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In the Wall Street Journal article linked below, Senator Elizabeth Warren chooses to refer to the incentives offered to agents for selling certain types of annuities as “Kickbacks”. Really?! Is that what she meant to say because at an initial glance it seemed awfully irresponsible and uniformed to me? Wanting to make sure I did not misunderstand her, I thought I would look up the word Kickback to see if its connotation to me was way off. It wasn’t. Varying definitions of “kickback” use words like “bribery, coercion, illegal, collusion, secret, and dishonest”.

The Forbes Article – 5 Ways Leaders Rock hits the nail on the head in general and the list of 5 recommendations for proper employee recognition are accurately written for sure.  That said, I would offer up a few more ways leaders can rock employee recognition which I have derived from nearly 30 years of providing such programs.