CHICAGO – Creative Incentives received a Crystal Award by the Society of Incentive & Travel Executives (SITE) for the Most Outstanding Incentive Travel Program – Up to Three Nights, Under 200 Participants for their “Unthinkable” program for Avroy Shlain Cosmetics. SITE recognized the best incentive campaigns, special/motivational events and promotion campaigns at a 7 December ceremony during the organization’s International Conference in Monterey, California. Avroy Shlain Cosmetics, the largest direct selling beauty house in South Africa with more than 34,000 consultants, wanted to create an incentive program to reward its [...]

Financial Mail interviews Geoff Saner on the incentive and eventing market. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoM-jKQpX7w&feature=emb_logo

Travel Incentives – Talking to your team about incentives The question that any organisation should first ask when deciding to implement an incentive programme is, what kind of incentives can improve their employee’s performance at the same time as creating a well motivated and productive team? This question is not a simple one and the answer is often different for different teams and what you are hoping to achieve from the programme. The incentive or rewards usually need relate to the achievement of certain goals – either personal, team, organisational or a combination [...]

Creative Incentives – A case study on incentives A small software company routinely provided his team with an annual pay increase and end-of-year bonus. When the business lost some key clients and profits started to decrease, the owner did not give a raise nor did the team receive their bonuses that they had come to expect. The employees were disappointed and angry. Three employees resigned, including a senior technical manager who had been with the company for eight years and was a key employee. This caused the owner even more issues with [...]

A successful travel incentive starts with careful and meticulous planning. One of the first steps in the plan is to ensure that you have a destination that will appeal to the team you are motivating. Selecting the right destination is one of the most important aspects when putting together the incentive. The destination can be local, regional or international and can be one that is filled with activities or one where the team can just relax with or without partners. Another consideration when planning the incentive (and one that is vitally important to the [...]

The results of a recent talent shortage survey show that around 34% of local employers are having difficulty in filling jobs in their companies. In fact, employers across the globe are experiencing talent shortages and are needing to look within their organisations for solutions. To avoid a talent drain by losing your best employees, companies need to tailor incentive programmes to improve loyalty and decrease turnover. After all, recognition is one of the most effective ways to reinforce a company or organisation’s culture, support its objectives and retain top performers. Knowing that [...]

Article published by Think Sales. Companies make the mistake of cutting back when the economy slackens off and they find it harder and harder to achieve their budgets. Say what? Yes true. If companies think ‘investment’ and not ‘cost’ they will be surprised at the return they can get for their investment through using properly planned incentive programmes. Whether the need is to thank customers for their loyalty, recognise staff or reward sales in distribution channels, there are ways to turn average and below average performance, into better performance and increased profit. [...]

When you choose travel as a reward vehicle for successful achievement of goals during an incentive campaign you not only please your participants by offering them what they desire, you also create the opportunity to really get to know your top achievers.Incentive marketing programs motivate people to a higher level of performance by offering intrinsic and extrinsic rewards that can be obtained by reaching reasonable predetermined goals. Conventional wisdom says that an employee gives his or her best effort all of the time and that the associate is duly compensated for that effort [...]