This presentation will focus on the tax and legal treatment of various incentive, reward and recognition programs and current legal/regulatory issues of importance. It will focus on tax-advantaged safety and service awards programs, which were under attack in the House version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Fortunately, through a well-timed legislative initiative, we were able to convince important members of the Senate Finance Committee to retain section 274(j), which provides preferential tax treatment for safety and service awards programs, as an important tool for businesses that wanted to reward ad protect their employees.
Join RPI Board Members, CRP course authors and facilitators who will lead you through the value of the Best Practices and show real-life examples in each area so you can start, re-energize and grow your recognition strategy.
It takes just two words to supercharge employee engagement in your organization — the challenge is how you think about and use “Thank You.” Join leaders from Recognition Professionals International’s Board of Directors for an enlightening hour designed to help any organization to elevate a culture of recognition as a way to driver behaviors, performance and engagement.
With our best practice standard of Program Change and Flexibility we need to continuously improve our recognition programs and practices and prepare for the future. This fascinating webinar will give practical insights on how to look back at the past in order to project and predict the future space of employee recognition programs tomorrow.
Learn from three colleges how to build, promote, and measure a recognition program – and how to navigate the challenges along the way! They will share their expertise on the Recognition “lifecycle” – from building a program in-house, to including a diverse workforce, measuring impact, and evaluating results. For-profit companies and higher education professionals will find helpful information, best practices, and creative solutions in this upbeat panel discussion.
Although 90% of all workplaces have some form of employee recognition program, employees still report high levels of not feeling valued. Managers and supervisors are frustrated, not knowing what to do to encourage their staff. Discover the core conditions for individuals to truly feel appreciated and how to empower your staff by giving them thanks in the ways that are meaningful to each individual. Learn how to apply the concepts from the bestselling, The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace, to your daily work-relationships.
Hear from recognition leaders at Wells Fargo and LMI how they used RPI’s Best Practice Standard “Recognition Strategy” to build recognition programs that supported their company cultures. Learn how organization leaders think about culture and how we have used our recognition strategies to help drive the desired company culture. We will tie this back in particular to the recognition strategy best practice with maybe a more indirect tie back to management responsibility.
How did Laura Hudson go from being tormented daily as a child by bullies and hiding behind a wig afraid to look up from the floor to a woman who is unapologetically herself and always sharing the joy in life? She found happy. In her session "Finding Happy," she will detail the steps you need to take to not only find the joy in times of stress but also to use the practices to create a workplace that your employees look forward to every day! Finding Happy... at Work!
