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NOVEMBER 2009 CONTENTS PAGE 10 merchandise travel gift cards FEATURES AND DEPARTMENTS Editor’s Note: Incentive Excellence Exchange It’s an exciting time here at Incentive: Our first Grand Motivation Master award winner will be announced live next month at the Las Vegas Incentive Marketplace, and merchandise platform CorporateRewardsXchange.com is up and running PG 6 By Vincent Alonzo Cover Story: Growing Globally, Software Developer Symantec Seeks Centralized Recognition When an acquisition doubled its size, software maker Symantec realized its recognition programs, fragmented across hundreds of offices on six continents, had to be brought under one roof PG 16 By Alex Palmer Headlines PAGE 16 In a counterattack to the abuse and misinformation incentives suffered this year, the Incentive Federation spearheads an industry-first effort to lobby Congress, starting with wellness programs PG 8 Edited by Leo Jakobson Strategies: Motivating the Six Workplace Personality Types Employees don’t have one-size-fits-all personas, and your motivation program won’t work as well as it can if managers assume as much PG 24 By Shari Frisinger Amway’s Over-the-Top 50th Anniversary Incentive Trip Incentive travel is a core of Amway’s business model, so the direct-selling organization made its golden anniversary event for top global partners an event to remember—even by Las Vegas standards PG 10 By Leo Jakobson Primer: Five Tools CEOs Can Use To Improve Engagement From broad-based communications to one-on-one contact with top performers, your CEO can be a powerful ally in improving employee engagement PG 26 By Marcia Xenitelis TRAVEL, AWARDS, AND GIFT CARDS Travel News: Where to Go and How to Get There Two major European incentives and meetings trade shows have announced shows for the U.S. in 2011: IMEX America and the Americas IBTM PG 29 Edited by Leo Jakobson Potentials: Here and Now The retailer gift card market, in a rut, faces a challenging holiday season; Apple’s new iPod nano offers a video camera, microphone, speaker, FM radio tuner, and pedometer PG 45 Edited by William Ng Incentive Gift Card Directory From restaurants and movie tickets, to storedvalue and gas cards, to hot-air balloons and five-star hotels, there’s something for every desire and every budget in our annual directory PG 50 Switzerland’s Incentive Offerings Are Legendary With the epic Alpine vistas, world-class hotels, and well-organized destination management companies, Switzerland offers all incentive planners need Digital Cameras for the Social Networking Era From smile recognition and built-in Wi-Fi to a point-and-shoot that doubles as a projector, the newest-generation pocket-size digital cameras cater to Facebookers and YouTubers PG 31 By David Block PG 46 By William Ng PAGE 31 4 | Incentive | November 2009 | incentivemag.com http://www.CorporateRewardsXchange.com http://www.incentivemag.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Incentive - November 2009

Incentive - November 2009
Contents
Editor’s Note: Incentive Excellence Exchange
Headlines
Amway’s Over-the-Top 50th Anniversary Incentive Trip
Cover Story: Growing Globally, Software Developer Symantec Seeks Centralized Recognition
Strategies: Motivating the Six Workplace Personality Types
Primer: Five Tools CEOs Can Use To Improve Engagement
Travel News: Where to Go and How to Get There
Switzerland’s Incentive Offerings Are Legendary
Potentials: Here and Now
Digital Cameras for the Social Networking Era
Incentive Gift Card Directory

Incentive - November 2009