Business is tough today. More pressure to be successful. More scrutiny on the bottom line. More demands for increases to the top line. It’s tough to be an employee these days.
It’s tough to be a manager too.
As a manager, keeping your job in these difficult times probably means being a bit more focused on your employees – and more focused on making sure they don’t make mistakes. No one likes to be on the agenda at the next Executive meeting on mahogany row.
Read the whole post over at Paul’s new home: Symbolist (an FOT contributor blog).
Paul Hebert is Senior Account Executive at WorkStride, Inc, and a writer, speaker and consultant. Paul focuses on helping connect best-in-class incentive technology platform to behaviors you need drive business results through employees, channel partners and consumers.
Using proven motivational theory, behavioral economics and social psychology he has driven extraordinary company performance for his clients. Paul is widely considered an expert on motivation, incentives, and engagement.
Other notable activities:
- Interviewed by the BBC on executive motivation and pay
- Quoted three times in USATODAY as an expert in incentives and channel travel programs
- Published in Loyalty360 magazine
- Writer and founding member of the editorial advisory board at the HRExaminer website
- Contributing author of “Enterprise Engagement: The Textbook: A Roadmap to Achieving Organizational Results Through People”
- Contributing author of 3 books on social media “The Age of Conversation #1, #2, and #3”