Get to Know ME with Alison Gavitt
It’s time for our Get to Know ME segment, featuring our Strategic Account Director, Alison Gavitt. Alison is a people person through and through! Read below to learn about her penchant for furniture moving, as well as how she prepares for a good brainstorming session. And be sure to watch her short video too. Do you hear a regional accent? Thanks Alison, for letting us get to know you better!
What’s your current title and how long have you been in the incentive industry?
I am a Strategic Account Director and I’ve been in the incentive industry since 2009, and in hotel sales before that.
What do you like about your job?
Building relationships with clients and creating strategic solutions. I consider myself an extension of my clients’ team which gives me a great feeling of satisfaction.
What’s something you want to share about the people you work with at Motivation Excellence?
Everyone has a fun spirit – always smiles, kindness and patience going around!
What’s a specific moment in your history that always stands out as a defining moment, and why?
Moving home (Huntsville, AL) six years ago after living in Jackson Hole, WY for the better part of 30 years. I can replay every mile of the 3-day drive.
What’s an unknown or odd talent you have?
An odd thing we do in our family is rearranging the furniture! We all do it – all the time. Upon a simple suggestion, we tend to drop everything and just start moving furniture. From time to time, we change up bedrooms and switch up living rooms.
What motivates you to accomplish things in your life (work or personal)?
My children. I have two girls, one at Wake Forest University and the other is at the University of Alabama.
What do you enjoy doing outside of work?
I enjoy being outside as much as possible. Although I am born and raised in Huntsville, AL where I live now, I lived the majority of my adult life in Jackson Hole, WY – so skiing, hiking, biking, camping – are all on the top of my list. I also love going to the lake, SEC football, and traveling.
One thing that always makes you laugh is?
This ridiculous social media reel where two young men take their grandfather to Starbucks and have him make a fake order. I can’t ever get that out of my head, and I’m determined to replicate this with my kids and my mother.
What’s a bucket list item you can’t wait to cross off?
Visiting Japan is at the very top of the list. Iceland and a transatlantic voyage are close seconds.
This month, our theme for social media is “Brainstorming.” Do you have a favorite technique or environment to loosen up your thoughts for maximum idea generation?
I’m a dedicated user of Bose noise-cancelling headphones. I put on my headphones, turn off all devices, and I create and institute a vision in absolute peace.
4 Reasons to Take a Good Look at Our Group Travel Incentives
The Motivation Excellence team takes great pride in the fact that we are a full-service incentives, group travel, meetings, and events agency. We know how important travel is as a desirable reward. We take every detail of a group travel incentive seriously. Because of that, your participants will seriously enjoy each element.
Incentive travel is always about the experience. We elevate the experience so everything from arriving at the airport to taking in local fare to interacting with company leadership is an opportunity for smiles and feeling truly special.
If you have been looking for a partner who will take the stress out of your next group travel experience, here are four good reasons to take a look at the group travel incentives we offer:
1. We Take Care of the Details, Including Contract Negotiations
Our team is skilled at contract negotiations with hotels and suppliers. We know how to manage risk, bolster budgets and alleviate headaches with every contract. As an extension of your team, we are happy to dig into the details so you can focus on other important elements like personal engagement with your stakeholders.
Your dedicated Motivation Excellence travel team handles everything from selecting table linens to hiring the keynote speaker and world-renowned band. F&B, hotel attrition rates, green room requests, transportation options all have their own language. We are fluent!
2. We Handle Registration, Engagement and Follow Up
You and your team have enough on your plates. We have the solution (or two!). Our proprietary travel technology, Inspire, makes organizing, engaging and following-up with your attendees simple and actually, kind of fun! Send us your participant list and let us handle registration, air booking, activity selection and special requests. Each of your attendees will have access to the mobile version so their personalized travel experience is always in the palm of their hand. Your team will have access to drilled down reports all in one place.
Inspire can easily be used to engage your group before the experience with information on the destination, special events and FAQs. During the event you can send out alerts via Inspire. Participants can upload photos to the gallery to share with the group. And there’s no need for printed itineraries since each participant’s schedule is easy to access on the mobile site.
3. We Manage the Entire Experience
Incentive travel programs have a lot of moving parts. Our team of experts has decades of experience with creating and executing award-winning travel experiences. We’re here to assist your team and can take it all on, or pick up the details your team assigns to us. We’re adept at handling the entire experience including:
- Travel logistics
- Group functions
- On-site activities
- Off-site events
- Gifting experiences
- Marketing support
We go above and beyond basic group travel incentives to make sure your participants will be talking about your most recent event for a long time to come. And that’s a natural motivator to make sure they earn the experience every year after!
