Humble Beginnings

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Upon graduating college, Michael Arkes had a job lined up in Champaign, Illinois as a math teacher. Prior to starting his new teaching job, he “took a weekend off” to go up to Chicago to help his father out some with the family business. Forty years later, Arkes has made “helping with the family business” into a successful career.
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Use Social Media to Tell Employees How Awesome They Are!

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This brought back the idea to me. Most companies restrict access to most social media sites. So that takes the idea out of starting off a program using things like Facebook and Twitter groups for workplace recognition. However, I realized that our place, along with several other offices that I know of, still allow LinkedIn access. So what's an easy way for recognition?
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After nearly 40 years...we've still got it!

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Things have come a long way since Hinda had its first set of offices on Printer’s Row. In the 1970s, Hinda purchased 120 Casio calculators to qualify as a distributor, convincing an auto parts company to use them as an incentive for selling parts. Now Hinda boasts an inventory of over 3,500 products in our current 75,000 square foot facility. We’ve gone from Therese Brisard manually writing down invoices onto index cards to pioneering online incentive programs.
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Apolo Ohno: Dedication For His Day Job

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How often do employees put in the same dedication to their job? It's rare to hear of someone putting forth that much work and effort into what they do for a living. Sure, there are different ultimate aspirations and your company's accountant is not likely going to have their face on a Wheaties box at the end of the day. However, it often takes more than just the base salary to garner that extra dedication into an employee's work. Incentives programs, designed to fit the employees' specific needs, will help root out complacency in day-to-day work. Rewards accompanied by an equally appropriate amount of recognition can do wonders for performance and influencing work behavior.
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