PIC White Papers Accelerate Recognition to Accelerate Profits Accelerating results through the Science of Performance  - Click here to see a Case Study.   Choosing a Performance Improvement Company to Meet Your Company's Needs An overview of the issues involved with selecting the right company for your needs.   The Economics of Retention Sound employee retention strategies not only can head off a future problem, they can save money and improve sales today.   Employee Lifetime Value Using customer lifetime value to demystify employee lifetime value   Employee Lifetime Value: “The People Impact” on Financial Success Organizations need to be able to measure the value of people, and need to understand the value of people over extended periods of time in order to make intelligent decisions about how to invest in their employees and to ensure they are appropriately valuing their workforce.  The concept of Employee Lifetime Value (ELTV) is a long-term metric with insights on measuring the financial value of an employee to an organization.   Engaging Your Employees Q: Should staff cutbacks mean cutbacks in rewards and recognition? The expert we spoke to says during cutbacks or other tough times, a recognition and reward program is more important than ever.   Exploring the Building Blocks of Employee Lifetime Value (ELTV) This white paper, the second in a series developed by the Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement and the Performance Improvement Council of the Incentive Marketing Association, defines ELTV and presents a tactical approach to begin strategically evaluating ELTV.   Finding the Right Mix Determining the right mix of compensation, benefits, training, and rewards & recognition.   Keeping Your Best Customers for the Long Term The more customers you keep through active retention efforts, and the longer you keep them, the more profitable your company will be.   Optimizing Human Capital in Tough Times This Whitepaper takes an excitingly different look at ways to sustain employee engagement in companies caught up in the challenges of today’s economic downturn. Despite shrinking revenues and unrelenting expenses, the analysis concludes that employees are still the biggest contributing factor for success or failure in the drive to do more with less.   Performance Management & Incentive in the Era of Sarbanes-Oxley Overview of Sox specifics, How SOX affect incentive and recognition programs and where to go for more information.   Social Networking and Recognition: A Case for Virtual Storytelling and Real Results. Social networking has transformed communications and will continue to alter both personal and business use. It only makes good business sense for companies to consider using the same electronic tools that employees already embrace as a way to recognize their contribution, and encourage others to do the same. Citing the growing importance of electronic tools in business, the Performance Improvement Council (PIC) endorses virtual methods for amplifying the use of employee recognition and rewards in its new white paper, Social Networking and Recognition: A Case for Virtual Storytelling and Real Results.