Employee Recognition and Motivation Week

It’s as simple as this:

• High employee turnover costs you money.
• Low productivity and “I-don’t-care-me-first” attitudes waste your time.
• Both keep you from reaching your company goals and producing a better bottom line.

So what are you doing to solve these recurring problems – for good?

EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION AND MOTIVATION WEEK!
A great and inexpensive way to boost productivity AND your bottom line!

• Get solutions from experts to some of the most perplexing and most common HR problems you face on a regular basis.
• Keep your best employees, instead of wasting time replacing them when they leave!
• Motivate your entire workforce!
• Be the leader you’ve always wanted to be and lead your team to higher productivity and higher numbers!

A week’s worth of comprehensive training – 5 audio CDs in all – for investing in and getting more out of your most valuable asset: your associates and employees!

Employee recognition is not just doing something nice for your employees. There’s a return on your investment of time, money and other resources that you put into recognizing achievement and educating your associates.

Meaningful employee recognition is a communication tool that reinforces and rewards the best and most important outcomes that people create for your organization. It also positively reinforces the behaviors you want to see become the standard throughout your workplace culture.

You know you can cut costs by improving performance and productivity with the workforce you have, as well as by retaining your best people, instead of investing in the expensive new hire process.

But how do you choose the processes and campaigns that will make an impact in your workplace culture and in your bottom line? What will be the most powerful for your organization?

Here’s your chance to learn, to explore, to discover techniques that can enhance many elements throughout your business from some of the best minds in HR today. Employee Recognition and Motivation Week is an in-depth, balanced and comprehensive series of 5 audio conference CDs that hit on today’s most pressing and persistent topics – the topics most on HR professionals’ minds.

Find out why employee motivation and recognition matter – and the surprising things they can do for your organization. From motivation trends to performance improvement initiatives, from employee engagement strategies to leadership building, Employee Recognition and Motivation Week will equip you with everything you need to avoid turnover, increase employee loyalty and improve your company’s morale and workplace culture!

Day 1:
Is Your Employee Recognition Program Working or Wasting Your Time?

Just because we’re all grown up now doesn’t mean that we, as human beings, don’t still appreciate and even crave recognition for our achievements and contributions. And research backs this up – there is a business case to make for employee recognition. You can actually track the return on investment in your bottom line and in a better workplace environment.

Those same studies point to the damage that a lack of recognition can do, leading to burnout, decreased performance, de-motivation, and eventually reduced profitability for your department or entire company.

After all, how much money can you be making if employees are complaining at the water cooler instead of working in the afterglow of warm praise from a trusted supervisor?

Don’t let an over-packed schedule keep you from incorporating systematic ways of recognizing achievement in your organization. Get easy-to-implement strategies for aligning your employee recognition initiatives with the corporate objectives you want to achieve. Then, use these strategies to write your own step-by-step guide for creating a strategic employee recognition program that gets real, measurable results.

Learning Objectives:

• What does the latest research say about employee recognition – and how do you apply the results to your workplace?
• How do you know if your efforts are really paying off? Create a recognition program that actually lets you track your ROI and that aligns with corporate objectives.
• Sell your employees on your ideas and your values! How internal branding and marketing should be used to get the most impact from your internal communication.

*This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI), 0.15 CEU credits, 1.5 CM Continuing Education Credits.

Day 2:
The Levity Effect: Why It Pays to Lighten Up

The Levity Effect uses serious science to reveal the remarkable power of fun and humor in business: that leaders who are light-hearted earn more on average than their peers; that entertaining workplaces have more loyal employees and customers; and that employees who are considered humorous are vastly more likely to get promoted – especially to senior jobs.

The benefits of the Levity Effect are not conjecture but are built on extensive research and case studies from some of the world's most successful organizations. New York Times bestselling author Adrian Gostick (The Levity Effect, The Carrot Principle) and humorist Scott Christopher (co-author The Levity Effect, actor “Touched by an Angel”) reveal the research from their ground-breaking book The Levity Effect: Why It Pays to Lighten Up and provide powerful examples from Boeing, Nike, KPMG, KFC, Enterprise, Zappos and dozens of others, showing how lightening up can drive real business results.

This presentation also outlines the extensive research into the subject – studies that cut against the grain of traditional business thinking – including compelling data from the Great Place to Work Institute's 1 million person database, which reveals that great companies consistently earn significantly higher marks for fun.

The Levity Effect is for anyone who wants to build an engaging, productive work culture and a more successful career.

Learning Objectives:

• How great organizations use fun to build a stronger culture – and how you can use and adapt their ideas in your workplace.
• Is humor really a good idea for serious internal communications? Discover how and when to use it appropriately to score major points, enhance your message and get everyone on the same wavelength.
• Do you know how to hire people in the first place who will enhance your brand and your workplace culture?

