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Energized Disengagement ? The New Trend
2012-02-09 15:38:00 I?m going to tell you the one thing no incentive company will tell you. Don?t run that recognition and reward program to fix your employee engagement problems. Don?t do it. Don?t do it. Don?t do it. Run a Program Save The World Here?s the problem. Most of the time the people tasked with driving ... More About: Human Resources , Leadership , Motivation , Employment , Performance Management
Why Do Pilots Use Simulators? Consequence Free Mistakes
2012-02-08 15:04:00 Simulators save lives and money. That?s why. Simulating problems and situations before you have to deal with them in real life allows you to learn something in a risk-free environment ? risk-free to you personally and to those that may need to rely on your judgment and abilities. You might think that since you?re ... More About: Customer Service , Change , Employment , Employee , Ohio State University
Employee Radar ? Repost
2012-02-07 14:30:00 This was originally posted in September of 2007 but it seems to me to be as applicable today as it was 4 years ago. At that time this site didn’t have as many subscribers or followers so I’m reposting hoping to get some more conversation started around this idea. We don’t understand our employees as ... More About: Human Resources , Motivation , Employment , Recognition , Employee
Employee Motivation Is About People Connections. Who Knew?
2012-02-06 13:25:00 We can spend all day talking about the right award, the right system, the right communication package that will motivate employees at your company. But at the end of the day, if you want to motivate your people you need to get outside your company and outside your reward program. You need to get ... More About: Science , Human Resources , Change , Behavior , Motivation
Incentive & Reward Programs Need More UGC
2012-02-03 14:12:00 UGC? What is UGC? User. Generated. Content. Old School ? New School In the days of Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble incentive programs to drive more rock breaking at the quarry came with elaborate communication plans. Big budget program announcements (if you were doing a group travel program the budgets were almost obscene), monthly ... More About: Programs , Change , Behavior , Tech , Motivation
Advice Worth Taking ? 8 Non-Reward Things That Are Reward Things
2012-02-02 12:58:00 Ran across Barry Ritholtz?s post ?2011 Investment Mea Culpas? the other day (if you don?t read his blog, you should, go subscribe.) He deals with investment advice and each year he takes a look back and highlights what he did right and what he’s going to change in the future. His post has nothing to ... More About: Business , Advice , Worth , Things
Why Do We Love to Work at Companies Where We Don?t Have to Work?
2012-02-01 14:12:00 Employee engagement on the web and in business articles has almost reached parody status. I’m waiting for a Stephen Colbert character to emerge as the voice of engagement. (Folks planning next season’s shows – I get some of the credit if you do this!) Don’t get me wrong – I’m all for employee engagement. I ... More About: Business , Companies , Love , Human Resources , Change
Incentives May Not Trump Culture
2012-01-25 13:41:00 Why did your incentive program fail? Maybe because you focused the program on ?sacred values.? Company/corporate culture is a hot discussion these days. From @zappos (everyone take a drink) and Netflix ? every company wants to be the ?it? girl of corporate culture. Culture drives engagement they say. Much corporate treasure is spent to reward ... More About: Awards , Human Resources , Change , Recognition
FOT Webinar: Social Recruiting MacGyver Style! (How to Recruit via Facebook
2012-01-24 14:30:00 As you all know (or should!) I am FOT#3 at Fistful of Talent ? THE #1 HR focused multi-contributor blog on internet according to my non-scientific survey tool (I asked other contributors at FOT.) If you don?t read it you should. It?s a cornucopia of HR goodness ? irreverent and intelligent ? funny and ... More About: Social , Macgyver , Recruiting , Style , Facebook
When ?Mobile? Recognition Makes Sense
2012-01-23 14:27:00 Last week I posted that ?mobilizing? employee reward and recognition programs was a red herring. My thought process was that recognizing employees isn?t a function of ?location? but a function of effort on the part of managers. Many in the incentive industry are launching ?mobile? apps for their incentive and reward platforms selling it from ... More About: Mobile , Sense , Human Resources , Change , Motivation
Are Mobile Apps For Rewards and Recognition Red Herrings?
