IF YOU PACKED A ROOM with incentive industry members and asked them about the coming year, you'd be buzzing from their excitement about the business rebound. The year is off to the most optimistic start in recent memory, and here's why...
RUNNING A SUCCESSFUL incentive program can be difficult enough, but summoning up the confidence to plan and implement one for the first time can be downright terrifying...
As if it weren't exciting enough to earn her company's Chairman's Award, Janice Clerkin felt her heart jump when the company president announced her prize: a two-year lease of a new BMW...
LANDS' END, the Wisconsin-based clothing and merchandise catalog and Internet re- tailer, keeps employees excited throughout the year with activities and celebrations, all designed around a theme. Last year's was Going for the Gold; here's some of...
Picture a workplace in which everyone treats each other with respect and daily pats on the back are a way of life. In A Carrot a Day (2004, Gibbs Smith), Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton give you the tools to make that workplace a reality by...
Recent research of 55 member companies from the Business Travel Coalition, based in Radnor, Pa., found that 52 percent of respondents plan to increase their incentive budgets in 2005, with the average increase estimated at 8.9 percent. The average...
Fifty-three percent of corporate meeting planners named Orlando, Fla., as the top destination for future meetings, according to a survey by Yesawich, Pepperdine, Brown and Russell, an Orlando-based marketing services company. San Diego was the...