Employees seek fulfillment, opportunity, and recognition for their efforts, not perks. An environment in which people feel recognized, welcomed, and appreciated is key to maintaining a competitive, productive business.
How Your Personality Type Could Influence Business Success
Teams consisting of people with complementary skillsets and perspectives influence progress and business development. Cognitive diversity is key to spotting inefficiencies and improving productivity. Oppositely, teams consisting of similar people continuously operate under the same methodology that has historically worked for them despite changing industry standards, causing them to fall behind competitors.
The Current State of Employee Engagement
Employee engagement is at its highest point in decades. However, the majority of employees in the US workforce remain disengaged. Keeping up with trends in employee engagement and developing well-designed employee recognition programs is key to business success.
The Employee Experience – A Balancing Act
90% of companies compete on the basis of customer experience. Since employee engagement is vital to the overall satisfaction of the end-consumer, ensuring exceptional employee experience within the workplace is key to the overall success of a company. Creating the optimal employee experience is a balancing act that starts with recognition.
Research Indicates Increased Return on Incentive Travel Programs
When it’s time to plan your incentive travel program or to defend your recommendation to senior leaders, it can be challenging to know where you stand. How do you know if your program is on-target, and how it compares to other organizations? In a recent joint study, the Incentive Research Foundation (IRF), SITE, and Financial and Insurance Conference Planners (FICP) conducted the largest incentive travel survey to date and came up with a helpful incentive travel program benchmark.
We Love Our Applaudit Recognition Platform and You Will, Too
As an incentive and recognition provider, our team is definitely committed to engagement and has given our Applaudit recognition platform a good workout over the last months. Here’s what we learned.
30 Years with Next Level Performance – Gail Martin
Our Customer Service Program Manager, Gail Martinn, celebrates an extraordinary milestone of 30 years at Next Level Performance.
Traveling the Pacific Northwest
From the buzzing city of Vancouver to lush forests and national parks, there is a lot to experience in the Pacific Northwest. Road trips far away from home can help you disconnect from the everyday obligations of work, so you could reconnect with yourself. Travel is proven to drive productivity and happiness. Here is a description of what there is to see away from home.
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.
Sales Incentives – 5 Action Items for an Effective Program
Sales incentive programs must be carefully planned in order to observe a long-term improvement in productivity. Although many programs guarantee a return on investment, companies who adopt poorly designed programs risk wasting money and losing the interest of their employees. Here are five key items for consideration when designing a sales incentive program.