With over 10 years of experience creating custom awards for clients including Audi, Frito-Lay, Sony, Abbott Nutrition, Genentech, Century 21 and Anheuser Busch, Karen McCrea shares her perspective on the latest trends in custom award design as well as her personal favorite finishing techniques.
13 Unique Employee Recognition Award Ideas for 2021
5 Favorite Custom Award Statues Throughout The Years
Employee Recognition Ideas During Covid-19
According to a 2018 State of Workplace Empathy Study by Businessolver, 96% of employees believe showing empathy is an important way to advance employee retention. The following suggestions provide some innovative ideas to appreciate and inspire the people on your team who will pull us through these tough times.
Introducing Our Hero's Heart
On the Our Hero’s Heart website, you can now purchase recognition pins, awards, and complementary items that demonstrably show how much you appreciate and value your personal heroes. These pins have designated colors and can be given to any of your modern-day heroes, from healers and educators to providers and protectors.
Bennett Gives Back: American Cancer Society
Bennett Gives Back
We’ve created a new program - Bennett Gives Back - to recognize some of the incredible non-profit organizations we have worked with in the past. Each month, as chosen by one of employees, we will be posting a profile of one of these non-profit organizations on our website to highlight the amazing work they are doing, and making a small donation to their cause.
Include Awards in your Integrated Branding Campaign
Almost all marketing plans now recognize the importance of integrated branding. While most of the major elements of a marketing mix are included in this, awards are often treated as an afterthought. As a physical, highly visible, long-lasting opportunity for promoting your brand, however, your awards should be viewed as an important compnent of your integrated branding campaign.
Using Brand Icons for Custom Sculpture Awards
Brand icons can be one of the most effective design themes for custom sculpture awards. They reinforce, and leverage, all of the brand equity that has been built up over time in these icons. These awards will automatically convey all of the brand attributes associated with the icon upon which they are based. In essence, a lot of the heavy lifting in terms of message connotation is already done.
Primer for Ordering Crystal Awards
Creating Custom Awards Based On Organizational Logos
Most organizations use their logo as a foundational element in the branding and identity programs. Strong logos can be visual short-hands for consumers to reinforce an organization's brand identity and attributes. Forward-thinking organizations look for every opportunity to use their logo to help build and perpetuate their brand logo. Custom awards provide yet another vehicle to promote a logo, only this time in an engaging, novel, 3D form.
Interactive Awards: A Novel Approach to Custom Awards
Extending Your Custom Awards with Add-On Components
Custom Engraving Options For Awards And Trophies
One of the most important aspects of presenting a recognition award is to ensure that it is personalized for the recipient, event or presenting organization (or some combination of all of these). One simple and cost-effective way to personalize your awards and trophies is to incorporate a customized engraving on the base of your awards. This post outlines some of your options for incorporating personalized engravings on your awards.