S-T-R-E-T-C-H your Rewards Budget: Maximize the Return on your Employee Recognition Investment
by Kevin Aguanno

Running out of funds? This recording tells you how you can stretch your rewards budget by spending it more effectively, leveraging your investment to maximize the performance of your team... and your organization.

Reading an excerpt from his book 101 Ways to Reward Team Members for $20 (or Less!), the author teaches you how to:

• Improve employee morale
• Improve team motivation and employee motivation
• Improve departmental and cross-organizational teaming
• Maximize the benefits of rewards and recognition programmes
• Avoid the common rewarding mistakes
• Choose a reward that suits the recipient
• Choose a reward that suits the accomplishment
• Tie a reward to a specific accomplishment
• Give rewards in a timely fashion

"Every employer, manager, and worker can benefit." - Stephen Devaux	Kevin Aguanno is a people person -- he understands what gives us pride, what stimulates our loyalty, and why we might sacrifice up to half of our waking hours every week to something called "work." Every employer, manager, and worker can benefit from [his] insights. - Stephen Devaux, Author of Total Project Control
"Helps [listeners] figure out how to use thought, not cash, to praise." - Dr. Bob Fabian	All of us want to make a difference. All of us want our contribution to be recognized. Receiving a reward for our efforts can tell us that we have made a difference and that our contribution is recognized. But that only happens when it's the right reward, given in the right way, and for the right reasons. Money is not always the best reward. Often, a reward for less than $20 can be a far more effective way to recognize contribution. The right token is eloquent in expressing praise and recognizing effort. Kevin helps [listeners] figure out how to use thought, not cash, to praise. You can do good without spending a bundle. Kevin shows you how. - Dr. Bob Fabian, The Concept Monger
"You will benefit from deploying these profit-building designs." - Laura Pollard	If you are a senior manager, mid-manager or a small business person overseeing a tiny team, you will benefit from deploying these profit-building designs. More importantly, you will be going one further than your competition by keeping your most valued employees satisfied. In a business world increasingly focused on customers, your company will be able to maintain and motivate your irreplaceable assets - the employees who serve your valuable customers. Keeping your internal people happy so that they in turn delight your external customers is the name of the game in the future of business. - Laura Pollard, President, Customer Relationship Management Association of Canada
"Full of good management principles, good advice, and good reward ideas." - Reader Views	Kevin Aguanno provides us with yet another good management tool to enhance performance, work ethics, internal relationships, and improved outcomes. Taking a concept every manager has dealt with and learned either through education or experience, he discusses a brief history of rewards, as well as a more in-depth and analytical approach to the benefits and deficiencies of various rewarding systems. He asks and answers really legitimate questions, such as why reward at all, how do we reward properly and consistently, and what kinds of rewards are applicable to what types of circumstances. Mr. Aguanno also chats about the differences in rewards and recognition, then the various types of rewards, emphasizing the reward needing to be suitable both to the person and to the accomplishment. This 40-minute CD is full of good management principles, good advice, and good reward ideas. I recommend it to managers, leaders, and students of those sciences and arts. - William E. Cooper, Reader Views