Chicago Motivation Show

October 23rd, 2008 admin

We attended the world’s largest exhibition of motivational products and services at McCormick Place in Chicago.  It is imperative that during this challenging business climate, we provide you with all the tools at hand to help you with solutions for your business.

The show contained more than 2,000 exhibitors with brand-name merchandise awards, gift cards, and enticing travel destinations.  Because of this show opportunity, we are networking with incentive houses in order to help you with all your incentive and recognition award needs.

Along with the merchandise and travel, we noted that two authors of two books in our business library, The Carrot Principle, and Saving the World at Work, were among the 50 seminars in the show.  These seminars on effective incentive recognition, along with the world’s largest display of recognition award ideas, will help us create a well-designed recognition program for you.

The results will be increased productivity, morale, and employee retention.  A satisfied employee and satisfied customer improve business performance.  Everyone says that, but do you have a creative marketing partner to “pull this off?”  Our right brain approaches to creating incentive programs capture people’s hearts and minds.

We look forward to helping you.

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Peer-To-Peer Recognition

September 19th, 2008 admin

Recognition programs, designed to drive engagement, focus on every employee and are extremely successful.  These engagement-targeted programs are peer-to-peer driven.

Some companies have used a five-tier plateau program where the first step is merely a peer-to-peer email-based thank-you, and as each plateau increases in significance, so does the incentive reward.  The final tier is a substantial award plateau that would need executive approval.

We have designed some recognition programs using several options for each plateau.  These engagement and recognition programs increase productivity.  Ask yourself  would you rather have employees working at 75% or 100% productivity?  How much money would that increase in productivity save a company?

As reported in Incentive Magazine, the consulting firm, Tower Perrin, concluded that a 15% improvement in engagement, will cause a 2% improvement in a firm’s operating margin, for a Fortune 500 company that could equal billions.

Employee engagement recognition programs work!

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New Incentive Solutions Lens on Squidoo

July 8th, 2008 admin

We have developed a “Business Incentive Solutions & Strategies” lens on Squidoo in order to extend our informational services and resources to you.

This lens will recommend books and other sites as well as give additional incentive trend information. Visit it at http://www.squidoo.com/incentivesolutions.

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Getting It Right

June 28th, 2008 admin

At KS Yocum Enterprise, we become your marketing partner and help you create the correct incentive program to drive the transformation that you seek. Incentives provide a better way of thinking about doing business. With the proper incentive program everyone will benefit. It’s not just putting an incentive in place, but it is getting it right.

Incentive trends in the past few years have been travel. Travel creates memories and that is a valuable return on your investment, but recent trends of rising costs in hotel and airfare have created shortages in the incentive budget. Large companies are wanting to keep budgets flat, even though travel costs are increasing.

We have noticed a trend to award management with higher-end merchandise choices and other employees with appropriate level gift choices. Our program not only creates memories, but also works within the budget restraints of companies and allows the recipient to choose the gift.

Contact us at ksyocum@gmail.com or visit us at http://www.ksyocum.com.

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