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So, here's a question: What happens when you mix a drawn-out lackluster economy with underappreciative corporations? Honestly, many things come to mind. None of them are good. But I think [...]

An interesting thought struck me recently as I was talking to a guy who runs a research company. He was discussing the challenges of changing his business model because of [...]

What do you do online? It's a very simple question. But it's answered differently by almost anybody you ask it of. Personally, I check the news, read sports columns, see [...]

The latest pay strategy trend in Corporate America has companies increasingly tying their employees' compensation to performance. While this practice has been common for most executives, it is now filtering [...]

There are some days you simply shouldn't be at work. No, I'm not advocating a less-than-100-percent work ethic. Hear me out for just a moment. The thought struck me recently [...]

When Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox announced a contest in September, he didn't anticipate the firestorm it would cause. Cox formed the nonprofit PayKids Foundation earlier this year as an [...]

It seems as though corporate executives have nothing to do these days other than manage change. Speak to any 'experts' and what they'll tell you is, 'How you manage change [...]

It seems growth is the name of the game in the incentive industry these days. Attendees and exhibitors at the 71st Motivation Show, held in Chicago in late September, overwhelmingly [...]

Happy Hour is an interesting place right now. It used to be known as a time to celebrate the end of a hard day of work or a reason for [...]

When in doubt, think big. That seems to be the motto of employees working for IMEX, the exhibit company in Frankfurt, Germany. Later this month, Carina Bloom, marketing and operations [...]

When you're technologically challenged and you only recently retired a VCR in favor of a DVD player, there are a lot of trends that can pass you by. Okay, full [...]

Knowing that success in business is often determined by how well you fulfill client needs, suppliers in the incentive industry are stepping forward with more customer-focused business plans. While the [...]

Health care tends to be something that most people don't think about until one of two things happens. Either they need coverage, or it's taken away from them. These days, [...]

It's not every day that somebody gets the opportunity to attend the Olympics. Or the Super Bowl. Or the Daytona 500. So, going to one of these events would be [...]

Provides advice on hiring employees. Development of a mission statement for each interview; Right environment for conducting an interview; Questions that can and should be asked during the interview.

Outlines the most common management mistakes and ways to avoid them. Arrogance; Indecisiveness; Stubbornness; Negativity; Cowardice.

Offers advice and tips for managers in gauging the mindset of an audience. Attention to body language; Responding to the body language of the audience.

Provides advice on incorporating client feedback into employee motivation programs. Ways of getting feedback from clients; Benefit of client feedback to employees. INSET: Rewards for Recruiting.

Provides advice on how employers can take care of its employees who are caregivers for a family member. Average age of the employed caregiver; Ways that employers can show working caregivers that they also care for their personal well-being; Importance of a flexible work schedule for working caregivers.

Reports on the controversy created by the billboard contest launched by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox for his PayKids Foundation in 2004. Criticisms directed towards the contest; Reaction of Domino's Pizza on its involvement with the contest; Defense of Cox for the contest.

Focuses on the 71st Motivation Show held in Chicago, Illinois in September 2004. Realization of companies that they need to get back to formally recognizing the work that their employees do; Remarks from several incentive industry executives on the outlook for the industry.

Focuses on the efforts of IMEX marketing and operations director Carina Bloom and her colleagues to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to raise money for the Emergency Appeal Fund of UNICEF. Information on the development of the fund raising idea; Other fund raising efforts of Bloom.

Presents the highlights of the Incentive Marketing Association annual conference held in Naples, Florida in August 2004. Focus of the educational sessions; Views of Regis Marketing Group CEO Regis Welsh on the importance of identifying the goal in providing incentives to buyers.