Special Report

While it has widely been predicted that business travel will never return to pre-COVID levels, incentive travel — the concept of bringing groups of high-performers together to celebrate successes — could be a motivation tool that’s too effective to abandon.

Like everything else in the pandemic year, workplace recognition and managing teams for improved performance have been disrupted. In a virtual world, it’s harder to gauge team members’ needs, celebrate successes and make employees feel valued.

Employees are motivated when their work has relevance. Business adviser and author Lisa Lai offers these tips for how managers can make work more meaningful for those on their team.

Employees are more than a box on an organizational chart. Because of the challenges of the pandemic, they’ve become partners in the future of your business. They need to be treated that way.

If your one-on-one reviews leave employees rolling their eyes — managers often are the last ones to discover this — here are five tips from HR service provider...

A full recovery is expected at some point, but the look of group travel may be forever changed

In 2013, Michael Patrick Smith, in his mid-30s at the time, moved from New York City to Williston, North Dakota, to find work in the oil fields of the Bakken Formation, which was then the epicenter of the fracking industry in North America. Smith, a theater major, playwright and musician, had no experience in that line of work, but he was dissatisfied with his office job and flailing at life in general.

“Wait — let me get a pencil and paper to take that down. (Pause) OK, what was it you wanted?” No B2B buyer wants to hear that...

Imagine if cars came without engines. They would look nice, but they wouldn’t do much. You could wash and wax the car all day....