Employee Recognition
The Importance of Employee Recognition
How important is it to regularly and consistently recognize and encourage your employees? The statistics tell us it’s extremely important and we all...
Employee Recognition
Years Of Service Programs: The Myth of the One Best Way
If you are looking for the One Best Way to recognize your employees, may I gently suggest that you are missing the point? There is no cookie-cutter,...
Employee Recognition
Importance of Years of Service Awards
More than 80 years ago, C.A. Short Company decided that we would do things differently. At a time when employers were demanding more and more from...
Service Awards
Years of Service Awards That Deliver Results
Service Awards
Administrative Professionals Day, 2020 Gift-giving Guide
The dust of the Christmas season has barely settled, but it’s already time to start thinking about gift-giving again! Administrative Professionals...
Service Awards
It’s Time to Scrap “Scientific Management” and Replace it with NATURAL Management
In my last blog article I described a flawed system of management called “scientific management” that is harmful to everyone involved: shareholders,...
Service Awards
How Did We Get Employee Motivation so Wrong?
In my previous blog article I defined intrinsic motivation as the, “five, natural pleasures of work.” I then made an outrageous claim, “Companies can...
Employee Recognition
Creating the Magic Moment; That's Employee Recognition
Sometimes, as managers, we forget about the value that even the simplest praise and recognition has to our employees. We forget that it is human...
