Sure, they get bashed all the time as time-wasters and money-drainers. But a recent survey of employees found that most people actually like meetings...
When Caryn Taylor-Lucia, CMP, and Shelly Tsipori, CMP, of SEI bought out The Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation, and transformed it into a summer camp for the SEI Select Advisors Council, one attendee confessed, “I gave up a trip to Hawaii to...
In the first of a series of studies on incentives, the Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement concluded what the industry has been touting all along: Sales incentive programs deliver tangible, bottom-line results...
There's no single way to motivate a 23-year-old who views work as a hobby and a 45-year-old Type A personality who wants everyone in the company to know about his every accomplishment. These two age groups live in separate worlds...
Money may make the world go round, but if you want your people to strive higher, rather than just go round and round, try offering something other than money to motivate them. So says new research from the Forum for People Performance Management...
Corporate governance scandals, the 2000-2001 recession, new legislation and regulations — all have left incentive industry professionals wondering if the “pure” incentive was dead, or at least in critical condition. In fact, CMI's 2006 Annual...
The Motivation Show — the meeting and incentive industry's biggest trade show — just got bigger. This year's event, to be held September 26-28 at McCormick Place South in Chicago, will include the first national conference on People Performance...
Wachovia is a Cinderella story in customer service excellence. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., with 94,000 employees, Wachovia is the fourth-largest bank holding company in the United States and the third-largest full-service U.S. brokerage firm...