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Whether you need practical custom gifts for the office or festive decor for family, planning ahead helps with busy holidays. So, here’s our official gift guide for creative pre-designed ideas and fully customizable gifts! Browse our store today to discover custom mugs, signs, niche accessories and more.

Labor Day is quickly approaching, and our custom desk gifts offer a creative way to recognize your workforce. Adding personal messages and art can emphasize sincerity, and avoid corny or obligatory corporate attitudes. Labor Day isn’t just an opportunity to acknowledge employees with time off, but also to build team spirit and expand! So, browse PlaqueMaker today to find custom gifts that will spruce up any desk.

A healthy workplace is invaluable, so Employee Appreciation Day is the perfect opportunity to recognize and rally great workers. It’s celebrated on the first Friday of every March, which lands on the first this year. Custom products can be a thoughtful way to encourage, inspire, and unify your team. We have all the office décor and gifts you’ll need to acknowledge hard work.

You’re likely to build a healthier, more productive workplace if you reward employees for Labor Day. It arrives on the first Monday of September, presenting an opportunity to recognize work that often goes under-appreciated. And with major strikes in the entertainment industry, Labor Day’s meaning is likely on everyone’s mind. Our customized gifts are professional and affordable enough to acknowledge any great work, including business owners.

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.