Tip Center Category: Stars as Corporate Gifts

Employee Recognition Awards: Merge the Tangible with the Intangible

A corporation’s most valuable asset is its employees. It’s important to maintain a motivated and positive workforce, which is easier said than done, especially in tough economic times. Personal and moving gestures in the form of employee recognition awards go a long way to making this happen.

Employee recognition awards have historically come in all shapes and sizes—cash prizes, stock options, and lavish weekend getaways are just a few examples of the time-honored awards now less frequently seen due to budgetary constraints. With businesses tightening their belts and bracing against the harsh economic climate, offering rewards that are low in cost but high in sentimental value are gaining prominence. In fact, according to a study done by Fortune Magazine and the Hay Group 74% of employers claim to understand that their employees appreciate awards that contain both tangible and intangible benefits.

Name a Star Live from Space Services Inc. is the answer to honoring your best employees by providing an inexpensive gift that’s rich in significance. Celebrate those employees that have gone above and beyond by naming a star in their honor. Each star name and dedication message is launched into space aboard a rocket, and gift recipients can view their star in real time through a robotically-controlled online telescope.

Celebrate Milestone Anniversaries with Clients

The relationship between corporation and client requires constant care and nurturing. Its continued existence is as vital to a corporation’s survival as is the corporation's workforce. Milestone anniversaries give the corporation and the client an opportunity to celebrate their past accomplishments, and to look ahead to future united endeavors.

It's an opportunity many company's cannot afford to miss. According to Michael LeBoeuf, Ph.D., author of How to Win Customers and Keep Them for Life, a full 68% of customers "quit" because the company shows some sort of perceived indifference toward them.

A wholesale personalized corporate gift is really all it takes to show customers and clients that the corporation values and appreciates their business. A corporation may also amplify their gratitude with a thoughtful gift marking a more personal occasion, such as an anniversary, and not a gift simply sent to recognize a recent purchase or contract signing. The significance of the thought will most likely not be lost on the recipient.

Celebrating Milestone Service Anniversaries of Employees

Maintaining a high employee retention rate is a key to business success. In fact, a volatile work environment has a measurable impact on the bottom line. According to employee-retention specialists Bliss & Associates, it can cost an organization up to 150% of a departing employee’s salary to replace him or her, considering the cost to recruit, interview, hire, and train a replacement… not to mention any lost productivity.

While some turnover is natural as employees seek new challenges and opportunities elsewhere, reducing excessive turnover boils down one thing: maintain a content workforce.

Giving a small token of appreciation in the form of a personalized business gift marking employee milestones and anniversaries is one method companies could easily leverage. Taking it a step further, the symbolic gesture of naming of a star after an employee brings an added personal touch that might otherwise be missed by a simple certificate of achievement or trinket.

For this, consider Name a Star Live, which offers numerous affordable personalized business gifts that all include access to an online software platform, giving gift recipients access to a robotically-controlled telescope to view their namesake star.

Finding Creative Employee Incentive Gifts

Finding employees worthy of receiving performance incentive is rarely a difficult task, but choosing a worthwhile incentive during tough economic times often is.

This is not to say that companies should forgo employee incentive programs and gifts during a down economy. On the contrary, they are necessary in order to maintain high morale and a productive workforce.

A recent column in the Orange County Register entitled “Companies keep employees motivated in tough times” stressed the importance of creative recognition programs, particularly for industries dealing with a young workforce accustomed to positive reinforcement.

As a general guideline for selecting a creative corporate incentive gift, the gift should have some resonance with the company brand or values. According the article, many businesses theme each gift around an assigned monthly value, like “positivity” or “problem solver.” The article also contains suggestions for involving the entire office (if size dictates) in choosing each month’s recipient.

Give Your Employees Their Very Own Christmas Star

The holidays are usually filled with enough gift giving to last even the most spirited among us another eleven months. Corporations are just as easily swept up in that same spirit, especially when it comes to the people who make the workplace better for their presence, those recognized far and wide as the best employees and the most valued players. And like all of us, corporations are constantly searching for the perfect holiday gifts to impart upon their top performers.

Name a Star Live is a unique service offered by Space Services Inc. that gives a corporation the opportunity to pay tribute to exemplary workers by naming a star in their honor. And although Name a Star is available year-round, no other season is better suited to this kind of symbolic gesture than Christmas. Their wholesale personalized corporate gifts are a cost effective method for corporations to reward their best employees with Christmas stars of their very own.