*This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI), 0.15 CEU credits, 1.5 CM Continuing Education Credits.

Day 3:
Why You Want to Be Known as a Great Place to Work

The challenges companies are facing today are taking us into completely new, unchartered territory. There’s a wider generation gap than ever before in the office, as the younger “millennial” crowd mixes with baby boomers. The economy is putting a new strain and demand on both companies and workers. By 2011, women will outnumber men in the workplace. Global mobility is changing the face of the workforce as we know it.

It's no more "business as usual," because there is no more gold standard or "norm" to follow. Will you be ready to adapt to these changes?

Even more importantly, can you create a workplace culture where these diverse groups will be able to come together to achieve a common purpose - that purpose being recaching your organization's goals?

This stunning audio conference focused on providing insight into these subtle and not-so-subtle new workplace issues - and how you can navigate through them to create a great place to work! One where retention is high and employees feel secure, thanks to the long-term vision you share with them that demonstrates how the compamy is thriving.A great place to work is a place where individuals feel comfortable to do their best work; where the leadership inspires their teams to achieve high productivity while lowering expenses and increasing efficiency.

Don't let the pressure of layoffs, low product demand, or budget cuts force you into sending fearful messages that resonate and multiply throughtout your workforce. Find our how to create success in the new economy through insightful principles and real-life case studies - then find the right blend of methods that will work for your work culture and make it a great place to work.

Learning Objectives:

• The company's needs should be your staff's needs - and vice versa - for a symbiotic relationship that keeps everyone happy. Establish the needs of staff, leadership, and company.
• What sort of value can you get out of an employee-generated workplace culture?
• Quantifying success: Tracking the ROI of your new great workplace culture

*This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI), 0.15 CEU credits, 1.5 CM Continuing Education Credits.

Day 4:
Motivating a Demoralized WorkForce: Getting to the Source of TRUE Motivation

Energized and motivated employees can be the make-you-or-break-you tipping point between blazing success and absolute failure. Energized employees provide the fuel that helps you meet goals, grow your organization and build a positive culture that drives high retention and productivity. On the other hand, demoralized employees cost you time and money in high turnover and in other less tangible ways, like spreading discontent, wasting time complaining instead of contributing and looking out for their own interest instead of the company's.

No doubt, engaged employees are critical to your organization, so the first challenge is to keep them from leaving, and then to keep them connected, involved and motivated. And keeping them connected, involved and motivated is exactly how you'll keep the good ones from leaving.

Learn what new research from over 391 organizations and 90,000 workers is saying about what really motivates people and instills loyalty in your workforce. What really helps to retain your best people, and then what keeps them engaged and motivated? Do you know why people join, stay and leave your organization? What is the critical role front-line leaders play in making it all happen?

Retention and engagement are intertwined in many ways, and you'll learn the truth about many of the myths surrounding true engagement and real motivation. Are Engaged employees more likely to stay? tune in and get the answer.

Learning Objectives

• More than just money! What convinces an employee to stay in the end and invest sweat equity in the company's goals?
• What more can you accomplish with a motivated, engaged workforce?
• Don't take our word for it: What the research show and how you can apply that to your own situation.

*This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI), 0.15 CEU credits, 1.5 CM Continuing Education Credits.

Day 5:
Bud to Boss: How to Motivate the People Who Used to Be Your Colleagues

There is a way to combat the low productivity, dwindling morale, and grumbling at the water cooler that are affecting your results at work. And it starts with you!

Want to create high performance among your employees, higher retention and greater over sucess? Then you need to become a master motivator!

When you motivate your staff and recognize what they;ve done, they feel good about themselves and want to do better. In this motivational and accredited leadership training, join renowned leadership expert, author and coach Kevin Eikenberry for some eye-opening techniques and strategies for developing the motivational leader in you.

You know that motivating your employees and recognizing their accomplishments are important, but they often fall too far down the priority list behind all the daily deadlines. Kevin talks about why you can't afford to put this off any longer, how you can show your appreciation consistently, some of the effective ways to give feedback, and how all of the can change the atmosphere in your office for the better.

Bottom line: Employees who feel appreciated and engaged in their work are more likely to be motivated and happier. They'll work both harder and smarter to meet and exceed expectations - and that's good for your bottom line. None of these things will occur on their own. As leaderw we have a role to play in making it all happen.

Get yourself motivated, and then go motivate your colleagues and staff. Sign up today for this inspriing and effective leadership training, and discover how motivating and recognizing your employees can lead to the work environment and the results you want.

Learning Objectives:

• How can you determine the specific motivational triggers of your team members?
• How can you apply the four types of feedback - and why are they all important?
• How can you effectively balance positive and constructive feedback?
• What are some effective ways to use the budget and tools you have to get the results you want and need?

*This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI), 0.15 CEU credits, 1.5 CM Continuing Education Credits.