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Motivational travel has long been recognized as a powerful business tool for helping organizations achieve key business objectives. However, most incentive industry research is limiting as historical efforts have only provided insights from the corporate user and provider viewpoints. Consequently, the results are frequently skewed to their point of view—what they perceive as their own needs, wants and preferences. This study is different.

The Forum: Business Results Through People’s recently completed coaching study is the focus of an article in Chief Learning Officer, an online publication featuring executive coaching and leadership development.

Incentive Research Foundation/Incentive Federation Study Finds Most Industries Using Programs Aimed at Employees and Sales Channels.

The Site International Foundation and the Incentive Travel Council (ITC) have commissioned Dr. Scott Jeffries and Monmouth University to conduct a joint study focused on The Incentive Travel Participant Viewpoint. Both organizations share the belief that business performance can be positively impacted through the utilization of reward and recognition programs that employ motivational experiences and incentive travel initiatives.

As the economy struggles to rebound from the financial crisis, companies need to re-engage their people and re-focus on growth. To generate growth, these strategies must maximize the value of people versus minimizing their cost. Innovation is an opportunity to maximize human assets and leaders can take positive steps to engage their people – the human capital of business – thereby driving behaviors that encourage innovation.

Reward programs such as team travel to exotic locations were abandoned and/or scaled down, and bonuses sometimes disappeared. And so, as our economy improves, the question is, will attention to revamping employee Incentives return as a key organizational driver? The answer was found in the June Canadian Incentive Trends Survey, and it’s a bold and aggressive yes.

Employee engagement is the top human resource challenge organizations anticipate facing in the next three to five years according to a survey from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

A new study has found that increasing employee motivation will become a higher focus for Canadian executives in the coming year. This is translating into a renewed focus on employee incentive programs, as part of their strategy to boost company productivity and bottom line results.

How do you motivate high achieving employees who are key to your organization’s success? According to the Incentive Research Foundation’s (IRF) latest white paper, Critical Findings for Recognition Travel Programs, it might just be by creating an all-employee recognition travel program.