thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JUNE 14, 2023

The better you’re able to clearly communicate your team’s accountabilities and the corresponding incentives, the more likely you are to drive the behaviors that you want. Incentives are a very powerful way for doing so. Leaders can create incentives for people who over-deliver on their accountabilities.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 8, 2024

Lines of responsibility can be fuzzy, and your priorities or incentives might clash with your coworkers’ goals. This may require creative thinking and flexibility, especially in a matrixed organization where priorities and incentives clash. If you’re in a matrixed organization, it gets more complicated. That’s a conflict cocktail.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 23, 2014

She’d brought in extra training, introduced a clever incentive program, stack ranked and managed the outliers, implemented every best practice she could find, and even invited her boss in for a quick motivational talk. Shelly’s Story. Shelly (not her real name) was completely frustrated with her team’s call center results.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2021

Systems and incentives were created to meet a certain target of average impressions per hour. It was vital to monitor – and incent – both impressions per hour AND adherence to the customer’s color palette. Every job was easy to monitor with the dashboard metrics.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 5, 2020

Align incentives. There’s a natural incentive alignment that is ubiquitous across compensation packages. Still, there are ways to align incentives further. Across markets, incentive-based compensation tends to increase as the scope of responsibility increases. Coming into a company in hypergrowth?

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2023

You incentivize, and when that doesn’t work, you add more carrots (rewards, incentives, bribes). When you assume people aren’t motivated, you tend to fall back to strategies proven ineffective, wrongheaded, or even counter to what you intended.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Provides the right work environment and incentives to allow the team to thrive. In other words, a more human leader: Is concerned and interested in the welfare of the team. Looks after and attends to the professional needs and growth of the team. Gives the proper attention to doing tasks in a way that will avoid damage or risk.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Rewards can range from verbal praise and certificates to bonuses and other incentives. Acknowledge employees’ hard work and accomplishments through formal and informal recognition programs. Celebrate milestones, whether they’re individual achievements or team successes.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

It’s usually the result of an incentive or reward combined with a person who sees no way to achieve the outcome without cheating a little. Take this common excuse as an example: “C’mon, everyone does it — it’s the only way to get ahead here.” This slow spread of unethical behavior is called ethical fading.

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Leading Blog

JULY 8, 2024

Poorly thought-out performance goals and incentives can do just that. That said, we should ensure that the culture we are responsible for does not place people in a situation that encourages them to compromise.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

The widespread presence of soda, along with visual cues, product placement, and financial incentive (at the time, a soda cost less than the same size bottle of water) were all contributing to a culture of unhealthy nutrition and making it easier for our workforce to accept that drinking soda was the norm. It was served at our meetings.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

They may have significant incentive to do so — they may be close to breaking a personal record or they may believe that their chance to increase their scoring statistics will make them more marketable as a player. In ice hockey, for example, players have a decision to make when the puck is passed to them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 26, 2017

When results are less than optimal, there are leaders who jump in and make changes to team structure, process, and incentives to stimulate increased (and immediate) success. Also, when you dictate the details, you miss out on creativity and alternative paths and solutions. Treating the team like Tinker Toys™ .

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

A well-chosen dean fosters greater faculty satisfaction by aligning faculty incentives with institutional priorities and supporting career advancement. At the same time, a strong leader proactively addresses challenges such as workload balance, access to cutting-edge labs and equipment, and opportunities for entrepreneurial pursuits.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

People need feedback to grow and incentives to feel recognized. Smart and dedicated people help bring strategies to life. Executing strategies skillfully begins with recruiting, developing, and retaining high-performing talent. Focusing on Results. The experience of achieving short-term results motivates teams to strive for even more.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 6, 2017

Mary Ila Ward of Horizon Point Consulting contributed The Conundrum of Incentive Pay. She recaps, “Incentive compensation is tough. Leaders often find themselves coming up with incentive plans they hope will work, only to come out with frustrating results and the intent didn’t drive the desired outcome.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2019

This is a clear financial incentive for leaders to take Employee Engagement and empowerment seriously. In short, I am firmly of the opinion that engaged employees are a pre-requisite for building high performance teams within an organization. Amongst the top performing companies, in any survey, 60% to 70% of employees are engaged at work.

