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Jeff Gunther, Owner
Recognition Works
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About Recognition Works
Back in the ‘80’s, when I started in the recognition business in the Baltimore Washington area, I worked with a desk telephone and an automobile. Fortunately, Federal Express had just been launched, so I was able to get program specs and artwork done within 2 weeks. To survive on the road, I knew where the best pay phone booths were, the cleanest restrooms, and the best fast food places for doing paper work. The fax machine didn’t become part of my business life until about 1987.
I spent hours every day either on the phone with our customers or with them face to face in their office. Proper business attire for me was a suit and tie. The IBM salesman was our dress model- white shirt and dark suit.
I primarily worked with our customers in designing and manufacturing lapel pins with colored stones and diamonds for their service award programs. To mix it up a little, we would recommend a bracelet, necklace, and even a mantel clock at 25 years!
Change on top of change has altered the landscape of our business; not just in the way organizations recognize employees, but more dramatically, in the strategic importance of recognizing the individual employee’s contribution to the corporate bottom line. The amazing technology that exists today to capture data and to translate it for the COO’s and the CEO’s of our companies means that recognition programs now can carry more than ever a measureable performance facet.
I will continue to help my customers build the best Years of Service, Safety and Performance programs that their budgets allow. And I will never cease to be amazed at how far we have travelled, and how the landscape of the recognition business has changed. We’re all in this together…. the Human Resources managers, the Safety managers, and everyone in corporate America who is charged with ensuring that employees contribute to their maximum potential.
Recognition programs will light the path, and Recognition Works will lead the way.
