If you give someone a bonus for doing great work, are you actually making them better at their job or just better at chasing bonuses?
Your company uses performance-based incentives. How confident are you that they are producing the results you actually want?
There is a point where paying people more stops improving their performance and can even make things worse. Do you know where that point is?
Think about the tasks on your team that require real creative thinking. Are the motivational strategies you use designed for those tasks, or for a completely different type of work?
What if the way most companies motivate employees is scientifically backwards for a significant portion of what those employees actually do?
For our Watch & Talk sessions, this video sparks discussion around motivation strategies, reward and performance, leadership, workplace psychology, and team management.
Ready to unpack what the research actually says, and say it confidently in English?
Watch the video here (but it’s always more interesting to talk about it 😉):
