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	<title>Thanks and Recognition</title>
	<link>http://thanksandrecognition.com/blog</link>
	<description>Providing support to management &amp; employees to achieve a high performance culture.</description>
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		<title>Learning from Whales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Holidays are a good time to ponder on things. I was at SeaWorld watching the whales go through their highly demanding and synchronised show. You can only sit and admire the show and wonder how the trainers do it. And wonder if there is a lesson to be learned here. Clearly they get food rewards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>…and they work for us….</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, the “Times” has been running a series of articles concerning the relationship between the Civil Service and the Government of the day. This has served to take the imagery far beyond that of “Yes Minister” and has also lifted some of the veil surrounding the machinations of Whitehall. Recent headline grabbing events such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1501 Ways to Reward Employees by Bob Nelson PhD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bob Nelson has done it again.  An updated version of the original 1001 book has just been issued. It’s thicker as you would expect with 500 more ideas. More significantly, it addresses the modern working environment where outsourcing, part time and contract working is now a widely adopted practice by many companies. Keeping people motivated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thanksandrecognition.com/blog/2012/05/24/1501-ways-to-reward-employees-by-bob-nelson-phd/</link>
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		<title>Action for Happiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For 50 years or more we have been exhorted to aim high to garner higher incomes and material prosperity in order to achieve happiness. But at what cost….a widening gap between the haves and have nots, significant increase in the levels of anxiety and depression especially among the young, and a sense that we have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thanksandrecognition.com/blog/2012/04/29/action-for-happiness-2/</link>
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		<title>Working with Thanks &amp; Recognition</title>
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		<link>http://thanksandrecognition.com/blog/2012/01/17/working-with-thanks-recognition/</link>
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		<title>How we got here</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The origins of TR Welcome to our new website. Some people may be curious about our origins, especially when the backgrounds of the team are noted. We have a wide range of experience, and there lies the answer. We had all worked together on various aspects of reward, and performance management in organisations across the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thanksandrecognition.com/blog/2012/01/03/how-we-got-here/</link>
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		<title>An appreciation of  “The Five Languages of Appreciation” by Drs Gary Chapman and Paul White.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Employee engagement is a much talked about subject with many claims to deliver large bottom line gains. But, what constitutes employee engagement and how do you, in practice, improve it? The web shows it is an active topic, but it appears to be somewhat fragmented. But Drs Chapman and White, in their book, “The 5 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thanksandrecognition.com/blog/2011/12/30/an-appreciation-of-%e2%80%9cthe-five-languages-of-appreciation%e2%80%9d-by-drs-gary-chapman-and-paul-white/</link>
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		<title>Innovate or Die</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are being told that the economy is in a desperate situation and that growth is the key to resolving the problem. We have been here before and have somehow muddled through. But is that going to be good enough this time? The global economy has become more complex and the number of competitors more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thanksandrecognition.com/blog/2011/12/16/innovate-or-die/</link>
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		<title>Slow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the time of the Industrial Revolution, we have come to associate progress with increasing speed. Whether this be physical speed in the form of motor transport or in terms of virtual speed as provided by telecommunications, it has taken on a characteristic of being what we all want and aspire to; and a badge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thanksandrecognition.com/blog/2011/12/10/hello-world/</link>
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		<title>Yum Yums &amp; Employee Engagement</title>
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		<link>http://thanksandrecognition.com/blog/2011/12/05/yum-yums-employee-engagement/</link>
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