See You At The Motivation Show

The annual Motivation Show at McCormick Place in Chicago, October 9-11, is right around the corner. This year's theme "Business Solutions That Move People" is well timed given the challenging economy we all face. Corporate layoffs, slow or zero-growth sales and declining or stagnant productivity are challenges that nearly every business faces.Incentives or performance improvement programs present an effective strategy to address these issues.

The annual Motivation Show Workshop and Seminar Series addresses these concerns and the opportunities they present for our industry. This year you can choose from over 50 seminars. The focus of the workshops and seminars will be on providing real-life solutions for common challenges that every business faces.

Subject areas include incentive program basics, motivation strategies and trends and strategies for employee recognition and performance improvement. For a complete list of subjects go to the official show web site www.motivationshow.com .

PFI is conducting a seminar at the Motivation Show this year. and will be conducting the workshop titled "Company Wide Performance Improvement Planning" on Thursday, October 11th at 11:00 AM. This presentation offers a practical guide to capitalizing on an opportunity to develop and fulfill a corporate-based incentive/performance improvement program. Why is this important? Large and mid-size cities alike are homes to at least one if not many corporate headquarter offices. Corporate offices in all industries face many of the same challenges to productivity, cost containment, turnover, absenteeism, morale, etc. Employee-focused performance improvement programs offer positive and measurable solutions to these problems and represent a significant market for incentives and recognition programs and applications. The challenge lies in how you approach these organizations, address their goals and capitalize on the incentive program opportunities they present.

This workshop is designed to meet these challenges. Specifically this workshop focuses on:

1. How to turn "Big Picture" goals into practical performance improvement solutions that yield bottom line results for you and your clients.
2. Basic guidelines, or success factors, for navigating the corporate corridors and getting your ideas implemented.
3. Some basic all-employee performance improvement strategies.

If you're planning on attending the Motivation Show, plan on attending this workshop as well. You will walk away with some effective ideas for selling and fulfilling corporate all-employee programs.

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