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Answer from our Guest Expert Lillyvette Montalvo PAGE 3 Involve Your Employees in the Process If you're thinking of more targeted incentives for your company, consider making your employees part of the process. Get together with the principals in your company and make a list of incentives you can afford that you feel would cater to your employees. Think of offers that your employees would really appreciate and also would make "the competition" fun! After you've done that, make a big announcement and let your employees vote on what they'd like best. Then show the voting results on which incentives won and by how much. Tout Your Winners & Programs Always remember that whatever you chose, and whatever the cost may be, the true value lies in the fact you're providing recognition and positive reinforcement to your employees. Even if you have to start out small (in cost), make a big deal out of it. Announce your program and/or winners in your newsletter and company materials, your local business journal or newspaper, or on your website. Whatever you do, make employees proud to have earned that recognition and to work for a company that truly appreciates its employees. (continued) Page 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 Enter your search terms Submit search form       Search Idea Cafe Web Small Business Tax Center • Idea Cafe Home • Sign Up • Biz Grant Center • CyberSchmooz •Coffee Talk with Experts • People in Biz Profiles • Starting Your Biz • Biz Planning • Running Your Biz • FREE Trade Publications • Marketing • Financing Your Biz • Human Resources • Legal & Biz Forms • Managing Your Biz • eCommerce • You and Your Biz • Gen X • Work@Home • The Fridge • De-Stress • Send an Award • Send an eGreeting • Yoga @ Your Desk • Web Guide • Idea Cafe in the News • About Idea Cafe • Advertise on Idea Cafe • Contact Us • Privacy Policy • Site Map • Small Biz News Copyright 1995-2025, Idea Cafe Inc. Downloads are for personal use only, not for resale to others, and may not be reprinted in any form without written permission from Idea Cafe Inc. DISCLAIMER: We hope whatever you find on this site is helpful, but be cautioned that it may not apply to your own situation, or be totally current at any given time. Idea Cafe Inc. and all of its current and past experts, sponsors, advertisers, agents, contractors and advisors disclaim all warranties with regard to anything found anywhere on this family of websites, quoted from, or sent from Idea Cafe. and its related sites, publications and companies. We also take no responsibility for comments published by others on these pages. TRADEMARKS: The following are Registered Trademarks or Servicemarks of DevStart, Inc.: Idea Cafe®, Online Coffee Break®, The Small Business Gathering Place®, Take out Info®, Biz Bar & Grill®, Complaint-O-Meter®, A Fun Approach to Serious Business™, CyberSchmooz™, and BizCafe™.

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