Moments
The latest posts that were tagged with "Moments".
Celebrate National Employee Appreciation Day
03/04/2011Employee Appreciation Day is a great time to celebrate your company’s greatest asset, the employees! The day first arrived on calendars in 1995 and was created to be a way of capturing the interest of all employers in all indus...
The Only r-word used at MTM is Recognition
03/03/2011Sticks and stones may break bones, but words can break spirits. The words “retard” and “retarded” have often been used to degrade people with mental or physical disabilities and are synonymous with calling someone “dumb” or “st...
Milestones are for Celebrating
02/07/2011Economists say we are in the beginning stages of bouncing back from the tough years we’ve endured both in business and personal life. Whether you agree with this or not there is one part of business that remains exceedingly imp...
Champions of all Kinds
01/11/2011The 2010 Bowl Season was certainly an exciting one for everyone involved: players, coaches, fans and especially for MTM! As the supplier of 21 of the Bowl trophies, we share in these victories each year. Congratulations...
It is Bowl Season!
12/30/2010Watch for MTM!Without a doubt the highlight of college football is Bowl Season. We see some of the best games and most intense emotions. After all the offseason work, summer camps and a toiling fall schedule, it all comes down ...
Statue Unveiling
11/18/2010As the sun shone through the fall leaves on the University of Oklahoma's campus on Saturday morning, hundreds of fans gathered with anticipation as the newest of OU’s coaching giants were unveiled in the form of two heroic size...
A Salute to Our Veterans
11/11/2010Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, "Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die." Our ...
A Special Unveiling
10/19/2010Just got back from a great trip to St. Louis! The occasion was the unveiling of the life- size bronze sculpture of hockey legend Brett Hull and I was privileged to be the sculptor. The weather was a warm 85 degrees;...
Award Winning Design
10/12/2010For nearly five decades, Graphic Design USA has presented national design competitions that spotlight areas of excellence and opportunity for creative professional. This contest is open to everyone in the community: advertising...
MTM Recognition Ranked in Recognition Service Provider’s Top Five Listing
09/21/2010MTM Recognition is proud to announce our recent ranking in HRO Today as one of the top five recognition solutions providers. HRO’s September 2010, publication featured the annual Baker’s Dozen of Recognition Providers with resu...
5 Quick Guidelines for Your Program
08/30/20101. Communicate What is Expected We all have a craving to be appreciated and recognized. Do you recognize the types of behaviors you want repeated? Do you communicate with your employees what it takes to get to those levels of a...
Rise Together
08/16/2010MTM’s success is built on the foundation that we all work together toward a common goal of serving our clients and providing unique, high-quality recognition products. In this spirit, employees in all of MTM Recogni...
Building Championships
07/30/2010MTM Recognition's Oklahoma City headquarters welcomed guests from CBS College Sports recently for a "behind the scenes" look at the making of the NCAA Championship Trophy. MTM has been the of...
Happy Birthday Special Olympics!
07/22/2010July 20, 2010 marked the 42nd Birthday of the Special Olympics movement. As I reflect today on my 20 plus year involvement with Special Olympics, I think back to Baton Rouge where I volunteered for the firs...
2010 MTM Sales Meeting
07/06/2010I hit the ground running with my first Annual Sales Meeting (ASM) experience at MTM Recognition. When I started at MTM in March I heard stories about past ASMs and I envisioned a huge, remarkable event. I was right. I helped in...
Be Nice!
06/08/2010A good friend of mine concludes nearly every conversation we have by telling me to “Be Nice.” He is a nice guy himself and he encourages me not just by saying the words, but by the way he lives.Something happened to me to...
Jack Nortz (continued)…
05/28/2010Upon returning from the Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada, to my home town of Syracuse, New York, I was excited about trying my hand at wood carving. I had seen a wood carving that had inspired me and I was ready to...
Thrill of Tournament Play
04/05/2010As I watched the OU women play in the Elite Eight, I didn’t have to imagine what Abi Olajuwon was feeling as she stepped on the court, having been a fellow post player at a major Division I school. Rewind to M...
Parsley's Perspective
03/17/2010Brian is a Certified Professional Behavior Analyst who travels the world helping organizations change the way they do business. Pulling from his experience as Chairman of a national online recruitment site, Brian knows wh...
Spread the Word to End the Word
03/03/2010Today, thousands of Special Olympics athletes and supporters gathered throughout the world, to educate our society about the harmful use of the r-word (retard). People were asked to take the pledge online at www....
Ideal Motivational Perk?
02/26/2010Many companies see cash as the ideal motivational perk. This is usually not the case. A recent survey from McKinsey found that three non-cash motivators rise above all other forms of incentive: Praise from managersAttention of...
Kaleidoscope
01/04/2010Are the changes in this economy a kaleidoscope or a snow globe? What is the difference between the two toys – a twist of the kaleidoscope shatters one image and produces an entirely new one fr...
Happy Birthday to Everyone as Applicable
09/30/2009I was recently in Starbucks where they were promoting a “Celebration Mug” which included a pen and a writable area for personalization. It needed no explanation that by its very definition, celebrations should be personal...
Recognition is Memorable
09/14/2009Having worked at a company that manufactures and distributes awards for over 30 years, I’ve seen my share of award presentations and ceremonies, both personally and televised. The really cool thing about awards is that they ha...
Memorable Milestones
06/25/2009On November 11, 2007, Morley Safer in a 60 Minutes video said, “The recognition and incentive industry is a $50 billion a year business. Ain't America great?". That’s a staggering number, but probably pretty accurate. With thi...
