An inspired launch

The team at Solterbeck has just launched Inspired Gift Cards, an online store offering a wonderful range of gift cards and vouchers from leading retailers, top restaurants, premium brands and unique experience providers.

As well as a great personal gifting site, it is a fast and simple way to buy small volumes of gift cards for employee rewards or customer gifts.

Positioning gift cards as an inspired and thoughtful gift, Inspired Gift Cards has options for beautiful wrapping and personalized greeting cards, with gift card and voucher choices that provide for every personality and gift giving occasion.

Bespoke travel - individualising incentives

Tailor-made incentive travel isn't just for high budget programs. As a philosophy, it applies at any price level: it's all about making every individual in the group special. A well researched bespoke itinerary guarantees to touch and engage each individual or couple, with an experience to value.

It's absolutely about knowing your audience. A good incentive travel manager will grill you thoroughly about the profile of your group. The first questions will be about shared interests, including detail on lifestyle and the travel experiences your group members might seek out for themselves.

Having established what is expected by your group - the practical and creative work...

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Getting started - planning reward and recognition

Today's HR professional runs programs to solve business problems. So we ask: what behaviour will add the value we need? How do we best communicate, measure this behaviour and then recognise it? How do we begin to choose the right partners to drive this?

There are many service providers in the market and it's important to understand the differences in their offerings:

• Incentive fulfillment companies (Typically deliver "product" in the form of merchandise, travel or experiences.)...

Simple communication tools to connect, influence and recognise

Everyone knows the saying - it's the little things that count. Well there's no truer saying when it comes to communicating recognition. Peer to peer recognition is a great way to reinforce desired company behaviours, and a program can easily be aligned to your corporate values. In this area, low cost, simple tools can yield amazing results.

Often companies implement an overly structured and formal recognition program, without much space for individuality, freshness, or fun! Yet if staff and managers are not fully engaged in your program, it just won't work.

Be warned: the quarterly staff recognition awards or the length of service awards alone may not ignite an ongoing...

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