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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Thanksgiving ? Time to Tell The Stories
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 ...
Isn?t It Pretty?
2011-11-10 13:01:00 “It?s a mobile-enabled, social cloud-based SaaS system that will drive employee and channel engagement to levels not seen since the Roman Empire.” I know. You gotta have it right? But none of that matters. You can?t swing a cat without hitting a mobile-enabled recognition system. Or one that runs on the cloud or one ...
Rewarding White Space Activities
2011-11-07 13:51:00 Think about your organization chart. Little boxes each linking to other little boxes. Inside each box are specific activities. Inside the Accounting box debits and credits get processed. Invoices are drawn up. Bills are collected. Inside the Marketing box strategies are formed. HTML emails are designed and each. individual. word. is parsed and debated as ...
Annual Incentive Programs Are Bad
2011-11-03 13:18:00 I was reminded by a post from Dr. Bret Simmons the other day that seeing meaningful progress is one of the most important things for maintaining engagement with employees. That made me thing of the ?typical? sales incentive program. The Dilbert Program Many incentive programs, especially for sales organizations, are designed to reward performance at ...
How Evil Are You?
2011-10-31 13:54:00 Appropriate Halloween post? Would you hurt someone just because someone in authority told you to? If you said no ? I?m guessing there?s a 70% chance you?re wrong. That?s roughly the result from an updated version of the Milgram Experiment that aired last night on the Discovery Channel for the show Curiosity. For those not ...
What the Girl Scouts Can Teach You About Innovation
2011-10-27 16:10:00 The Girls Scouts will be 100 years old in March 2012. Their mission is: ??to empower girls and to help teach values such as honesty, fairness, courage, compassion, character, sisterhood, confidence, and citizenship through activities including camping, community service, learning first aid, and earning badges by acquiring other practical skills. Girl Scouts’ achievements are recognized ...
When Recognition Goes Bad
2011-10-25 13:32:00 Highlighting top performers is great. We all love getting the notoriety and the praise. It?s a great way for companies to reinforce their message, their mission, and their values. But, like anything else ? it?s a double-edged sword. But you don?t need to tell that to the folks in La Palma California. I?m sure, like ...
New Book from I2I ? Manager?s Guide to Managing
2011-10-19 13:51:00 I wrote it myself. Hat Tip to Ron Swanson. Email/RSS subscribers click through for video.
Incentive Programs Are Your Worst First Option
2011-10-17 14:11:00 You?d think the title of this post would be the last thing you?re read on a site that focuses on how to design incentives correctly. You?d think I?d spend my time telling you about how incentives are great, how they can cure poverty and how they are better than the iPhone 4S. But I can?t. ...
Free Recognition Workshop ? Learning Should Be Your Main Job Function
2011-10-13 12:49:00 Say the next sentence like the Dos Equis guy — I don?t recommend companies for a fee. Our company works with clients helping them design incentive and reward strategies. We also work directly with incentive and recognition companies to help find new ideas and market better. We don?t get paid a referral fee or a ...
My Warning About New Incentive Research Foundation Study
2011-10-10 12:49:00 The Incentive Research Foundation released a new survey/study about the use of incentives. Most of the data is pretty self explanatory. A ton of practitioners and clients will be using this information to help them design and launch incentive programs. A brief whitepaper can be had here and a full download of the survey is available ...
Incentives That Shouldn?t Work
2011-10-04 13:48:00 Two articles on incentive programs for students caught my eye this week. I?m always on the lookout for classroom-based incentives because a lot of research has been done on the impact of incentives on students and how they can diminish natural curiosity and dampen internal/intrinsic desires to learn and participate in learning activities. Alfie Kohn ...
Workers To Lose More Employee Benefits: Illinois Worker's Compensation
2011-01-06 07:38:00 The Illinois State Legislative is in session working on a new Bill that would take away the rights and benefits for an injured worker. If passed, it would greatly reduce the ability for an injured worker in Illinois to collect worker's compensation, by instituting rules that only benefit the insurance companies. Again, our policy makers are cutting deals with one another as they posture to make sure their image is protected. The reason that a new bill for worker's compensation is even being considered has nothing to do with costs, since insurance companies currently pay a tax that largely supports the Illinois Industrial Commission, where cases are tried. Instead, it is being used as a "political football" by the Democrats...
Hate being an employee? Start a record label.
2010-11-04 16:39:00 Anand Bhatt was not cut out to be an employee. If you are in a prestigious job that makes your family proud, but you hate what you are doing and have a dream to do something else, you need to read Anand's story and take comfort....Anand had a great job as an analyst in a branch of Forrester Research. But he was unhappy. He explains, "Working for someone else was not cutting it for me. It was not what I wanted to do. I just wasn't feeling it, even though it paid well, made my parents proud, and gave me the American Dream."He simply didn't click with many aspects of corporate life. For instance, his boss grew a goatee, and...
