Dana Brownlee has a great article on Forbes titled Peer Recognition: An Employee Engagement Secret Weapon. It’s an excellent read. Peer recognition is what we would call an intrinsic reward. For a great primer on intrinsic and extrinsic rewards, check out Fast Company’s article The Only Type Of Motivation That Leads To Success by Tom Rath. His argument is profound. …
What Gets Recognized Gets Improved
Decades ago Peter Drucker coined the much-used phrase “What gets measured gets improved.” In a recent conversation with Eli, CEO of Snowfly, he was talking about how things that you recognize get improved… which is where the title of this post comes from. A little play on Drucker’s phrase, and pushing the work from analytics and tracking to a recognition …
The Incentive You Can’t Count On…
Incentive programs should be designed to achieve a company’s objectives, reward the participant and get the most from the program budget. Research shows that variable rewards drive greater program engagement, increase motivation, and improve emotional response to being rewarded. Every incentive program should be specific and individual to your company. Your culture, your history, your product, your market and your services all play an important role in how you design your incentive program.
Building (and Maintaining) a Championship Team
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Sailing by Ash Breeze
In order to become a commissioned Naval Officer upon graduation from college, I was required to take courses in maritime navigation and naval history. Nathaniel Bowditch was a name I was familiar with because he is considered to be the father of American maritime navigation. Being a Navy man, his book, The American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, is one …
Why is your company called “Snowfly”?
Fly fishing is an activity that requires patience, perseverance, and preparation. A successful fly fisherman spends time getting to know as much about the environment surrounding the fish as possible in order to entice the fish to go after an artificial fly. A fly fisherman understands that there is no one single fly which will work in every scenario. Often, …