I’m fascinated in how we compensate and incentivize employees. Not the actual process, but the decision-making process behind the what and how we do it. In my experience, how this usually goes is a two-level process: First Level: Someone has a hunch, or it’s being done this way somewhere else. Second Level: Someone in compensation searches for data to justify …
The Corporate Recruitment Incentive Program
There’s a barrier that is keeping corporate talent acquisition from reaching its highest levels of productivity. That barrier is incentive compensation, and the reason it’s a barrier is because no organization has figured out how to solve it. The main reason for this is there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. The main problem is that most corporate TA leaders who attempt …
I Hate Gamification – ‘Cuz it works…
I hate made up marketing words. Gamification is one of them. And I’m almost as turned off by the millions of posts and updates about gamification. But regardless of how I feel about it… It works like a charm. I’ve played in the Incentive and Reward space for years and we’ve been doing gamification since 1940 but we called it …
Hey Big Shot! Don’t Think You Have Impact? Think Again.
Sometimes it’s the little things that matter. You do something you think is a toss-out, nothing big, nothing important. But ya know what? Even the very, very little things matter… and can matter a lot! Take a recent experience I had with someone I used to work with. I recently met with a friend from the ghost-of-employment-past to talk about …
Can Autonomy Mastery and Purpose Work in Today’s Business Environment?
We’ve all been beat over the head for the last 18 months or so with the idea that incentives don’t work. We’ve watched Wall Street bonuses become the “it girl” for bad incentives. We’ve read and listened to Dan Pink talk about how incentives are not the best way to drive performance in an organization. As HR people we get …