2012-01-18 13:34:00 Question for you all? Is having a mobile application for your rewards and recognition system important? Is it needed? Or is it simply a solution in search of a problem? Is it marketing bluster and me-too-ism? Is the development of apps and mobile tools to reward and recognize people really something the market needs and ... More About: Mobile , Games , Tech , Motivation , Employment
I Like You ? Here?s Some Money
2012-01-16 14:50:00 Peer to Peer programs (P2P) are pretty much a standard offering in employee reward and recognition programs today. If you?re not looking at P2P as a feature in your program ? got back and start over. P2P is a common and well-liked option within a company?s recognition strategy. For those under a rock ? P2P ... More About: Money , Awards , Human Resources , Motivation , Recognition
Negative Recognition? ?You Suck. Here?s Your Award.?
2012-01-12 14:30:00 Here?s a thought ? and it?s only a thought so don?t go nuts? Do we need to recognize bad behaviors in our organizations? Bob Sutton ? author of the Work Matters blog and the books, Good Boss, Bad Boss, The No Asshole Rule and one my favs? Hard Facts Dangerous Half-Truths & Total Nonsense wrote ... More About: Change , Behavior , Award , Recognition , Communications
Goal Setting ? @EvaRykr Nails It!
2012-01-09 14:45:00 Writing a post about goal setting would probably have made more sense before 2012 kicked off. But then again, if I had read @EvaRykr?s post before 2012 I?d have better goals myself. But it?s not too late. You can still rewrite your goals using some of the great info from Eva?s post from January ... More About: Business , Behavior , Motivation , Goal , Nails
Incentives Don?t Work If Behavior Isn?t Decision-Based
2012-01-06 15:20:00 Changing behavior is tough. As the New Year kicks off many of us have set goals and objectives for 2012 and are working hard to make them realities. Chances are we set up incentives for ourselves? save $100 and then treat yourself to a $20 gift. Or go to the gym 5 days in a ... More About: Change , Behavior , Work , Employment , Decision
Individual VS Collective Motivations
2012-01-04 14:24:00 A long intro to the main point?Align individual and team objectives to increase performance. Now the introduction stuff? I?ll start with a quote from a recent Freakonomics post on what motivates professional football players? “Today?s question on ?Football Freakonomics? is a tricky one. Which incentive is stronger for an NFL player: landing a big ... More About: Super Bowl , Change , Behavior , Individual , Recognition
What Stops You From Succeeding? Maybe it?s History.
2012-01-03 15:48:00 A favorite story I use in a ton of presentations is the Roger Bannister story. It?s an oldie but a goodie. For those in Rio Linda, Roger Bannister was the first person to run a sub 4-minute mile. The mythology goes that at the time he beat the record the prevailing wisdom was that ... More About: History , Change , Motivation , Stops , Communications
Assumptions Suck ? Top 10 Incentive Assumptions
2012-01-02 14:06:00 There is nothing as disappointing as waking up on New Year?s Day expecting to spend the day watching college football and then not being able to watch the games. I thought about the bowl games all day on Saturday. I planned my appetizer schedule and cleaned the dust off the big screen. I adjusted ... More About: Award , Cash , Suck
When To Use Recognition VS Incentives ? Advice for 2012
2011-12-30 14:57:00 No predictions here ? nothing to see ? move along. No recap of 2011 ? nothing to see ? move along. No top 10 lists (I know ? bad SEO karma.) Just the simplest and most important piece of information relating to incentives, rewards and recognition. After 20+ years doing this stuff, reading about ... More About: Business , Advice , Human Resources , Behavior , Recognition
Has The Incentive/Reward Industry Achieved Commodity Status?
