What is Paul Thinking

OCTOBER 12, 2017

For now, click over to the main site for a little “motivation mathematics” where I talk about the formula that everyone should use before designing their incentive and reward program. Trust me – it will save you a ton of money and many, many headaches! Click over!

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Xoxoday

APRIL 3, 2024

Digital rewards offer a powerful tool to achieve this, boosting conversions at every stage of the sales funnel. A staggering 71% of consumers yearn for personalized experiences, and tailored rewards effectively bridge the gap between initial awareness and brand advocacy. Who doesn't love surprises?

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What is Paul Thinking

OCTOBER 17, 2017

New post on the new site: I get frustrated sometimes when I read articles, posts and even books about incentives, rewards, recognition and other topics related to designing and delivering great influence programs. Mostly because I continue to see bad advice being doled out over and over again. “How else can you prove and ROI?

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What is Paul Thinking

JANUARY 6, 2017

It’s a question we’re asking related to our newest whitepaper “Unleash an Epic Incentive Program: Leveraging the Power of Game Design.” For each of these elements our whitepaper shows how they manifest in an incentive/reward program. It’s Not Magic – It’s Science. Hope you find it valuable.

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Homebase

JANUARY 5, 2024

Employee motivation is something you, as an employer, can positively influence with a wide range of motivational incentives. Extrinsically motivated individuals are motivated by rewards, recognition, prizes, bonuses, and even deadlines. Incentive programs increase employee motivation, engagement, and productivity.

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What is Paul Thinking

JUNE 6, 2016

But reading the post also reminded me that the nuances of employee recognition, engagement and incentives are lost on many that don’t do this stuff regularly. Recognition, reward, incentive, appreciation – are words that are used interchangeably. Its value as an incentive decreases with repetition.”.

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What is Paul Thinking

JULY 25, 2017

As I indicated in the intro post it is painful for me to watch incentive and recognition programs discussed (poorly) online by self-declared experts in program design. But there are those that believe their adjacency to a reward program confirms guru status on them. And it’s not just the “reward” part of the program.

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What is Paul Thinking

JULY 14, 2016

Incentive programs are sometimes more art than science. The contradiction starts with the “incentives destroy intrinsic motivation” camp – which can happen if you focus on rewarding already intrinsically motivated behaviors (why would you do that anyway?). And for the record – designing incentives isn’t easy.

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Kazoo

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

So the question is why haven’t you started an employee reward program yet? Rack up bonus reward points as you collect personal bests. Participate in an individual wellness activity with 10 or more minutes of strenuous activity and reap the physical, mental, emotional, and Kazoo-induced behavioral bonus reward points. Be the CEO!

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Thrive Global

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It might be a difficult job but there is no career more rewarding in my mind. you are heavily rewarded!! 2) I’d like to see towns provide more incentives to new small businesses. He or she might just see this, especially if we tag them. One of our recruiters even drove her to her interviews. If you do the right work?—?you

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What is Paul Thinking

JANUARY 4, 2017

There are a million things to consider when designing an effective incentive program. And finally, you want to create an emotional connection to the program and the rewards involved. I call it the “ACE” Incentive Design Model © (copyright, trademarked, marky-marked). But at a very high level you want to do three things….

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Kazoo

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Zuora ‘s use the Kazoo feature allowing employee appreciation to be tagged with company core values has helped fill an appreciation gap at the company while revealing to employees that their day-to-day work helps define the organization as a whole.

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What is Paul Thinking

JUNE 22, 2016

Incentive for Reducing Travel Costs. This company was using the article as a way to communicate to potential clients that using points-based incentives are the way to reduce travel costs. Incentive Company: “Great, we’ll give people points for saving the company money. Why do you need an incentive for a policy?”.

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What is Paul Thinking

MAY 31, 2016

Unofficially it means I’ll be designing client incentive and engagement programs and helping “level up” the recommendations to our clients. The global programs and experiences Creative Group puts together focus both on customer goals AND on rewarding and inspiring people to reach their full potential. And that is what I love to do.

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What is Paul Thinking

OCTOBER 26, 2016

That’s a good use of external incentives. Unfortunately, many managers overuse external rewards and have created a negative opinion of them. The fact is – well-designed extrinsic reward program works extremely well. As an employee you want to hit your numbers (external) and be rewarded. Introduce People to Their Results.

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What is Paul Thinking

JANUARY 9, 2017

Incentives and rewards influence behavior. Here’s the list of words from an image on the original post : Filed under: Blog Posts , Change , Communication , General Business , Psychology Tagged: Change , communication , Featured , motivation , paul hebert , psychology. Recognition influences behavior. Rational vs. Emotional.

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Xoxoday

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

  Their marketing team spread the word about this campaign on social media with short videos and tagged essential people. Start a rewards campaign ABM aims to reach a specialized audience, closing a deal with them. Easily manage your marketing campaigns with rewards—no developer needed. 

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What is Paul Thinking

MARCH 15, 2016

I think it’s because I’ve been writing for almost 10 years about engagement, rewards, incentives, recognition and just about anything connected to influencing behavior in an organization. Filed under: Advice , Podcasts Tagged: Advice , career , Charlie Judy , Featured , jobs , podcast.

