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		<title>Long Service Awards &#8211; The clock takes time into its own hands!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the UK employment market prepares for yet another year of turmoil it is no wonder so many companies are redundant to rewarding and recognising employees for their length of service. A recent article in Employee Benefits Magazine titled ‘Long Service Awards still have value’ highlighted the current need for effective Long Service Awards (LSAs) and argued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You don’t realise what you’ve got till it’s gone!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Telegraph’s recently released article titled “Staff morale hit as pay cuts and freezes continue” highlights the motivational challenge most companies will have to face over the next 12 months. The Telegraph revealed that it isn’t just the fact that there are pay freezes, cuts and financial instability it is the way in which companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stryker Strikes again with employee engagement!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With business back to normal many organisations are now keen to review their current employee engagement processes. A recent article in HR Zone titled ‘7 Guidelines for Employee Engagement: Lessons from Stryker’ revealed Gallups enterprising new case study on global medical devices company Stryker. The case study illustrated several key principles in running a successful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make sure your New Year’s resolution doesn’t go in one year and out the other!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following the festive season most offices are looking slightly bare, employee’s pockets are somewhat empty and many of us have surrounded ourselves with chocolate wrappers and stale mince pies; it seems the January blues are now upon us. Most workforces endured continual anxiety and stress throughout 2011 which was why it was so important to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Ways to Motivate this Christmas!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As there are exactly 12 days to go till Christmas it is not too late to keep your staff motivated in the run up to the big day! So all together now, on the 12th day of Christmas my employer gave to me&#8230;&#8230; 12 Reloadable Gift Cards A recent survey from across the pond revealed that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make mine a prepaid Christmas!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite being the most generous time of the year Christmas 2011 is seeing more and more people change the way they normally ‘deck the malls’. The financial struggle has even made Santa explore the fastest, hassle free, most valued and cost effective gifts on offer this festive season. Recent research from American Express (Amex) revealed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.johnsylvester.co.uk/make-mine-a-prepaid-christmas/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=make-mine-a-prepaid-christmas</link>
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		<title>Tis the season to be motivating!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With only 2 days to go till the advent calendar doors are opened, companies are reconsidering their generosity this Christmas. A recent article in Fresh Business Thinking revealed that many companies are questioning the value of Christmas gifts due to monetary cut backs, political restraints and tax pressures. Gone are the days of the early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do Managers still ‘Untag’ Social Media from their company’s culture?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems in today’s culture you can’t speak two words without it being tweeted, posted on facebook and then scrutinised by the amount of likes it has received however, the global social media takeover has thusfar failed to persuade Senior Managers to incorporate it into their business.  A recent article in Call Centre Focus titled ‘Senior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you part of the’ Work Revolution’?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The regimented and somewhat dated 9-5 work culture has had a rude awakening with the up and coming release of Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson’s book titled ‘Future Work: How Businesses Can Adapt and Thrive In The New World Of Work’. Both authors feel that too many companies have not moved with the times and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When will the public sector come up to date with Long Service Awards?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New research finds huge discrepancies between public and private sector recognition of employees for their length of service. According to research that our voucher division (The Voucher Shop) has recently undertaken, there are significant differences not only in the length of service that is rewarded, but also wide variations in the values of rewards between, [...]]]></description>
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