Aug. 2, 2011 NAPERVILLE, Ill. – While the business climate today is certainly no chuckle fest, The Forum: Business Results Through People is joining improv hotbed Second City to help companies improve their bottom line using a little levity. Scheduled for Wed., Oct. 26, 2011, The Forum’s Fourth Annual Think Tank, entitled “The Enrichment Experience: Engaging Great Minds and the Power of People in...
Frankenmuth, MI – July 23-24, 2011 – The British are coming to Frankenmuth’s River Place Shops! And so are the French and Americans. It’s all part of the Cass River Colonial Encampment taking place July 23-24 on the grounds of the spacious outdoor Frankenmuth mall. Some 200 actors will recreate Revolutionary War battles with historic accuracy, complete with booming cannons, muskets firing and...
June 14, 2011 – Crystal Lake, Ill. – National Gift Card Corp. (NGC) announced today that effective June 24, 2011, the company will relocate its corporate headquarters to Elgin, Ill. “This larger office, operations, and warehouse space will allow us to better serve our growing customer and retail business partner base, while giving the company room to continue expansion of our product and service...
June 14, 2011 NAPERVILLE, Ill. – As part of its research into the new motivational concept of employee enrichment, The Forum: Business Results Through People (The Forum), affiliated with Northwestern University, recently conducted a study to identify the best practices of companies that encourage high levels of “Human Value Connection,” a key component of employee enrichment. In its newest white...
St. Louis, MO – June 11, 2011 – Non-cash incentives are being tapped as a way to both control spending and motivate employees and channel partners in an economy defined by growing austerity. The average employee cash incentive award is now $732–triple the cost of non-cash awards, according to preliminary findings of a new joint study about incentive awards conducted by the Incentive...
Dearborn & Canton, MI – June 6, 2011 – The video, “Stepping Up To Fatherhood,” produced by Logos Communications, Inc. for Educational Data Systems, Inc. (EDSI), has earned a Telly Award in the non-broadcast productions–social issues category. The video was made for use by EDSI, a workforce development and training consulting company headquartered in Dearborn, MI, and focused on...
Naperville, IL – June 6, 2011 – The business thought leadership organization, The Forum, has published a new white paper which reexamines the crucial link between how effectively managers communicate and how their communication strengths – or weaknesses – affect the level that employees are engaged in their work. The paper, authored for The Forum by Curtis Walker Jr., who recently completed a...
May 24, 2011 – More than 50 percent of the small business owners surveyed across Michigan are taking a wait and see approach to forthcoming changes that are the result of national health care reform passed last year, according to a new survey of the members of the Michigan Business and Professional Association (MBPA) and the Michigan Food and Beverage Association (MFBA) headquartered in Warren...
May 18, 2011 – The Detroit Chapter of TiE, welcomes former Detroit Red Wing Doug Brown to The Westin-Southfield on Monday, May 23, 2011. Brown will speak about what it means to be a great leader and how to create a winning team. Agenda: 6 pm – Networking and Introductions 7 pm – Former Detroit Red Wing – Doug Brown • What does it mean to be a Great Leader? • Creating a “team” that can...
May 11, 2011 – Frankenmuth, MI – More than 35 of the most experienced hot air balloon pilots in the nation will invade the skies over Frankenmuth, Mich. at the 2nd annual Great Lakes Regional & Michigan State Hot Air Balloon Championships over Memorial Day weekend, May 27 -30, 2011. Thirty-seven balloonists will compete and fly for accuracy in flight tasks and hitting targets on the...