The pressure for public companies to disclose investments in human capital, including engagement, continues to mount. The Human Capital Management Coalition (the HCM Coalition) recently petitioned the Securities & Exchange Commission to adopt or amend existing rules related to Rule 192 ... [ read more ]
By any objective measure, formal investments in engaging the people critical to an organization's success provides a long-term return, and more major investors know it. See ESM: "S.E.C. Petitioned to Mandate Disclosure of Human Capital Investments, Engagement." Or, consider the latest results of the EEA's Engaged Company Stock Index-up nearly 30% over the S&P 500 index since Oct. 1, 2012... [ read more ]
What would you rather have: Time or money? To Ashley Whillans, Assistant Professor, Negotiations, Organizations and Markets at the Harvard Business School, the answer says a lot about what will motivate you, as well as your long-range potential for happiness. It's a simple question, she says, that should be added to every employee or customer engagement survey, because the answer is critical to understanding, in general, how to engage anyone in business or life. ... [ read more ]
With more investors demanding that public companies invest in human capital and engagement, and the economics of engagement proven beyond logical dispute, ISO 10018 standards have the potential to shake up the marketplace for traditional engagement solutions. ... [ read more ]
By Kimberly Abel-Lanier, Vice President, CultureNext, Maritz Motivation Solutions, and Chris Cottle, Chief Marketing Officer, MaritzCX. In a perfect world, actively engaged employees deliver your brand promise each and every day. ... [ read more ]
Chili's Grill & Bar, Cisco and Caesars Entertainment were among the winners of this year's North American Employee Engagement Awards, presented in association with CultureNext by Maritz Motivation Solutions.... [ read more ]
Animate Growth Partners, founded by industry veteran Chris Galloway, aims to serve the Sales Incentive and B2B Customer Loyalty market as a professional services agency... [ read more ]
The Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) recently released a white paper and study, "Using Behavioral Economics Insights in Incentives, Rewards, and Recognition: The Neuroscience" that describes some of the unifying behavioral economic principles connecting emotions and employee performance. ... [ read more ]
Peter Hart, CEO of Rideau Recognition Solutions Inc., the Montreal-based international recognition company, strongly believes in the engagement movement and its potential to transform economies: "Having an ISO standard around engagement that involves recognition and other elements will be critical to organizational success."... [ read more ]
New survey tool enables organizations to measure their most important engagement strengths and weaknesses against a broad benchmark of companies.... [ read more ]
The Enterprise Engagement Alliance recently added a number of new members to its rolls. New Corporate Members include: Marketing Innovators, ... [ read more ]
Eagle Recognition has taken an investment position in the Engagement Agency LLC to further expand Eagle's offerings and bring formal engagement services to their clients and prospects. The Engagement Agency leads the emergence of the engagement field by... [ read more ]
Next Level Performance was recently named one of the Best Places to Work in New Jersey by NJBIZ for the third year in a row. The awards recognize the state's top employers... [ read more ]
The Kademi Customer Experience Platform at Kademi.com is now available in the U.S. Kademi is designed to deliver every capability needed to engage with, sell and reward a customer in cloud-based platform, according to ... [ read more ]
McBassi Inc., a leading human resources analytics firm, has developed a service for companies in the rewards, recognition and loyalty space that require advanced analytics for clients or their own company. McBassi, based in New York, provides analytics services to leading companies and... [ read more ]
More than 200 business professionals came together last week in Chicago at the Fairmont Millennium Park hotel for the 2017 Enterprise Engagement Alliance Conference and Rewards & Recognition Expo... [ read more ]
A hypothetical ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) that has outperformed the S&P 500 by 25.6% in its four and one half years has completed its periodic review and added 21 companies to the 47-company portfolio, while removing a similar number. ... [ read more ]
ISO Standards, EEA curriculum provide potential answers. It is the lack of a formal organizational approach to engagement that explains why engagement scores remain low, despite billions invested in leadership coaching, assessment and employee engagement surveys.... [ read more ]
MaritzCX recently announced the winners of its 2017 CX Elite awards, recognizing excellence in customer experience strategy, execution and results. In all, 15 organizations were honored with an award this year in the following categories... [ read more ]
The fully updated online Enterprise Engagement Certification and Learning program is now available at Enterprise Engagement Academy from the not-for-profit Enterprise Engagement Alliance. The online Certification program ... [ read more ]
The engagement movement still has a long way to go, but more forces converge to help push it forward. The first major force in favor of formal engagement strategies has come from investors, who increasingly value investments in human capital. See "BlackRock Joins Ranks of Big Investors Focused on People." The second driver of the... [ read more ]
With the field of engagement catching on, many traditional incentive, marketing, promotion and management consulting firms now claim that their products and services are engaging, or that they provide engagement services. But what does that mean, exactly? What questions can you ask of solution providers to... [ read more ]
A process for rating the organizational maturity of organizations developed in the United Kingdom is now available at no cost to help organizations "develop a greater understanding and the professional practice of organization maturity and human governance," according to statement by Maturity Institute (MI) and Organizational Maturity Services (OMS) LLP. Organizations can ... [ read more ]
Seattle, WA-based engagement research firm TINYpulse recently released its 2017 Employee Engagement Report, "The Broken Bridges of the Workplace." After reviewing over a million anonymous employee responses, researchers note that ... [ read more ]
"Want to Create a Great Customer Experience? Start With Your Employees" is the topic of a feature article published in an insert on Loyalty & Rewards produced by Mediaplanet in USA Today print editions on Friday March 17.... [ read more ]
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