Earlier this year, Chris Levy, marketing manager for Houston-based NCI Building Systems, was looking for an incentive company to help him plan next year's annual sales meeting for an NCI divisional group, Metallic Building Co. Levy, in discussion...
The Inuksuk (pronounced ee-nook-shook) was a stone monument erected by the Inuit — the first people to inhabit portions of Alaska, Arctic Canada, and Greenland — to provide direction for travelers or communicate a message that would make the...
HOW CAN MANAGERS in high-turnover industries keep their people motivated? Some answers can be found in the latest research by the SITE Foundation, titled “Motivation in the Hospitality Industry.” The survey of employees in the fast-food and hotel...
DESPITE THE ONGOING POPULARITY of cruises — the original all-inclusive travel experience — corporate planners have historically been slow to embrace their land-based brethren, the all-inclusive resort. That seems to be changing...
AS GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE, the French poet and critic, once observed: “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” The same could be said of managing today. Every now and then, we all need a break from striving...
RECOGNIZING YOUR EMPLOYEES increases the likelihood that they will do good work — and will want to continue to work for you. For these reasons alone, you'd think the use of recognition would be standard operating procedure in today's organizations...
BILL BOYD CHUCKLES as he thinks about the questions that inexperienced planners ask when outsourcing their incentive programs...