Tag: recognition
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3rd In the Series – Design for the Many – Not the Few?
As I make the transition to the new site I will be publishing updates here that link to the new site and once again urge you to subscribe to updates from the new site. I hope you do subscribe and hope this isn’t too much of a pain for you. Consider subscribing to the the…
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Enterprise Incentive and Recognition Design – Part 2 – Time to Align
Note to Subscribers: Sort of a bait and switch here… If you don’t want to read this quick update on my blog subscriptions you can get to the article by clicking here. On to the update. When I started blogging again on my own site I quickly threw together this site on WordPress.com. After a…
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Enterprise Incentive and Recognition Design – The 5-Part Series
No one believes because they dissected a frog in High School they are qualified to perform surgery on their pets or heaven forbid another human (well some do but yuck!) Yet when it comes to incentive and recognition program design it seems that a lot of people believe that simply because they have been in…
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Should You Pay Employees Extra for Working on Special Organizational Projects?
Somewhat recently (sorry – I’m a bit backlogged) a question came up on one of my HR-focused discussion groups in Facebook. The poster was seeking ideas on how to compensate employees for being part of a company effort described as… “…a pretty large scale conversion with two of the major systems that our employees use.…
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New Research: Employees Work Harder When They Are Almost Starving
[Warning – rant ahead] Love that headline? What if I told you that you can get more production from your employees if they are hungry? Or cold. Or tired. Or flat out exhausted. What if I told you that the most creative and innovative your employees can be is after they are sleep deprived for…
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Because only 10% of your team really matters, right?
Say you have 100 sales people (or employees with a quantifiable metric) and you want to do something to drive increased performance. Most of the time you, or your VP of Sales will suggest an “incentive” program to get people focused on sales and reward those who sell more. Often it will be some sort…