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Want to See Greater Employee Motivation and Accountability? Reverse “Learned Helplessness”

In 1967, psychologist Martin Seligman and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania began a series of experiments subjecting three groups of dogs to a series of shocks. Dogs in Group 1 were simply placed in an experimental area and released without... Read >

Creating an Effective Incentive Program For Software Programmers

Employee incentive programs are powerful tools for improving performance and getting that extra push from your team of employees. Why else would they have been around in one form or another for as long as organized labor itself. However, the main thing to... Read >

The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less

Written by Barry Schwartz Why is it that with more choices in products and lifestyle than at any point in history the rate of clinical depression has triple over the past two generations? In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz explores how the seemi... Read >

Incenting the right behavior can be a matter of life and death!

I am a firm believer that employee incentive programs are key to optimizing a workforce’s goal based performance, but an employee incentive program that has not been thought through can be worse than none at all. In other words, you have to make sure you ... Read >

Make Sure Your Employee Incentive Program Inspires Excellence

A good staff incentive program inspires employees to give a little extra. A strong incentive program promotes excellence throughout the organization. One of the key differentiators between these two types of employee incentive programs is the ease at whic... Read >

Don't Fix Your Broken Incentive Program

Incentive and recognition programs are fairly prevalent in the workforce today, as well they should be, they have been used to improve the quantity and quality of work pretty much since the early days of organized labor. As with anything, you have a c... Read >

Is There a Simple Path to Employee Motivation?

Communication is a skill we begin to learn long before we ever enter kindergarten. For many of us it is a skill we continue to develop throughout our professional and personal lives. We practice communication daily with friends, family, and coworkers. ... Read >