Posts Tagged ‘Corporate Plaques’


How do you can give recognition towards work unpaid overtime?

 Friday, July 10th, 2009

The total value of unpaid after-hours work across the UK hit a record £26.9bn in 2008, the Trade Union Congress claimed. In its study of unpublished data from the National Statistics Labour Force Survey (LFS) and Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, the TUC calculated that 5.24 million people across the UK worked unpaid overtime in 2008.

Londoners faced the biggest hike in unpaid overtime, with an extra 79,000 workers going beyond the call of duty in 2008. The number of people working unpaid overtime fell by 26,000 elsewhere in the south east of England, and by 11,000 in Scotland.
A TUC general secretary said that the numbers doing unpaid overtime has increased for the second year in a row. While some of this is due to the long-hours culture that still dogs too many British workplaces, the recession will now be making many people scared of losing their job in the year ahead and joining the ever-growing dole-queue.
Inevitably people will be putting in extra hours if they think it can help protect against redundancy or keep their employer in business.
He also acknowledged that some people are happy to volunteer extra time, but should not be abused. We don’t’ want to turn into a nation of clock watchers – most people enjoy their jobs and don’t mind putting in extra effort when there is a rush or an emergency – but that easily turns into the long hours culture of extra hours every week. In smart workplaces, people work fewer hours.

So give a corporate gift is a great idea to express recognition and gratitude towards your employees and colleagues.

The Corporate Gifts Company has a huge range of promotional gifts ideal to help you:

• Madrid Aluminium Business Card Case

• Black Leather Desk Pad

• Sterling Silver Gifts Keyring

• Pop-Up Mini Pen

• Plaques

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How can you keep morale high in a recession?

 Thursday, June 18th, 2009

The best managed companies and organisations will keep staff morale high during the economic downturn by capturing hearts and minds. There are seven core actions that will help companies achieve this motivation nirvana:

• Communicate Direction – provide clarity of strategy – use good communication to make sure your staff know where they’re going and give them the confidence that the leadership in the company are in place.

• Instil trust and confidence in your most committed and focused employees – who will also provide confidence for other employees.

• Address core concerns – communicate to each individual what’s expected of them, how they should behave and what they need to achieve.

• Put staff in positions suited to their particular skills and ambitions – give them time and support to succeed.

• Act quickly – inactivity creates a vacuum, leaving your staff worried and unfortunately free to draw their own (often incorrect) conclusions.

• Keep investing in R&D – innovation is even more important now in the credit crunch than ever before.

• Reward positive behaviour – it’s important that when staff perform and are adding value to the organisation that this is recognised and communicated throughout the company. This will reinforce good practice and motivate other staff.

Introduce a reward or motivation scheme, or recognise staff with individual awards.

The Corporate Gifts Co can supply single engraved items, awards and plaques for recognition or general promotional gifts for schemes or programmes.

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Corporate Gifts Bespoke Plaques

 Monday, April 28th, 2008

Bespoke Plaques

Got a message you wish to share? Or even wish to reward someone and make them known within the work place. Then corporate gifts plaques are just right for what you need. Give a large engraved message via a wide space.

Corporate gifts plaques are great for making an impression which lasts within your clients or offices minds for a long time to come. Plaques are a great way to promote your company in an old fashioned well known method.

Promotional Plaques can be bought in different sizes which give you full benefit to promote and boost your company on. They are a great way to say thanks to a work college or even give to someone as a business gift so the remember you and your company.

The corporate gifts company have a wide range of promotional plaques which can all be engraved with your promotional logo or message allowing you maximum potential when trying to promote your company.

The promotional plaques come in a various range of sizes which include. The corporate gifts co can supply plaques in sizes 5 X 7, 6 X 8, 7 X 9, 8 X 10. We feel doing such a wide range of sizes gives you full potential to promote your company in an old fashioned way with a new modern twist.

Everyone in a work place loves to be rewarded and be given some credit for the work and effort they do to help your company grow and survive. Giving a corporate gift plaque is a great way to promote your company as well as giving your staff something to work harder towards.

The corporate gifts company work hard to make sure you get the best products at the best prices and we hope we are keeping this up. We also realise that choosing a good image or logo or even choosing your corporate gifts can be a difficult thing to do. The corporate gifts company have a new promotional blog where you will be able to find lots of information and help as to regards choosing your corporate gifts.

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