4. We’re a Full-service Incentive Agency
A successful incentive group travel program starts with creating the rule structure for your participants. This is a sweet spot of ours. We love to dig into industry history, company sales data and potential sales growth within your participant pool. This helps you mitigate risk and maximize opportunities.
We also geek out a bit about building custom performance tracking websites that become the one-stop-shop for everything program related. Easy to read performance to goal gauges are great for participants and our ability to create detailed dashboards for you provides valuable business intelligence that sometimes you didn’t even know you were missing!
Do you need to include some business during your incentive travel reward? We’re adept at planning and executing thoughtful, interactive and motivating meetings on-site. Add in marketing support to create robust engagement around your program and the rewards, and we’ve got you covered on every front. You don’t have to use us for everything, but you have the option to on any program we run.
At Motivation Excellence we’re committed to making your travel incentive program shine from beginning to end, and top to bottom. Our goal is to help you maximize the incentive value by creating an experience unmatched by anything else you have ever done.
Get to Know ME with Sheri Racine
It’s time to get to know one of our newer colleagues! Sheri Racine started in June of 2024, getting several months of training from our long-time Merchandise Buyer, before retiring. We’re happy to have Sheri take on the role and bring a new perspective to the team. Please read on, and watch her short video, to learn about her passion outside of work and what she loves doing with her family. Thanks Sheri for participating in our Get to Know ME segment this month!
What’s your current title and how long have you been in the incentive industry?
I am the Merchandise Buyer and I started four months ago, in June 2024. I am new to the incentive industry and excited to be here!
What do you like about your job?
The people I work with, both internally as well as our suppliers. Everyone is so willing to step in and assist.
What’s something you want to share about the people you work with at Motivation Excellence?
They are all amazing. Truly like a family.
What’s a defining moment in your life?
I created a successful product for a previous employer, and ten years later I was on a plane with my family, and it was in the Skymall catalog! It was fun to be able to show it to my children.
What’s an unknown or odd talent you have?
Home Renovations. I love seeing something in a room that can transform it into something completely different and wonderful.
What motivates you to accomplish things in your life (work or personal)?
My children do. I always strive to be someone they look up to. Showing them that you can have a family and work is important.
One thing that always makes you laugh is?
Quick witted people.
What do you enjoy doing outside of work?
I love attending concerts with my family. We love exposing our children to a wide array of genres.
What’s a bucket list item you can’t wait to cross off?
A trip to Italy – hoping to go soon.
This month, our theme for social media is “Workplace Harassment Awareness/Prevention.” Is this important to you? Why or why not?
Yes, I think it’s very important. Everyone should feel comfortable in the workplace.
Get to Know ME with Iris Huisman
If you want to have a talk with a calming personality, look no further than Iris Huisman (pronounced Ear-ess House-man). No wonder she excels in the sometimes hectic incentive, meetings and events industry; she’s cool under pressure and makes you feel like “everything is going to be alright.” Thank you Iris for participating in our Get to Know ME segment. Read on, and watch her video, to get to know her better.
What’s your current title and how long have you been in the incentive industry?
I am a Program Manager as part of the Travel Department at Motivation Excellence. I started my career in the M&IT industry as a graduate trainee in England way back in 1997. I have had many roles in the industry since then, both on the client side as well as for a DMC and of course many years on the agency side. Wearing many different hats has given me a unique perspective when helping clients find the best solutions for their meetings and incentive programs.
What do you like about your job?
I love the variety this work provides and seeing the end result when lots of planning and creative thinking comes to fruition. Of course, the opportunity to travel is nice too; I am fortunate to have experienced many great destinations all over the world.
What’s something you want to share about the people you work with at Motivation Excellence?
The people I work with on my team at Motivation Excellence care a lot about doing what is right for our clients and providing the best service. But more than that, the team really cares about each other, and that is something that I think makes this a great place to work.
What’s a specific moment in your history that always stands out as a defining moment, and why?
Wow, that is a tough question. There have been quite a few pivotal moments in my life: moving to England when I was 18 with the plan to stay for only a year, and staying for almost 13, moving to the United States in 2006, dealing with the loss of my dad, stepdad and mum all in quick succession; all of these moments have had a profound impact on shaping me into the person I am today.
What’s an unknown or odd talent you have?
