Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Ergonomic Travel Incentives



Don’t you just wish everything was made ergonomically? Ergonomic promotional products for your employees, especially for your traveling employees, will be highly appreciated because the items are designed for ease of use. When thinking of an incentive for your traveler (for example, your outside sales people), you may want to induce a sense of comfort and alleviate their anxiety about their business travel through ergonomics.

You can give customized ergonomically designed travel luggage bags with your company logo professionally imprinted on a decorated metal plate to your top sales personnel(s) for their next business trip. Travel bags that promote maximum comfort, safety, efficiency, and ease of use will relieve some of the pain related to traveling. Not only will your sales team look unified, professional, and well-groomed, but the comfort from design of a wheeled suitcase not clipping your feet as you walk or having the weight of your luggage on the wheels and not your wrists is also a plus.

Show you care about your employees with ergonomic solutions!

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Creating an Incentive Program: Avoiding Favoritism and Instilling Merit Based Rewarding



Simply put, an effective and non-bias employee rewards program should be based off of a rewarding system for the purpose of strengthening business relationships internally and building employee confidence because you are highlighting their superior work performance or their achievement of an anticipated goal.

Avoid the complexities related to favoritism or preferential treatment. Rewards should be a result of a well-planned and effective incentive program that fosters and reinforces your employee relations through motivation and recognition. Efforts to reward individual achievements/milestones can set up a system where other employees would want to emulate the achievers and this potential domino effect can increase the overall company’s productivity.

A well thought out incentive program includes having an incentive strategy, measurable objectives, budget etc. For example, make sure your goals within your incentive plan are attainable and measurable. If standards are set too low, rewarding will become commonplace and not worthwhile. If standards are set too high then employees will feel discouraged and will remain unmotivated because they will feel their efforts amount to nothing. If your goals are immeasurable then the effectiveness of the incentive program is ambiguous or non quantifiable and you cannot track the specific achievements of your employees.

An incentive program isn’t about making favorites or rewarding personnel randomly every week but creating a valuable means of motivation and recognition that would fortify internal relations and maximize constructive employee output.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Let’s Talk Business: Customized Business Card Cases



In what appears to be a recession, your employees deserve some indication that their continued efforts to obtain more business are greatly appreciated. Give your employee the gift of business and networking savvy with an über-professional, customized business card case.

There are even promotional business card cases with photo frames so you can help your employee give their personal touch to a sleekly designed corporate item. With an added display of professional with a business case imprinted with your corporate logo, employees can feel more confident when pursuing new business prospects.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Rewarding Your Employees’ Professional Milestones



In order to make a dynamic impression that you sincerely appreciate an employee’s loyalty, you can give a well-thought out reward, which would be well-received, rather than giving something generic. In order to upkeep employee relations, you can show them that you value their committed and helpful presence in the company by encouraging them through feedback so they can continue to give their positive input; reward them for substantial employee milestones as in achieving a high sales record or celebrating a 10th year anniversary.

So, as an example, how can you show that you appreciate and recognize an employee’s long-term commitment to your company? You can be symbolic and reward them with a well designed clock gift set as a reminder that their time investment has been valuable.

You can think about the great benefits of employee incentivesthat are well thought-out and symbolic like increase in morale and motivation to surpass expectations and to stay committed but it is practical to establish an incentive program that coincides with the degree of significance of the milestone because not EVERY thing has to be rewarded.