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Brace yourself: the holiday season will be here before you know it! And that’s why early to mid-fall is the ideal time to plan your corporate holiday gifts. To help get the ideas flowing, we’ve compiled four corporate holiday gift trends based on our recent client collaborations and market research. Let’s dive in!

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Rate the importance of each factor in our poll to building an even more effective employee engagement program. According to a recent report published by Gallup (August 26, 2018) employee engagement figures are the highest and most favorable since the organization began reporting almost two decades ago.

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As an evolving technology seeking practical applications, blockchain has been an active topic of discussion throughout my internship at Augeo. It seems that almost everyday new uses emerge or predictions are made about blockchain. Debates rage about which industries will be disrupted due to blockchain's promise of data verifiability, immutability, and the democratization of information. While it remains to be seen how blockchain technology will disrupt or enhance the loyalty and engagement market, vetting alternatives, learning, and experimenting seems like a prudent course of action. If you are interested in better understanding blockchain, here's some resources I found most useful.

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Learn how the timing of employee rewards or recognition can influence effectiveness. Most of us are concerned with what we need get done each day, but rarely do we consider what time of the day we should do our work to optimize our productivity.

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Every business requires various forms of capital. First, there is financial capital to fund the launch of the organization securing workspace, talent, machinery and technology. Next, there is human capital to foster invention, fuel innovation and fundamentally run the business. And while those two are essential, social capital, may be the most important to building sustainable success. I'm not talking about the external "social capital" that is created from corporate philanthropy, pro-social projects or outward facing media activities. My focus here is on harnessing and leveraging the valuable social interactions that happen between employees–your "internal" social capital.

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One of the simplest but most important facts about membership programs is that they are not all the same. Despite what some may think, there is no "one size fits all". Every membership program has its unique audience, demographics, benefits, and engagement philosophies that speak to the thinking, values, and interests of the group. Companies that share this viewpoint reap the rewards.

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Augeo Insights presents Julie Burton, founder of ModernWell, a women's co-working space and author of "The Self-Care Solution: A Modern Mother's Essential Guide to Health and Well Being". Julie sat down with Ken Greer, Augeo CMO, to share her thoughts on the needs of working women and how workspaces matter.

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There's a lot of buzz these days about the changing nature of the workplace. HR professionals talk about special considerations required for Millennial or Gen Z workers. No doubt each generation of worker requires personalized care and feeding to nurture skills and optimize engagement. Another way of approaching rewards is to make adjustments based on career lifecycle stage versus demographic segmentation.

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My car recently turned six, which is middle-aged in car years. It isn't young and filled with new tech features and it isn't old enough to be classic, cool and full of character. Both of those cars have dreams of long, winding road trips; my six year old car is thinking about his upcoming milestone maintenance and wondering if he should tint his windows, get new rims or perhaps try a different air freshener.

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