I wish I could say that I inherited my dad’s musical talent. He was a musician all his life, but no amount of piano and flute lessons could ever get me to come even close.
What motivates you to accomplish things in your life (work or personal)?
Maybe cheesy, but my kids are my biggest motivator – showing up for them and everything they want to achieve in life has been driving me forward toward bigger and better things. I want them to know that their mum has done, is doing, and will do her best to support them.
What do you enjoy doing outside of work?
I love hiking and taking in the beauty that is all around us here in North Georgia (when it is not 100 degrees 😊). I love to run and play tennis. And if I had my way, I would live somewhere where I could go skiing regularly. I also like to read – Ken Follett has been a favorite of mine recently.
One thing that always makes you laugh is?
Good comedy! I love Bill Burr and Ricky Gervais; their sense of humor speaks to me.
What’s a bucket list item you can’t wait to cross off?
I am really hoping to have the opportunity to take my kids on safari in Africa. I was fortunate to plan and operate a few programs on the African continent and it has left a lasting impression on me; I want them to have that experience too.
This month, our theme for social media is “Learning Styles.” Do you prefer to learn in a certain way? How do you make sure you’re digesting work information in the best way for you?
I think my learning style is a mixture of things; I am more of a kinesthetic than an auditory learner, but for some things, logical/analytical learning works better. To digest certain information, I am still a little old school and like to print certain documents out, so I can take notes while learning the material.
Using the Power of Spurt Programs to Motivate Sales
Effective engagement with sales teams or customers is a long-term enterprise. Yet there are plenty of short-term goals to reach along the way. Consider sales cycles. Engaging with and motivating a sales team during a cycle can mean good things for sales reps and great things for your bottom line. Enter the spurt program.
By their nature, spurt or spiff programs are short term events designed to accelerate brand awareness or product sales. A spurt program can run for an entire quarter. It could run for just 2-4 weeks.
Program Purpose and Structure
Turning to spurt programs for sales team/customer engagement is based on the principle of injecting a quick burst of urgency and excitement into a sales cycle. They are great at motivating sales members to reach short term goals by offering a meaningful reward. A spurt program can:
- Increase sales team efforts
- Drive focus to one product area
- Motivate competition
- Inject some fresh incentives into an ongoing rewards program
A good spurt program has a deadline that incentivizes sales team members to go all out until the program ends. In addition, spurt programs should have clear and measurable objectives.
The Right Rewards Make a Difference
One of the keys to successful spurt programs is choosing the right rewards. Within a sales cycle, you are looking to reward participants with things that actually interest them. The rewards themselves should be motivators above and beyond reaching sales goals. If you can personalize rewards, all the better.
Individual travel experiences tend to be motivational for sales team members. The opportunity to get away on a personalized adventure with a loved one adds excitement and purpose. Another option is a points program. At Motivation Excellence, top performers can take advantage of using their points nearly any way they want through our Concierge Shopping Service.
Check Out MaxRewardsYourWay
We believe so much in spurt programs that we’ve designed our MaxRewardsYourWay platform to enhance them. We invite you to learn more about it by checking out the dedicated page we’ve put together on our website.
MaxRewardsYourWay allows companies to create customized reward packages based on goals, budget and item preferences. Rewards can include everything from travel to lifestyle upgrades (think Napa getaways, new fitness accessories or game room tech). Marketing these reward packages is easy. And, it’s a perfect reward option for companies who want low overhead and excellent return on investment.
Lastly, we offer the flexibility to change elements in the package. If one of your participants earns the Kitchen Gadget Upgrade Package but already has the coffee maker included in it, that person can contact our Concierge Shopping Service to swap it for something else.
Different Ways to Run Spurt Programs
Spurt programs are highly flexible and don’t need a lot of prep time to get them launched. There are multiple ways to set up and run a program. Depending on your goals, a short-term incentive program can reward for total volume of sales, quantity of product shipped or the best increase over the last sales cycle. You can reward only a few people or spread out the opportunities so more people are motivated to participate. Rewards can increase as sales levels do. Sell 10 x-ray machines and earn package A. Sell 15 and earn package B, and so on. They can also be a sweepstakes format. It all depends on what you’re trying to achieve.
Regardless of how spurt programs are structured, they represent a fun and exciting way to inject motivation into a sales team and boost your bottom line!
How to Personalize Group Travel Programs with Motivation Excellence
Personalization and group travel may seem like they don’t mesh. We are happy to say they can! There are numerous ways to personalize group travel programs, whether you are putting together an incentive travel program for employees or channel partners.
