Gateway Rewards research reveals a big disconnect in perceptions around reward and recognition within companies. While about 90 percent of senior decision-makers believe their companies are sufficiently recognizing people who…
At Thoma, we work with six research-proven areas of strength found in thriving businesses with strong cultures and high customer-centricity. Bringing focus to these six disciplines inside a business creates…
As we move into 2021, I can’t help but get a mental image of space travelers returning to earth and emerging from their tiny spacecraft into a vastly altered environment–so…
As the Coronavirus has made work-from-home a common situation, most of us are finding ourselves conducting or participating in online meetings using video tools such as Zoom, Google Hangouts or…
Ah, the “happy hour” — a civilized concept harkening to a sort of 1950s civility — when one celebrates the day’s work, finds an hour of ease, light banter, perhaps…
There are words you hope you never hear inside a doctor’s office, and if they come, they take your breath away and nothing is really ever quite the same. A…
In my 30-plus years of marketing, I’ve seen an evolutionary shift in how brands are offered, advertised and supplied to consumers driven largely by the rise of the internet and…
How many times have you visited a company boardroom and noticed an expensively framed and lavishly displayed mission statement or core values list? Ever wonder what percentage of employees can…
I tell my clients that brand leadership work is the softer, more spiritual part of the life of a business. This often makes the leadership team squirm.
I recently found myself in a different sort of creative project — creating the program introduction for a gala honoring a beloved local celebrity, Craig O’Neil, who was being honored…
