Real Recognition Radio

How do you motivate your employees? William Ng, managing editor of Incentive Magazine, will help you re-think the importance of incentives. Incentives have been hard hit in the media lately, but if used properly, incentives are an important and effective tool to have under your belt for employee morale. Incentives can help increase your ROI by increasing productivity, engagement and decreasing absenteeism. Tune in next Tuesday to join in the conversation!

What does leadership mean to you? Is it a position? Is it the way you carry yourself? Is it the difference you make every time you interact with someone? Real Recognition Radio welcomes Mike Henry Sr., founder of the Lead Change Group and leadership development coach, and Erin Schreyer, President of Sagestone Partners, who will dissect what authentic leadership means and how this can positively affect the workplace and those around you.

This week’s show brings you inside the world of ING DIRECT CANADA with Peter Aceto, President & CEO and Kate Johnston, Senior Manager of Communications. How do you build a strong culture of recognition for engaged employees? Discover ING DIRECT’s secrets to creating an environment of positivity and cooperation through the power of relationships. It takes a lot of strategy and a little elbow grease, but the result is an enviable engaged, top performing workforce.

This episode of Real Recognition Radio invites Marilyn Veincentotzs, author of How Organizations Empower Bully Bosses: A Criminal in the Workplace, to talk about the troubling trend of “bully bosses.” Learn what your leaders may unconsciously be doing to encourage this kind of behavior and what they can do to be proactive to ensure your employees are living your corporation’s values. So join in on the conversation and discover how to create a positive work environment you can be proud of!

According to the authors of “The Why of Work”, Dr. Dave Ulrich and Dr. Wendy Ulrich, we all seek a sense of purpose, contribution, connection, value, and hope through our work, this is what drives us and keeps us engaged. On this Real Recognition Radio episode, the Ulrichs will help you unravel the root of what motivates your employees and learn how to create leaders that will change the workplace. Listen in this week to discover how to become a “meaning maker” and how this helps you improve productivity, customer satisfaction and your bottom line.

A global revolution is under way in philanthropy and organizations that do good for others are doing well for themselves too! Our guest, Matthew Bishop is the US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief of The Economist, and the author of several books including, “Philanthrocaptialism.” According to former U.S President Bill Clinton, “This is an important book. Our interdependent world is too unequal, unstable, and unsustainable. We have to transform it into one of shared responsibilities, shared opportunities, and a shared sense of community.” Listen and learn how making the world better makes perfect corporate $ense.

What is leadership 2.0? Bestselling author and leadership advisor, Robin Sharma is this week’s guest on Real Recognition Radio and will explain how embracing leadership can change the workplace. Robin Sharma is ranked as one of the Top 5 leadership experts and is the celebrated author of 11 bestselling books on leadership, including The Leader Who Had No Title.

Successful organizations are those that have high emotional intelligence – they encourage innovation, responsibility, relationships and see leaders in all their employees. Join in on this powerful conversation to learn that it doesn’t matter what your title is, you have the power to change your environment at work and at home.

How does one take a standard industry turnover rate of 150% and reduce it to less than 30? On this episode of Real Recognition Radio you’ll learn what it means to “create great corporate culture one slice at a time” with founder and CEO of Nick’s Pizza & Pub Nick Sarillo. He will share his secrets on how the successful creation of a deep corporate culture engenders an environment with a strong sense of belonging, with high morale and high productivity. Tune in and learn how embedding recognition in corporate culture results in success!

Real Recognition Radio welcomes Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden who will explain what contented cows have to do with happy employees. Bill And Richard are the best-selling authors of the book Contented Cows Move Faster, they also speak to, train, and coach managers on leadership practices for better business outcome. This episode will teach you how having a focused, fired-up, and capably led workforce is one of the best things any organization can do for its bottom line.

Arriving on Real Recognition Radio this week is Southwest Airlines’ Sunny Abercrombie and Leslie Shults. Air travel is seldom pleasant, with continuing cutbacks one has become accustomed to disgruntled customs agents and flight attendants. But when customers fly Southwest Airlines, travelers are often pleasantly surprised. Their vibrant corporate culture has created a positive workplace and flyers are reaping the benefits. Sunny is the Senior Director Culture Services and Leslie is the Team Leader/Planner Culture Activities. The two will show you how to create a recognition culture that filters down to your customers. And you’ll be happy to learn there’s a financial benefit to all the fun Southwest has!