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What is Paul Thinking

JANUARY 2, 2017

Going forward I’ll probably focus a bit more on overall incentives and rewards for sales, dealers, distributors, independent sellers of products, VARs as well as consumer, employee and distributor loyalty programs. I’m cleaning up the blogosphere around incentives, recognition and rewards one post at a time. They do work.

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Empuls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

An employee recognition software comes as a helping hand for employees who should be rewarded for their loyalty and hard work in an organization. With the help of Empuls, HR teams can prioritize rewards and recognition in the form of reward points and gift cards. Automates gifts and rewards for various occasions.

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Empuls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The operative word here is ‘creatively’ 🎁 According to a Survey : ➼ 38% of employees want to receive rewards in exchange for good work. ➼ 47% of employees want to receive a personalized reward spontaneously. It’s time to look at rewards in a fresh new light.

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6Q

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Thankfully, TMCs have safety features like safe hotel tagging, as well as travel support that works around the clock. Recognition and rewards Another key method to optimize corporate travel is through recognition and rewards. Interestingly enough, travel is considered one of the top rewards these days.

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Work Points Play

MARCH 14, 2023

Yes, but it’s a human response to cash as a reward. Employee recognition myth #2: Employees need to hit targets to get rewarded. Some companies still run recognition programs like they are sales incentives, rewarding the person with the most recognition tags.

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PSB

JULY 22, 2022

These provide an excellent incentive for learners to explore your LMS further because they allow them to reach career milestones, demonstrate mastery of a skill, and track their progress. Using an intelligent taxonomy to organize information, remove out-of-date material, and accurately tag content. Offer eLearning Engagement Rewards.

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Visier

MARCH 19, 2018

Intuition — a mental “shortcut” — is the result of two hardwired processes ( pattern recognition and emotional tagging ), which frequently lead to cognitive errors. Without analytics to back up these decisions , it’s impossible to tell if an employee is being rewarded fairly. Is she rewarded fairly compared to these people?

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EmployeeConnect

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

When you walk into your favourite store, to find the item you’re looking for has a ‘clearance’ or ‘reduced’ tag, you raise your eyebrows, smile a bit and shine up so bright you could light a room. If there’s anything that anyone enjoys, it’s saving money. I’ll put it into perspective for you.

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Compensation Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Here are three tips you can use any time during the year, but most of all during merit increase and incentive award periods. The unique values and cultural norms that, as a result of your organization's business direction, influence how employees are rewarded. Get yourself a champion (or champions).

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What is Paul Thinking

OCTOBER 21, 2016

That’s why for most of my career I’ve tried to help clients find ways to reward and recognize those things that won’t change much (or shouldn’t) and reinforce those behaviors. Jeff Bezos’ idea on the other hand is very, very smart. And as an HR person, worrying about what will be new and different in 5 years is similarly risky. Trust Bezos.

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Xoxoday

JANUARY 31, 2024

Personalized mementos : Offering personalized mementos such as custom name tags, engraved keychains, or monogrammed notebooks can instantly make attendees feel valued and acknowledged Subscription boxes: Sponsor tester gift boxe s: Partner with sponsors to curate boxes with branded samples and treats.

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Madison

APRIL 4, 2017

In any case, the price tag for sales training can quickly exceed millions of dollars per year. That’s where a properly designed sales incentive program can strengthen results. That’s exactly how smart incentive planners are supporting their training investments. They are reinforcing what’s been learned through reward structures.

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Empuls

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Fun "Fire-cracker" tags for team members Create an entertaining session where team members can vote and assign unique "fire-cracker" name tags to each other. Consider awarding e-gift cards or online rewards to the winning participants to keep the competitive spirit alive.

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What is Paul Thinking

MAY 16, 2017

Keeping the reward and recognition outside compensation communicates a different, more emotional and less transactional, relationship between the work and the employee. Your goal throughout the process is to establish that “special projects” is how the company and the individual grows while providing better outcomes for all.

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Thrive Global

APRIL 5, 2021

People will pay attention from the beginning because there is something to look at instead of generic digital name tags. Use Games and Simple Rewards to Hold Attention. A simple prize like a coffee house gift card or similar can be low cost and a low-cost incentive to keep people involved and watching the screen.

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What is Paul Thinking

APRIL 11, 2016

I’ve been working in the incentive, reward and recognition industry for more years than are polite to talk about in public. Filed under: Analytics , Blog Posts , Engagement , Human Resources , Management , Research Tagged: data , Engagement , evidence , Featured , HR , research.

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Limeade

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

USAA provides attractive incentives for participation like USAA swag and medical premium discounts. They even added a stretch incentive (a gym bag or branded water bottle) for those who reached above the top incentive level. But they know that intrinsic rewards like team unity can go even further.

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Limeade

MAY 15, 2017

Schwartz shared the science behind intrinsic motivation that shed new light on how we should all think about incentives in the workplace. Intrinsic motivation is when a person engages in an activity because it is personally rewarding (such as joining a weight loss program to have more energy for your kids).

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Thrive Global

AUGUST 25, 2022

In 2022 Nike offered a week off incentive for employees for mental health. One innovated way to make that even more incentivized is to reward employees for using these types of benefits. In 2022 Nike offered a week off incentive for employees for mental health. He, she, or they might just see this if we tag them.

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