Group travel is something we specialize in at Motivation Excellence. Our planners incorporate plenty of personalized options to make our travel programs feel one-of-a-kind the people earning them. Here are a few ways we do just that:
1. Offer a Variety of Activities
Group travel doesn’t have to mean the exact same activities for every participant. Group travel program itineraries can be quite flexible, including a variety of choices. By offering many activities and the ability to choose, you give participants an opportunity to help craft an adventure they will genuinely appreciate.
We recommend putting together a list of activities with broad appeal. The idea is to have something for everyone. You might offer fitness activities along with golf, an adventure experience, spa sessions, and local tours. And don’t underestimate “at leisure” time. It’s consistently a winner with our participants.
2. Make Dining More Intimate
It has been our experience that group travel participants appreciate a more intimate dining experience, so they have an opportunity to spend quality time with executives or preferred suppliers.
Vendor-sponsored dinners allow participants to have access to product managers, and vice versa. If you’re hosting a channel partner incentive travel experience, connecting your distributors with favorite suppliers creates great relationships, with you right in the middle. If you’re running an internal sales incentive, giving top performers time to meet with the C-suite is very motivating.
3. Use the Motivation Excellence Inspire Platform
We’ve saved the best tip for last: use the Motivation Excellence Inspire technology for group travel. Inspire is a truly unique platform that puts personalized itineraries right in your travelers’ hands. Group dinners, individual activity selections, flights and more are easy to access via a phone or computer.
Inspire is completely customizable to match your company’s colors, logo and style. From program registration to plane seat preference to FAQs about your destination, Inspire helps engage your participants before, during and after your group travel event.
Some Things to Keep in Mind
Motivation Excellence takes incentive group travel to new levels. We use only highly-rated hotel properties and provide only the best staff to ensure flawless execution on-site.
Notice, we don’t call these “trips.” Anyone can take a trip. We provide experiences that people cannot plan on their own; experiences that are truly memorable and motivating.
Group travel doesn’t have to be static. It does not need to be a one-size-fits-all experience. Whether you are putting together a program for employees, channel partners or favorite vendors, we can help you personalize the program so that every participant feels like the experience was made just for them!
In Rewards and Recognition, Leadership Enthusiasm Is Critical
Both personalized rewards and travel incentives can improve engagement, boost morale, and contribute to greater productivity. But if an organization expects its incentivization efforts to pay off in the long run, there is a critical ingredient that cannot be ignored: leadership enthusiasm. Leadership needs to do more than endorse programs on paper. They need to be personally involved.
A March 2024 post by Forbes Council’s Member David Grossman drives home this point really well. We will borrow from Grossman’s post while adding our own thoughts. When all is said and done, we hope you walk away with a better understanding of how leadership impacts both the tangible and intangible benefits of personalized rewards and employee recognition.
Leadership Was Into It
Grossman began his post by discussing a recent experience that had made a huge impression on him. As he put it, he “had the opportunity to observe an exemplary employee recognition program in action.” The program was designed to award employees who demonstrated the company’s values in remarkable ways.
That alone says something. The employer went beyond offering personalized rewards and recognition just to increase engagement or boost productivity. They actually want their employees to live out company values as they do what they do. They want company culture to be more than words on paper. They want it to define how employees do what they do.
At any rate, Grossman observed that company leadership was really into the recognition part of the program. During the official recognition ceremony, leadership described how award winners exemplified company values. They described how the award winners went above and beyond to meet the needs of both clients and colleagues.
The Excitement Was Palpable
According to Grossman, the excitement in the room was palpable. There was an energy not seen in most employee recognition events. Most importantly, all the employees were able to see first-hand that company leadership actually believed in what they were doing. They saw that their leaders were genuinely enthusiastic about recognizing employees for their exemplary work.
It’s Not Always That Way
Unfortunately, what Grossman observed is not the standard for every company. In fact, he cited statistics from a Gallup poll showing just the opposite. According to the poll:
- 40% of American employees receive recognition a few times per year or less.
- Just 23% reported that their employers had recognition programs in place.
Things do not have to be this way. In fact, they should not. The same Gallup poll reveals that employees who are regularly recognized for doing well are four times more likely to be engaged at work. They are also 73% less likely to report burnout.
More Than Just a Human Resource
Perhaps a good way to summarize everything Grossman wrote in his post is to say that American workers want to be treated like they are more than just human resources. They want to be treated as partners with ideas to contribute, visions for the company, and the ability to serve clients without being tethered.
