The COVID-19 pandemic has changed workplaces dramatically over the last year. Many people have been working from home, more of our meetings are held virtually, and large gatherings have been nearly eliminated. But now that we are...
Many people have older trophies and plaques from their childhood or from family members and are not sure what to do with them. Should they be displayed? If so, what is the best way? How...
Now that you are ordering high-quality trophies and plaques, you need to consider how you will present your awards. In many cases, you will need to prepare short remarks before you present your award plaques or...
The great English poet John Keats, knowing he was soon to die from tuberculosis, and fearing that he hadn’t really made his mark on the world, famously asked that his tombstone be inscribed not with...
Some of the most striking plaques, trophies and other award items are those made of glass or crystal. But what’s the difference between these two materials? The short answer is that while all crystal is glass,...
Giving awards must be a basic human need. People just seem to feel an urge to recognize standout performance by others in any field of endeavor, and to mark that recognition by presenting the high...
It should be pretty obvious that people are intrigued by lists. Humans have been making them for thousands of years, from the long catalogs of Sumerian kings dating back to the 26th century B.C., to...
Intuition and common sense are enough to tell us that we human beings seem to greatly enjoy and value the experience of giving and receiving awards. But it’s always nice when our informal day-to-day observations...
Believe it or not, extensive scientific research and theorizing has been done on the giving and receiving of gifts – what motivates people to do it, what purpose it serves, and what benefits it brings...
As we all know, the social distancing required by COVID-19 has led many businesses to require their employees to work remotely from home. Meetings by teleconference, once a sometime thing, have quickly become the new...
Who wears a wind-up wristwatch these days? Many of us now choose to tell time with our cell phones, and if we do wear a timepiece on our wrist, it’s most likely to be a...
With COVID-19 turning the whole world upside down, many men and women who are going through medical training have had their educational journey disrupted. And some of them are entering the front lines of health...
