Kerry Connolly and Melissa Giordano had seen enough depressing news in their jobs as anchor and associate director for the CBS morning show in Boston. Sitting around over coffee in the early morning hours in March 2005, they decided to offer...
I recently had a conversation with a concerned friend, an entrepreneur who owns a multimillion-dollar manufacturing company in New England. Since he bought the company two years ago, orders have gone through the roof, and revenue is way up — but...
Within a Week of the announcement that VNU Business Media's Incentive Show was closing its doors, competitor Selling Communications had launched a new show to fill the void: The New York Incentive, Rewards & Recognition Expo & Conference...
Discussions continue between the Society of Incentive and Travel Executives and the former SITE Foundation — now The Incentive Research Foundation (www.theirf.org) — although all signs point to a permanent severing of ties...
Every year, the incentive industry's major show gets bigger and better. This year's Motivation Show, held September 26 to 28 at Chicago's McCormick Place Convention Center, saw 13,467 registrants, compared to 13,153 in 2005...
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...