Our Customer Service Program Manager, Gail Martinn, celebrates an extraordinary milestone of 30 years at Next Level Performance.
Improving Employee Retention in a Strong Economy
In a strong economy, it’s important to cultivate a strong workplace culture within your business. Professionals rank their work environment as the most important factor when determining their satisfaction with their job. Pay raises and promotions are ineffectual drivers of employee engagement when compared to culture.
Employee Engagement: How We Do It at Next Level
As an incentive, recognition, and engagement solutions provider, it’s pretty important that we practice what we preach. After all, we need to be sure that every member of our team has reason to believe in what we do every day, and is willing to commit their best efforts. So when it comes to employee engagement, here’s how we do it at Next Level.
Next Level Teammate Spotlight – Jamie Santiago
At Next Level Performance we recognize our employee’s contributions every quarter through the Teammate of the Quarter Award. With many nominations this quarter, the spotlight is on Jamie Santiago who had a very successful quarter working on graphic designs for incentive travel programs.
Flexibility in the Workplace – A Key to Optimizing Results
Letting employees micromanage their own schedules and work arrangements is the first step to optimizing results. The strongest efforts come from self-motivated employees with harmonious work and personal lives. Workplace flexibility is key to employee engagement.
Human Capital – Your Company’s Greatest Asset
Today’s top companies are valued by their intangible assets. Aspects like company culture and employee retention are essential to a company’s success. Research by the Incentive Research Foundation provides insight on how managers could best take advantage of incentive programs to increase the quality of their firms through the right combinations of rewards.
What do LinkedIn’s Top Companies Have in Common?
Organizations are finding out that it takes more than enticing perks to attract and retain top talent. From well-known companies to less recognizable organizations, they all have these things in common, making them the top companies people want to work for.
Next Level Teammate Spotlight – Kolleen Whitley
How do we recognize our outstanding teammates here at Next Level Performance? Kolleen Whitley describes how she contributes to the success of our company every day, for which she has been recognized.
The Unfriendly Skies: Why United Should Have Gone With Non-Cash Rewards
With the solid foundation of reasonable pay, non-cash rewards are more memorable, have a higher perceived value, and the recognition experience is baked into the employer brand.
Next Level Teammate Spotlight – Shannon Prekop
Each quarter we give teammates the opportunity to nominate one of their peers for outstanding work. For the last quarter of 2017, we celebrate Shannon Prekop.
2008: What Does HR Look Like 10 Years Later?
Ten Years ago: “In 2018, work will consist of transient teams made up of internal and external workers, HR officials will assume many more seats on corporate boards, and leaders increasingly will be held accountable for their talent management decisions.”
The Science of Rewards and Recognition
A first-of-a-kind experiment in the field of rewards and recognition used biometric techniques to test two hypotheses. Here’s how it tested and showed non-cash rewards are preferred.