Public employee unions funnel public money to Democrats
2010-10-29 22:20:00 From the Washington Examiner:Who is the largest single political contributor in the 2010 campaign cycle? You can be pardoned if you answer, erroneously, that it's some new conservative group organized by Karl Rove. That's campaign spin by the Obama Democrats, obediently relayed by certain elements of the so-called mainstream mediaThe real answer is AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The union's president, Gerald McEntee, reports proudly that AFSCME will be contributing $87.5 million in this cycle, entirely or almost entirely to Democrats. "We're spending big," he told the Wall Street Journal. "And we're damn happy it's big."And much of that money is sucked out of union dues which must be paid by public employee workers. (Yes,...
Former BofA Employee Speaks-Out About Robo-Signing Scandal
2010-10-29 19:00:00 Tam Doan used to be an employee with Bank of America. He was a part of the bank’s Southern California’s pre-sale foreclosure department. His job, he stated, was not to actually read the paperwork that he was signing. Doan also admitted that sometimes he had no clue what documents he was signing-off ...Looking Foreclosures? ForeclosureListings.com has a comprehensive, searchable database of foreclosures in California, Florida, Texas, Michigan and all US States. Try to search foreclosures by state today! Former BofA Employee Speaks-Out About Robo-Signing Scandal
About that Public Employee Spending Spree on behalf of California Democrats
2010-10-28 21:47:00 For the better part of the day, Yahoo!’s home page has featured this as one of its top news stories, “In Calif., GOP candidate on record spending spree“. In the article, we read that former Democratic Governor Jerry Brown has been outspent “outspent 6-1 through mid-October” by his Republican rival Meg Whitman. At the end ...
By: GayPatriot
Plenty Of Perks For A Robo-Signing Employee
2010-10-19 09:01:00 My parents told me as I was growing up that I would need a college education in order to get ahead in the world. Mom and Dad were wrong. According to Tampa Bay Online, some robo-signers could make a lot in money and perks, and all they had to be able to do was sign ...
By: HousingDoom
Employee of Animal Care and Control: We Were NEVER This Full
2010-09-02 14:33:00 Steve Dale prints an email from an employee of Chicago Animal Care and Control that expresses concern about the way the facility is currently being operated, and suggests the building is over-filled with too many animals.
The Arrogance of The Public Employee Union Member
2010-08-31 19:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston In a recent story detailing the efforts of 3,000 postal employee union members marching against USPS management in Detroit, one quote by a union member stuck me as wholly emblematic of the arrogance of government employee union members and it shows the disconnect between the real world and the cushy world of government workers. As the 3,000 postal workers marched against proposed cuts in the U.S. Post office, tucked at the bottom of the Detroit Free Press piece was a quote by post office employee Kim Sauceda, of Tallevast, Florida....
$400 K For State Employee That Never Showed for Work For 12 Years
2010-08-29 19:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston CNN reports that an employee contracted with the state of Virginia for 12 years seems to have never actually done any work for the agency she was attached to, Norfolk officials say. This employee was discovered by the new director of the Norfolk Community Services Board who was looking through the office's records finding the no-show job. Once the new director found this freeloader she was terminated and charges may be filed over the more than $400,000 she was paid for her "work" these last 12 years....
Neighborhood Fail: Man arrested for threatening CVS employee
2010-07-12 22:00:00 The police get the report first; RedEye is not far behind. MAN ARRESTED FOR THREATENING CVS EMPLOYEE July 5, 11 p.m. Police arrested a man for shoplifting a bottle of tequila and possession of marijuana in the back alley of the CVS pharmacy at Halsted and Clark Streets. An employee reported the 34-year-old man threatened him with a knife after he set off shoplifting sensors. GET MORE REPORTS FROM THE WEEK AFTER THE JUMP ... ...
Neighborhood Fail: Man arrested for threatening CVS employee
2010-07-12 22:00:00 The police get the report first; RedEye is not far behind. MAN ARRESTED FOR THREATENING CVS EMPLOYEE July 5, 11 p.m. Police arrested a man for shoplifting a bottle of tequila and possession of marijuana in the back alley of the CVS pharmacy at Halsted and Clark Streets. An employee reported the 34-year-old man threatened him with a knife after he set off shoplifting sensors. GET MORE REPORTS FROM THE WEEK AFTER THE JUMP ... ...
Employee Evaluation: Nikki Lynette
2010-07-04 15:00:00 I'm not really a person who does impersonations of other people, but in this case i had to steal my favorite Vlogger's identity so that I could make a point. Imitation is the highest form of flattery. So I'm sure he won't be offended by a LITTE BIT of identity theft. Right?
Important HUBZone Employee Definition Change
2010-05-19 20:12:00 By: Lane F. Kelman On May 3, 2010, the SBA's definition of the term "employee" of a Historically Underutilized Business Zone ("HUBZone") was amended. The new definition establishes a more definitive but stringent reading of when a person is considered an employee for HUBZone eligibility purposes. (See the SBA's HUBZone regulations). The construction industry in particular will be impacted. The amended definition states: Employee means all individuals employed on a full-time, part-time, or other basis, so long as that individual works a minimum of 40 hours per month. This includes employees obtained from a temporary employee agency, leasing concern, or through a union agreement or co-employed pursuant to a professional employer organization agreement. SBA will consider the totality of the circumstances, including criteria used by the IRS for Federal income tax purposes and those set forth in SBA's Size Policy Statement No. 1, in determining whether individuals ...
