Posts Tagged ‘award’
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
The carrot or the stick- the age old question when it comes to staff motivation. In the 21st Century we like to think we’re a little more enlightened – no dark satanic mills for us, no sir. In a job market where the employee is king (well, until the recession came along, that is) it’s been all carrot and no stick.
And whilst the economic downturn may well have “redressed” the balance somewhat, the future is still orange! And it’s not all about money, other factors such as job security (very topical) and career developments are big winners. So what are the key issues to consider?
WHAT’S IN IT FOR THE COMPANY?
It’s very easy to get caught up with what works for the employee. Any scheme or incentive must be aligned with business goals and objectives. As with Investors in People, training incentives must have bottom line benefits for the company.
CREATE OWNERSHIP
Get your team involved up front. Buy in will come from involvement and that will effectively drive performance. Listen to what really motivates them and centre on that and that will effectively drive performance. Listen to what really motivates them and centre on that, especially for goal hungry sales staff.
BE COMPETITIVE
Check out the competition and make sure your scheme is up to scratch. Otherwise …..
MEASURE
If it can be measured, it can be managed. Staff will respond better to specific, measurable targets. Build in those KPI’s (key performance indicators).
EVALUATE
Don’t cast anything in stone; test, evaluate, review and develop. Failing schemes can be de-motivating and may see staff walk.
REWARD AND RECOGNISE
Finally, don’t forget to make individual or team achievements public and visible.
The Corporate Gifts Company has loads of great ideas to help your motivation scheme along. Staff will be highly motivated by awards, plaques, corporate jewellery such as lapel badges, or a well chosen gift to say thank you such as sterling business card case.
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
And cost effective way of inspiring your staff into going the extra mile is to reward them for working hard or well. Don’t just give everyone in your company a gift to say thank you (although that does work), it is far better to target your best workers intelligently, in this way you decrease your spend and maximise the effect.
At the Corporate Gifts Company we talk to end users everyday about their needs, a case in point which illustrates the above comments is that of a regular client of ours… The company in question is an independent Estate Agent in London, every year the company spends £20 on a Christmas gifts for the people who work there. This year was different because of necessary cost saving procedures. The MD still wanted to show his appreciation to his staff and ask me how… So I suggested that rather than the usual ~ £500 spend, why not run a internal competition with 5 Engraved Star Awards costing at total of: £200. Each of the 5 awards would be given to a member of staff once a month, at an impromptu and fun awards ceremony at the end of each month. The award could be kept on the recipient’s desk until a new winner is chosen the following month.
The Awards are:
- Best Monthly Sales
- Biggest Individual Sale
- Best Customer Service
- Best Administration
- Silliest Comment
This initiative increases productivity within the organisation; it evolves a fun environment to work in without taking it too far.
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
We just thought that we’d spend a little time showing some of our mock-ups off…
We often get companies asking us for bespoke products, awards, keyrings, jewellery, bottle stoppers and just about anything you can imagine! Our normal process is to get our graphics department to design a mock-up based on the logo & brief, we then get a quote based on mock-up.
Below are some examples of our recent concepts.
If you have a requirement for bespoke products then give us a go, we can normally get a design to you within 1 hour.
Some of our most popular bespoke items are:
- Bespoke Jewellery, in any shape or finish
- Custom Jewellery in precious metals
- Bespoke Awards in any shape
- Bespoke Awards in any size or material
- Bespoke Cufflinks:
- Engraved
- Hard enamelled
- Soft enamelled
- Epoxy domed insert
- Die Stamped
- 3D Moulded
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
The Corporate Gifts Company visited The Trophex Exhibition at the NEC today, in order to get lots of new ideas for Awards and Trophies for our clients. So watch this space… We have already been providing a bespoke awards service and are planning to massively increase this capability shortly.
So from Slate to Silver and Glass to Gold we’ll be able to help. In order to keep lead-time short, we’ll be stocking a selection of appropriate & easily personalised Awards to complement our premium range.
So if you have an awards evening coming up or perhaps a sporting event email us with your requirementa and we’ll get straight back to you with as many options as you’ll ever need.
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
When the Corporate Gifts Company started in business almost 20 years ago, all our promotional items and corporate gifts were either made by us, or other UK manufacturers. As with a lot of industries, we found we couldn’t compete with Far Eastern imports and reluctantly hung up our manufacturing boots, so to speak, and joined the masses importing from the Far East. We ensured we only worked with quality suppliers and the range of our products grew and grew.
With recent “reversals” in currency exchange rates (from an importers’ perspective of course) and soaring costs out of the Far East, suddenly “Made in the UK” is now less of rose tinted view of past times and more of a reality.
We at the Corporate Gift Company are only too happy to grab the opportunity of manufacturing again in the UK, and we are currently working on lots of new ideas to launch in the new year. There are lots of benefits that will directly effect the service and product we can offer.
1. Made in the UK means a vastly reduced carbon footprint – no shipping a promotional product from one side of the world to another.
2. Although we always strive to work only with ethical suppliers (as you can see from our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy, manufacturing ourselves or with well known UK companies means that ethical issues are even more assured.
3. Faster turn around times. Obviously when we have an item in stock our turnaround times for plain or branded promotional items are second to none. But the time for replenishing stock from the Far East is becoming longer and longer. Items made in the UK will be faster.
4. Bespoke Items (awards, trophies, plaques, corporate jewellery) will become even more flexible with more options and faster turnarounds.
So, watch this space. There’ll be loads of new and exciting product launched on the website in January.
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