. We’re not saying it never happens—it’s just less likely...