More 2022 IFI Study Insights: Focus on ROI, the SMB Market, Education, Experiences
Published: Aug 25, 2022
... [ read more ]
What's Hot, How-to
How-to, research, and other insightful articles presented in order of date published.
... [ read more ]
The labor shortage, high employee expectations and turnover, customer disloyalty, and the increasing focus on stakeholder management and human capital reporting are creating significant opportunities for the IRR (Incentive, Rewards, and Recognition) field. Given that the IRR field remains largely unknown outside of the trade, the big question is: who will be the beneficiaries of this next period of growth?... [ read more ]
When comparing the Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace, it's easy to see that employees overwhelmingly don't choose tangible rewards as the primary way they want to be shown appreciation. Only 6% of employees identify tangible gifts as their primary language of appreciation, according to extensive surveys conducted by our company. And they also choose tangible gifts as their least valued language almost 70% of the time. That doesn't mean your company should give up their use: just understand how best to use them. ... [ read more ]
With an increasing focus on professional program design, return-on-investment management, and effective human capital management and reporting, everyone in business can benefit from the most comprehensive, authoritative knowledge management center in the field of stakeholder engagement.... [ read more ]
With estimated annual expenditures in the tens of billions of dollars in the U.S. alone, corporate gift giving is serious business. As part of a well-planned process, gift-giving can help establish or enhance critical relationships and become a cost-effective means of recognizing activities that benefit the business or it can backfire with negative, even publicly shared consequences or worse. ... [ read more ]
Does your CEO and CMO know that organizations spend $50 billion or more on brands for use in business, event, and promotional gifting, rewards and recognition programs that provide invaluable brand exposure and incremental business that most brands consistently overlook or undervalue. ... [ read more ]
This handbook is for Brand Media Specialists seeking to unleash the power of brands for business, event and promotional gifting, as well as rewards, recognition, loyalty and fundraising. Part I is the Executive Summary, Part II provides extensive information for Brand Media practitioners and preparation for the Brand Media Specialist online certification test. ... [ read more ]
The current practice of charging for program design, implementation, and technology in the reward markup does everyone a disservice. ... [ read more ]
Over the last few years, the recognition field has seen a significant shift from traditional length-of-service awards to programs that focus on supporting critical organizational goals -- quality service to internal or external customers, participation in volunteer initiatives, a willingness to go the extra mile, etc. ... [ read more ]
In his book, Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations, behavioral psychologist Dan Ariely details an experiment that pitted three motivators against each other. ... [ read more ]
