This week, we’re privileged to have Jennifer V. Miller return to the Recognition at Work blog to reflect on the gift of giving!  Please make Jennifer feel welcome with your kind comments! 

The act of giving someone recognition is a gift that’s in season all year long. And, it’s the gift that truly keeps on giving. Consider this: according to researchers from University of California, San Diego and Harvard, positive behaviors like giving someone praise is a sort of social “contagion”—it’s scientifically proven that one person’s act of kindness creates a cascading effect, prompting others to “pay it forward” and also do good.  

Did you know Baudville.com is a wealth of information and ideas for our customers? We have hundreds of articles, eBooks, white papers, and free downloads – and they’re all free! No log-in required! You can find all of it in our Recognition Resource Center. 

The Recognition Resource Center is a library of ideas and knowledge for individuals starting a recognition program, planning an event, or recognizing their team. To visit, click on the gray tab on the left hand side of the Baudville homepage or click here. Starting today, this area of the website has a new look and navigation that should make it easier to find information and new ideas.

We have changed the navigation, and you can now find content by resource topic or type. If you’re looking for information for a certain event or industry, I recommend you sort by topic. Resource topics include education, healthcare appreciation, volunteer appreciation, team recognition, low cost ideas, special events, and more. If you’re browsing for the latest eBook or download, use the resource type navigation. It will help you get to our white papers, videos, and free downloads the fastest!

Features of the new Recognition Resource Center include:
• New design and page layouts
• Revised Recognition Event Calendar with more holidays
• Easy-to-use navigation and expanding menu
• Ability to browse by resource topic or type
• Refine content to find information faster
• Organized Recognition TV webisodes 
• Recognition Tools, like our ePraise and Gift Finder, are more easily accessible 

If you’re a regular Baudville customer, then you’ve likely seen the Spinner Ornaments we’ve developed in past years for our holiday product launch. Seems every year our Spinners get more and more popular, which fuels us to create more and more designs. 
 


From the entire team at Baudville, we hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving! We will be closed Thursday and Friday for the holiday and to give our employees some much-deserved time off with their families. 

The holidays are here! It seems like all the major retail areas are already bustling with holiday shoppers looking for the best gifts for everyone on their list. Have you thought about appreciation for your team yet?

The holidays and end of the year are an important time to reflect upon the contributions, accomplishments, and successes of your team. At Baudville, we celebrate with our Year End Party which includes awards, employee gifts, and lots of fun! Our employees always look forward to our event, so I’ve put together three areas of tips and ideas to help you make your own year end efforts successful. You can also get all these tips in our Recognition TV video.

1. Event Themes
Your year event or award ceremony should have a theme! It can be simple or as creative as you can imagine. Some of our past themes for the Baudville Year End Party have been game show, roaring twenties, and casino. Regardless of the theme you choose, you should always make it about the guests of honor: your team.

Your theme gets applied to all the communication about your event including the invitation, presentation slides, menu, directional signs, table cards, ID cards, even your follow up newsletter article. ID cards are an important element of our year end party. Every employee receives a card (we make them with the IDville ID Maker system) when we arrive at the party. The ID card reveals table assignments and makes employees and guests more comfortable because they don’t have to remember everyone’s name!