Inspiring employee health and wellness by providing motivating incentives is becoming more common for large and small companies alike across the United States. When organizations utilize a few key concepts to implement and consistently communicate employee wellness programs, they...

I was fortunate enough to purchase a new car this year and as so many other consumers have experienced, my insurance company and car salesman offered me incentives for referring a friend. Employee and customer referral incentives can be a...

Staff recognition is a powerful tool in a manager's work belt. The old Lombardi quote, "Praise in public, criticize in private" works because of simple human psychology: we want other people to recognize our great work and would rather they...

Intra-organizational contests are commonly utilized to create healthy competition among employees. When designed fairly and properly implemented, these sales incentive programs can really help to produce results which can be appreciated in a waning economy such as what we are...

Implementing an effective safety incentive program is often perceived as a huge undertaking for a company. In March I published an entry on how to set up a successful safety program. I wanted to build on this topic and provide...

Making the workplace a safe place for contractors, visitors, volunteers and employees is a necessary obligation and many organizations have safety incentive programs in place to do just that.  I wanted to provide some insight into just what workplace safety...

In honor of June being National Safety month, I would like to discuss how safety award programs can promote safety in the workplace and reward team safety efforts. Safety incentive programs will generally include goals for both individual achievements as...

In the last entry I spoke about how incentive program goals should be established in three steps and I would like to expand upon this topic to include examples. Since many of my companies have requested examples of specific objectives...

During a conference call the other day, I was speaking to a new client that was trying to formulate a list of goals for improving workplace safety, increasing sales, developing company and employee referrals and providing excellent customer service. With...

It is clear to see that as consumers, one prefers an environment where employees are eager to help and appear to be happy at work much more than an environment where no one seems motivated to help and employees appear...