2011-12-29 12:07:00 This post started as a screed on SaaS but morphed into a tome on the incentive industry. But it?s the end of the year and no one is reading these things so I thought it was as good a time as any to post it. Hang in there ? I think I have a ... More About: Industry , Status
The Suggestion Box ? RIP 1909 ? 2011
2011-12-27 15:27:00 The suggestion box. Iconic. Moronic. The Suggestion Box is the place ideas go to die. Like Bin Laden slipping over the side of an aircraft carrier, your well-worded, impassioned and well-argued idea for change in your organization falls into the blackness as the door closes behind it. Never.To.Be.Seen.Again. The Suggestion Box A tangible symbol your ... More About: Change , Recognition , Employee
Motivation and Recognition ?Lose Weight Trap?
2011-12-20 16:22:00 I think, in many companies motivation, recognition and engagement have fallen into the ?lose weight? trap. The lose weight trap is my new ground-breaking motivation theory (patent pending TM?d and all that.) The LWT (we need an acronym to be legit) is based on the idea that you can sell any solution to any problem ... More About: Business , Weight , Lose Weight , Motivation , Award
Inaugural Incentive Inquisition = #EPICFAIL
2011-12-18 21:57:00 Bueller, Bueller… That was me last week. I held a google+ hangout and no one showed. Now it didn’t take anything out of my day. In fact I had to remember to turn it off. As I explained in my previous posts (here, here) I’m going to do a google + hangout every Monday at ... More About: Change , Employee , Influence
Today?s Incentive Inquisition
2011-12-12 13:53:00 To paraphrase Andy Dufresne ? ?Either get busy experimenting or get busy dying.? And that is today?s motto. 4:00 PM ? EST the first ever ? and hopefully not the last ? Incentive Inquisition on google+ hangouts. Google Plus Hangouts Google Plus (or G+ or google+) is google?s answer to twitter, facebook, LinkedIn and your ... More About: Business , Awards , Consumer , Today , Recognition
On Selected Mondays on a WebCam Near You
2011-12-09 12:45:00 Except when it is announced a few days ahead of time. A few weeks ago I asked the group when would be the best time for a G+ hangout on incentives, rewards, influence, etc. The answer ? Mondays at 4:00 pm EST. So? Monday December 12th at 4:00 pm EST I will flip the switch ... More About: Human Resources , Tech , Webcam , Communications
When Was The Last Time You Recognized the CEO?
2011-12-05 13:12:00 We continue to do what we?re rewarded and recognized for doing. That is a pretty standard motivation/incentive axiom. It?s true for dogs, monkeys and employees. (Don?t jump up and down ? I?m not drawing any connection between the three ? they were just the first three things that came to mind ? of course there ... More About: Awards , Human Resources , Time , Motivation , Recognition
Fistful of Talent Podcast ? Just a Bit Better Sounding Than A Modem Connect
2011-12-01 21:22:00 FYI… For you Millenials ? computers used to use a modem and the phone lines to connect to the internet and they made a horrible noise when they converted all the analog info into bits and bytes ? Long-time readers will know I?ve been a member of the Fistful Of Talent team since its inception ... More About: Human Resources , Tech , Podcast , Modem , Award
Solve Human Problems With Human Solutions
2011-11-29 15:09:00 The problem with most incentive and reward programs today is that they attempt to solve a human problem though enabling technology. That?s just wrong-headed. Engagement and motivation are human problems. No technology in the world will solve them. Only human intervention will. Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the ... More About: Human Resources , Tech , Human , Motivation , Problems
Another Post About Employee Disengagement
2011-11-28 14:11:00 Yep. Or should I say yuuup? like Dave Hester on Storage Wars? This is another post about how employees are disengaged and I?ll even go out on a limb and say they are going to continue to be disengaged. You will lose thousands upon thousands of employees to disengagement over the next 10, 12, 18 ... More About: Business , Human Resources , Change , Post , Employment
Thanksgiving ? Time to Tell The Stories
More articles from this author:2011-11-23 15:13:00 Pondering what to post today brought me back to my Thanksgiving post I did in 2008. That was a very tough year and the post I did was both professional and personal. After reading it and thinking about what to say today, the day before Thanksgiving 2011 – I really didn’t think I could add ... More About: Holidays , Business , Stories , Time 1, 2, 3 |
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