Hello blog. My name is Lindsay and I am the Product Manager here at Baudville. While writing blog posts is definitely not my strong suit, I am super-passionate about my job and love the Baudville product line (naturally). Since I always have a thumb on product trends, I thought I would share some with you today: what is hot now, how best to use those products, and great ways to do so on a budget.

At Baudville, we're in the midst of choosing this year's winners for our two yearly award programs. In fact, our staff just voted last week on our peer-nominated Luminary Award, which will be announced at our Year-End Holiday Party this Friday night. And, our top leadership are meeting to decide who will be our Inspire Award Winners—who will also be honored this Friday. Exciting times at the ‘ville!

If you’re anything like me, your holiday budget is starting to feel the squeeze. And if you’re anything more like me, searching Pinterest for handmade gifts or free printables to offset some cost, sounds like a giant time sink. <Enter holiday hero music> Baudville to the rescue!

Check out these completely FREE holiday printables to use for your event, interoffice holiday gift giving, or for some just plain silliness!

One of the greatest challenges any recognition program faces is maintaining momentum after the newness of the program wears off. It’s typical for a recognition program to start off strong, with lots of employee participation and support, and slowly fade into obscurity.

Maintaining a recognition program takes effort and constant monitoring. In fact, a best practice for recognition programs is change and flexibility. As the architect or caregiver of your organization’s recognition program, you need to be frequently reviewing your program and making the necessary tweaks and adjustments to keep it running like a well oiled machine.

Something not everyone knows is that I got my job here at Baudville thanks in part to an old schoolmate. Not from college or high school, but kindergarten. Crazy, right?

You never know who will be a connection in your life, so it definitely pays to always play nice, doesn't it? We learned that in kindergarten, and, if we actually applied that early lesson in the years that followed, we probably made it pretty far. What else did we learn...?