Planning your organization’s company picnic is a big task, even for a seasoned pro. Keeping a list of to-dos will help you stay on track and make sure you knock it out of the park. So, we’ve prepared a handy checklist you can print off and check off as you go!

Summer is full of fun events and major holidays that employees live (and long) for! Keep your employees engaged all summer long by celebrating these events and having a little fun at work.

As hard as it might be to imagine, your employees have lives outside of work. (Gasp!) Taking care of the whole employee is an idea that’s been emphasized more and more in the work world, and we’re here to let you know how to take care of your employees who are also parents.

While people do enjoy the extra money and added perks that incentives provide (as we talked about in this post last week), many receive greater satisfaction from knowing someone valued their contributions.

While you may hear the words used interchangeably, incentive and recognition have very different meanings. Both reward and motivate performance. However, they do so quite differently. An incentive drives performance like a contract. An if/then clause establishes expected performance for a promised reward: "Do this, get that." Personal recognition fuels the inner drive, igniting the spark of self-motivation into a fully-energized flame of continuing accomplishment.