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At PlaqueMaker.com, we help businesses recognize, inspire and motivate their staff, associates and customers with a wide range of unique awards, gifts and mementos designed just for you.

For companies that believe in best practices, new research is recognizing “employee recognition” programs for their achievement in motivating people to do their best, no matter where they’re standing on the corporate ladder. Perhaps it’s because everybody loves a winner. Winning makes everyone happy and winners get to talk about it. So do winning companies. Which is why peer-to-peer thanks and recognition is piquing the interest of corporations today. Most of us want to be appreciated and need to belong, and regular kudos inspire us to do more:

Giving a plaque to a local hero is always a gift that is well received. Personalizing the plaque makes it both meaningful and memorable. You can choose from one of several ways to honor a hero - all which distinguish them in a special way.

When it comes to employee engagement, retention and turnover, employers have a tough job. These are considered the most pressing human resource challenges of the last two years, according to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Organizations are finding success using values-based employee recognition programs.

One of the top two human resource priorities of any company, organization or enterprise, employee engagement not only makes for happy, satisfied employees, it can positively impact the ability to attain corporate goals. According to Dale Carnegie, the top three drivers of employee engagement are

Study after study confirms the positive effect of employee recognition programs on a company’s staff at large. Corporate awards programs can also do the company good:

The conference room is a popular meeting place for small businesses in all industries. Since meetings can often have a lot of people sitting around, it's essential to make sure that you've got a strong foundation, which includes a sturdy conference table and plaques that are firm on the wall. Plaques can be described as objects typically bearing the informative or commemorative text attached to a wall. The color, design, and material of the plaque should reflect your company well since it is one of the parts of the conference room that people are generally looking at the whole meeting.

Although the use of company name tags has waned over the years, new benefits for using name tags to identify employees have also surfaced. Here are just a few of them.

A few HR stats to ponder. Studies show:

Jenna Lawrence Grigg and her company recently order one large perpetual plaque for their office lobby and three additional smaller perpetual plaques from PlaqueMaker.com. “We could not be more impressed with the products and service we received from PlaqueMaker,” Jenna tells us. They are beautiful, high quality and most importantly they all go nicely together.”

Create a work environment that:

Ricki needed a plaque to commemorate a member of her organization. She researched everything she could online to find the best product for the price.

To create lasting change for the good, we often focus on what’s not working in our lives so we can change it, rather than recognizing what is working and celebrating that, for a change. Literally.

Today, corporate gift giving is serious business. Savvy companies are including corporate gift buying as an essential part of their overall marketing strategy for success.

Your company has had a great year. Celebrate it! Here’s another installment of our Corporate Gift Buying Checklist, and we’re here to encourage you to show your clients and your employees how much you value and appreciate them with custom gifts this holiday season.

In this installment of our Corporate Gift Buying Checklist, we champion the art of presenting a gift. When is the last time you received a gift delivered by your boss, business partner or client – in person? In this age of Tweets and Posts, just the thought of a personal gift delivery is almost … novel. But totally doable, with a little preparation.

In this installment of our Corporate Gift Buying Checklist, we’ll consider how your corporate holiday gifts reflect on your company.

Here’s another installment of our Corporate Gift Buying Checklist. How do you choose that perfect corporate gift for your clients and your employees?