Lawsuit: Burger King employee spit in my Whopper!
2010-03-31 23:27:00 Read more here: Burger King employee spit on my Whopper! Follow me on Twitter @jenfernicola....
Woman says Wal-Mart employee threw box in her direction, caused fall
2010-03-17 20:29:00 A woman is suing Wal-Mart for injuries she says she sustained after an empty box was thrown in the aisle she was in and caused her to fall. Rebecca Alter says that on April 16, 2009, while shopping at the Wal-Mart in Hodgkins, she was discussing the purchase of a hunting/fishing license in the Sporting Goods department with Wal-Mart sales associate defendant Rebecca Snyder when the following occurred: - Snyder asked Alter to come around the counter into the aisle and she did so. - Defendant Susan Sherrie was stocking merchandise in the adjacent aisle. - As Alter was walking into the aisle adjacent to the counter, Sherrie threw a box she had just emptied of merchandise down the aisle and...
Pet service says former employee used Craigslist, Yelp to defame it
2010-02-02 23:19:00 A pet care service company says a former employee used Craigslist and Yelp to post defamatory ads and reviews about it. Urban Out Sitters says that in August 2009 it hired defendant Christopher Pesch and he signed their Employment Agreement, which contains a non-disparagement clause, but he was terminated shortly thereafter. The complaint states that Pesch then willfully and maliciously posted defamatory classifieds on Craigslist and reviews on Yelp "insinuating that Plaintiff 'beat and hit dogs' and that Plaintiff's past clients 'had experiences that traumatized their pets'". The complaint also states that Pesch contacted Urban Out Sitters' clients with the intent to cause them to abandon Urban Out Sitters and that the plaintiff has lost current and prospective clients. Urban Out Sitters asserts claims for...
Police Investigating Whether Shoplifters Involved In Walmart Employee Death
2010-01-03 20:45:00 Police in Albuquerque, NM, are investigating whether two suspected shoplifters had anything to do with the death of a Walmart employee on Saturday, January 2nd. The as yet unidentified ?Crime ...
By: The Bunker Blog
Former B of A employee pleads guilty to providing false VOD's
2009-12-10 06:04:00 A former Bank of America employee was convicted of wire fraud today in federal court for creating false documents to secure approval of mortgage loan applications. United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Boston Field Division; and Susan Dukes, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation - Boston Field Office, announced today that CLARISTA BRAMBLE, age 59, of Randolph, MA, pled guilty before Senior U.S. District Judge Joseph L. Tauro to an Information charging her with nine counts of wire fraud. At today’s plea hearing, the prosecutor told the Court that had the case proceeded to trial the Government’s evidence would have proven that during the time BRAMBLE was a bank employee from December 2006 to July 2007, she created false bank documents reporting fictitious balances for accounts in the names of people applying for loans from mortgage lending compani...
Soft Skills Make the Employee
2009-09-18 14:47:00 Today, employers have a long list of potential employees who have the skills and the knowledge to do the job. What differentiates a potential employee from a new hire is soft skills — leadership qualities, writing proficiency, and the ability to get along with others. While job skills are esse
Are You Really a Permanent Employee?
2009-09-01 14:20:00 This is a guest post by Kevin, who writes a get out of debt blog at No Debt Plan. He wants to help you get and stay out of debt. This is the third post in a series on unemployment and your finances. In my first article I challenged your thinking on turning down job offers ... Related Articles:Things to Consider When Leaving Your JobGet It In WritingWhat is Your Financial Fallback Plan?
By: Cash Money Life
Former employee suspects Nabisco bakery of asbestos problem
2009-07-21 05:37:00 So I usually don't cover asbestos litigation suits, mainly because there are so many of them, but when I read this petition for discovery, I had to wonder if this one was a bigger deal than the others.It's filed against Kraft Foods by a man who worked for nine years in a Nabisco bakery, alleging that he was exposed to asbestos there and developed a serious medical condition as a result. Asbestos, in a bakery. Yum. Nothing beats an Oreo, except maybe an Oreo with asbestos fibers in it....
CTA rider offers employee recognition plan
2009-07-20 22:00:00 Kirk Owens, 35, of Printer's Row wrote to "Going Public" with suggestions on how to recognize CTA employees for a job well done. Have a suggestion for a recognition plan? Submit in comments below."As an avid rider of ALL modes of public transit, I hope for the best possible service yet understand there will be costs, delays and construction which impede my travels.I believe the system, the service, the governing body as well as all involved operators should bear the burden of ill-performing operations and likewise reap the rewards of a job well done.To that end, I sent the attached letter to the Chairperson of the CTA, shortly after the RedEye ran a piece on its new president, outlining a... |
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