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Rich Gee Group

JUNE 10, 2024

Let’s explore the detrimental effects of viewing employees as costs and how a shift in management and reporting can realign incentives to foster a more skilled, motivated, and efficient workforce. Companies should include metrics reflecting employee development, engagement, and retention to realign incentives.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Differentiating factors like alignment to one’s purpose, culture, leadership coaching, peer support, upward mobility, living allowances, and long-term incentives such as equity, and deferred compensation can be useful levers in architecting a dynamic compensation package that is hard to refuse.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Giving autonomy The researchers also looked at whether incentive pay can help to ensure employees work with AI in the right way. The results suggest that combining early autonomy with incentive pay can indeed help employees learn and become smarter in their work.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Give a financial incentive: To encourage employees to do their best, consider offering financial incentives. Offer extra time off: Although most employees value financial incentives, many also appreciate intangible rewards like additional time off. You can start small by offering gift cards to local stores or coffee shops.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2014

To do this successfully, training, frequent communication, compensation incentives, and more elements may be required. Cost Of Cultural Changes. With new or existing leaders, the organizational culture may need to shift and renew itself. There is a cost to the system changes along with the personnel adjustments. Cost Of New Habits.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 2, 2014

Have mascots to support metric goals & incentive programs (if you can’t smile when a bunny rattles off contest rules, you just can’t smile). Devise a game (we did “Cable TV Jeopardy” once, and it was a bit hit). Recite Shakespeare (I wish I had tried that myself).

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

This trend is evident in the increasing use of performance-based incentives in executive compensation packages, which tie a significant portion of executive pay to specific, measurable goals. Companies are increasingly focusing on agility and adaptability, seeking leaders who can navigate rapidly changing business environments.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2021

This is how “coincidentally” new ideas and products emerge, as people have an incentive to “connect the dots” for each other. Crucially, members from outside the team are invited to pay their respects but also an opportunity for different questions or insights on the project to be brought up. Accelerating Unexpected Interactions.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 20, 2023

Disengagement can happen when leaders do not regularly acknowledge and appreciate the efforts and accomplishments of employees, and do not provide rewards and incentives to motivate and inspire them. Overall, all these common mistakes can be avoided by leaders who are aware of them, and who take steps to avoid them.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 23, 2017

As an example, I remember being in a restaurant in Italy several years ago when a waiter introduced me to an incentive wheel that they spun any time a customer would give them a compliment in front of the restaurant’s manager. If we hit certain customer satisfaction goals across our company each month we spin a wheel of incentives.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 28, 2024

A range of incentives The study tested various incentives for motivating expert participation, such as social impact, public recognition, and matching expert skills with specific Wikipedia articles. Interestingly, incentives like social impact and public recognition did not affect response rates, the researchers found.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

If you provide incentives to cooperate, employees will share information and train others, but if you pit people against one another, they will naturally think only of themselves. “Frame the work as a learning problem, not as an execution problem,” and “introduce a clear sense of uncertainty into the room.”.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 13, 2022

Offer Incentives. Offering incentives to your staff could be a great way to increase productivity within the workplace. This point goes alongside setting goals for your staff because you could introduce some incentives to those people who reach their goals. Encourage Breaks.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 10, 2021

A cash incentive (or rather a disincentive) can be very effective. It can backfire if players feel the game is being imposed on them.”. When we feel like putting off the change, a commitment device can be just the thing to overcome procrastination.

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Rich Gee Group

JUNE 30, 2023

While competitive salaries and benefits packages may attract employees initially, creating a thriving and engaged workforce takes more than monetary incentives. The decision to leave a job is rarely superficial or hasty; it is often rooted in deeper factors that can profoundly impact an individual's professional and personal life.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

What could also work, is to keep real innovation at arm’s length, to be managed by the innovators with enough incentive in the game to make it successful. What could work however, is to make sure the management team is diverse, such that new ventures are included in strategy and visioning.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The researchers focused on the way incentive plans can change how we connect with others, with a particular focus on those that weakly link short-term and individual contributions to those that tightly link them. They focused on co-innovator networks, as both firms deploy performance-based incentive plans.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 4, 2023

6191 may address these issues by capping executive pay in a way that aims to realign the incentives of corporate leaders with the wellbeing of their companies and employees. Here’s how it could improve leadership behaviors: Realigning Incentives: By capping CEO pay, H.R.6191 In conclusion, H.R.6191

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2025

In response, organizations are introducing ESG-driven benefits such as: Sustainable commuting incentives , including subsidies for electric vehicles or public transport. Preventive care incentives , rewarding employees for healthy behaviors like regular exercise, balanced diets, and routine check-ups.

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