Personalized rewards and recognition programs cannot meet every employee engagement need in the modern workforce. But they can go a long way toward demonstrating to employees that they are human beings with value rather than just easily replaced resources.
Just remember this one thing: the success of any rewards or recognition program is intrinsically tied to leadership enthusiasm. Leadership needs to buy-in, both on paper and through actively participating in recognizing hard working employees. The more enthusiasm leadership displays, the more enthusiasm they will encourage in their employees. Ultimately, that’s what makes all this work.
How Engaging Family Members Can Boost Your Sales Incentive Programs
The companies we work with sincerely want engaged channel partners. It is one of the reasons they offer incentive programs for channel partners. But did you know that incentivizing channel partners doesn’t begin and end in the workplace? It also extends to family members.
One of the rarely talked about secrets of using incentive programs to boost channel partner engagement is getting family members involved. There are numerous ways to engage with family members. At the top of the list is to include them in incentive program communications. That way, they can get excited about the incentives as well. They can become cheerleaders at home.
Incentivize the Entire Family
Along the many incentive and reward programs we offer are personal rewards designed for individual channel partners. We can help your company design a package that uniquely fits your workforce. Personal reward options include things like:
- Dining experiences.
- Individual travel experiences.
- Tickets to concerts and sporting events.
- Music and book subscriptions.
Many of our reward options don’t just benefit the single channel partner. They benefit the entire family. One channel partner might take a spouse to the fanciest restaurant they have ever been to. Another might share tickets to the year’s hottest concert with every member of the family. It is not just the channel partner who winds up being incentivized; the entire family is incentivized.
At home, family members can cheer on the channel partner, encouraging them to be the best possible salesperson. And when the salesperson succeeds, the whole family gets rewarded. Talk about building excitement at home. Nothing else compares.
Involving Families in Incentive Engagement Pays Off in Multiple Ways
Involving families in channel partner engagement has a direct impact by encouraging family members to support their loved ones as they help them to be the best they can be. But there are indirect ways through which family member incentivization pays off. Let us look at a few:
- Financial Security – Modern families long for a sense of financial security. That being the case, some are unwilling to spend money on life’s little extras because they don’t want to jeopardize the budget. Providing those little extras through a channel partner incentive program enables families to enjoy some nice things while still being confident about their finances.
- Work-Life Balance – Work-life balance is an ongoing pursuit for salespeople of all ages. When personal rewards can be shared with family members, every experience becomes a step toward better balance. That makes for more close-knit families.
- Increased Engagement – Americans sincerely want what is best for their families. When they see family members benefiting from their own incentive programs, it makes them feel good. They are more engaged at work as a result. After all, they want to earn those rewards so they can share them with the family.
- Improved Emotional Wellness – Family members cheering one another on in pursuit of a shared goal find strength and unity in doing so. That can make for better emotional wellness, both at work and at home.
It is easy to look at channel partner programs as little more than a way to retain good business. Personalized rewards can do just that. But they can do so much more. One of the things we have learned here at Motivation Excellence is that engaging family members makes an incentive program much more effective.
If you would like to learn how to include family members in your channel partner engagement efforts, reach out to Motivation Excellence right away. We have all sorts of incentives and rewards that fit perfectly with the idea of getting family members involved.
The Motivation Excellence Team Mourns the Loss of Leader David Jobes
The loss of David Jobes will be felt by all who worked alongside him at Motivation Excellence. As a leader in the performance improvement and incentive industry, David helped create an award-winning culture, as well as a competitive and long-standing company in a niche community. Motivation Excellence is 39 years old, with David being an integral part of it for the last 32 years.
David bought Motivation Excellence six years ago, after serving as long-time President. While leading the company he molded the culture of the business to reflect his values of respect, integrity, trust, exceeding expectations, charity, collaboration and environmental stewardship.
Award-Winning
David made it a goal to be an employer of choice when he purchased the company in 2018. Since that time, Motivation Excellence has been honored with six years of being named a Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® recipient, both locally and nationally.
He was thrilled when his team recently won back-to-back Society for Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE) Crystal Awards for outstanding travel programs too. He believed that when his people felt secure and valued, their clients ultimately benefited from it. Thinking like an owner and treating everyone with respect were hallmarks David preached to his team.
