Uplift: How to Design Events that Elevate Financial and Insurance Company Performance

Presenter: Andy Schwarz

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A new report from Incentive Research Foundation benchmarks best practices employed by top financial services and insurance companies to influence performance, shape culture, strengthen partnerships, and retain top talent using non-cash rewards. Surprise: incentive events play a pivotal role in all those areas.
You will learn:
  • The factors that make a difference in the company bottom line
  • How to prioritize rewards and cross-department networking to make a difference.
  • How to claim your value with executive teams.

Andy Schwarz is Vice President, Content & Communications, Incentive Research Foundation, an organization that funds and promotes research to increase the understanding, effective use and benefits of incentives to businesses globally. Andy works with a team of researchers to distill complex research and data into accessible, actionable insights. That research is the basis for reports and education programs delivered both virtually and at incentive-level live events. Each year the IRF releases 10 – 12 studies on industry trends, benchmarks, best practices and insights.

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