A New Work Environment
David moved the company’s Schaumburg, IL headquarters in 2020. The new building offered upgraded amenities and the ability to build out a dream work environment. He worked closely with his designer to create a collaborative, open workspace that included eco-friendly and vegan materials from the ceiling tiles to the coasters in the meeting rooms.
Expansion
At the end of 2021, David purchased VIKTOR Incentives & Meetings. The newly-merged companies quickly became one team with two locations. Under his leadership, everyone at Motivation Excellence exudes the work ethic and shared values to create programs that Inspire Extraordinary Performance.
Legacy
As the driving force behind constantly improving company culture and client experiences, he inspired those he worked with to be lifelong learners and strive for the next level in personal and professional growth areas. Under his direction, the company donated more than $100,000 to various charities, most of which were hand-selected by his employees. He was especially pleased to help support Ingage Unlimited, an international volunteer training organization that sends groups to impoverished locations throughout the world to provide training in the areas of education, healthcare, business and leadership development.
His team will continue David’s legacy through exemplary service to their clients, each other, and the community. The entire Motivation Excellence team sends their deepest sympathies to his family.
How Custom Incentives & Rewards Can Revolutionize Your Employee Engagement
Motivation Excellence specializes in developing and implementing employee rewards and incentive programs. A reward points program is a perfect fit for employees and can encompass recognition and achievements. The best part is that with our personalized rewards solution, the points can be used for almost anything! In recent years, we’ve noticed a greater focus on custom rewards within our client base. We have several ways to reward your best people in exactly the way they want to be rewarded. There’s no better incentive!
One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Being an employer of choice has always had a prominent place in workforce history, but since the pandemic, adding motivational benefits to an employee package is critical. We saw with the Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting, that engagement is key to keeping top talent. Having a reward and recognition, or incentive program, in play is a great way to increase engagement. The reward structure is paramount to a program’s success. Rewards shouldn’t be a one size fits all solution. When you offer a personalized reward to an employee the motivation to achieve the goal you want them to meet or exceed grows. If you haven’t started offering your employees the power to choose their own rewards, now is the time to start. The opportunity to earn a family vacation might be a winner for Sue, but Tom really wants to update his game room. With a reward point program through Motivation Excellence, Sue and Tom are both motivated to succeed because they can use their points on exactly what they want.
Recognition Is a Big Thing
Whether you want to run a reward and recognition program to highlight your employees’ milestones or an incentive program to motivate them to reach higher goals, with a well-designed program you’ll find eager participants. People want to be recognized for their accomplishments. They want their employers to notice and give value to their ideas, efforts, and loyalty. In fact, one survey among American workers revealed that 40% said they would likely put more energy into their work if they were recognized more often.
Employee recognition improves engagement. According to Gallup, companies with the highest level of employee engagement are 21% more profitable than those with the lowest levels. It comes down to a simple equation: recognition boosts engagement and engagement increases profitability.
All of this is well and good, but what does it have to do with customizing employee incentive programs? Giving people the ability to choose their reward experience is much more motivating than giving them a pin on their 20th anniversary or a gift card to the company store when they receive a great customer review. When an employee has some say in how they’re recognized, engagement flourishes and an emotional bond is established.
Applying Customization to Employee Incentives
There are many avenues to explore when it comes to personalizing employee incentives. Our online award offerings can be customized to include only certain items and categories, or you can keep the full gamut of thousands of options so employees can choose from trending electronics, sporting equipment, airline tickets and so much more! Some of our clients like to offer a select number of lifestyle upgrade packages. Each package is the same value, but focuses on a different theme, like culinary, fitness, travel and home entertainment. Our Concierge Shopping option allows point recipients to use their points nearly any way they can think of, including, vacation home rentals, college tuition for their child, lunch at a French castle…we’ve even purchased a cow at auction for a participant who wanted to give it to his granddaughter for a 4H project!
Having a choice in how they’re rewarded makes employees feel like they are true participants rather than just recipients of whatever reward their employers thought was best. And like everything else in the employment realm, making employees feel like an integral part of the success of your business also encourages them to take ownership of their role in it.
Customization works because what might be important to you will not be important to everyone else on your team. Customization avoids the temptation to offer the same incentive to every employee and expect all of them to embrace it with equal enthusiasm.
Customization Is Where It’s At
Don’t miss out on retaining top talent because they’re lured to another company with better incentives. Utilizing customization when it comes to retention is a great addition to any benefits package you have. We’d be happy to take a look at what you’re doing in that arena and see if one of our solutions would create more engagement for your team. Contact us today to design your employee engagement and rewards program.
