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Other Added - Employee Incentive Programs that Really Work
How strong is your brand? Can your brand survive poor service or poor value? How you use or lose your customer value perception opportunities tell much about your style of leadership.Every point-of-contact you or your employees have with your customers is an opportunity to increase or decrease your customers’ perceived value of doing business with you. The key idea here is perceived value. No matter how important you believe customer service to be, it is nothing more than a conduit for customer perceived value.The crucial question to you, “Are you embracing, or squandering, your oppor
April’s Theme: Customer Satisfaction Surveys
Target: Collect at least 50 surveys this month
Reward: Pizza & soda lunch
May’s Focus: Flyer Offer Response
Target: At least
Traditionally people have been using rubber stamps to put a seal on the important documents – marking the company name or other endorsements. These stamps have to be pressed on an inkpad first and then on the surface where the stamp is needed. Recently pre-inked stamps have made their way in the market and are highly preferred because of their neatness and superior print quality.Pre-inked stamps can be used for marking on any surface. These stamps are fast drying and water-resistant which makes it perfect for identifying personal items, photography, industrial equipment etc. There is no need
I’m sold on them. I have successfully used incentives and bonus programs in my own businesses - particularly in my first company. But, that was a medical electronics company with a stable workforce. What if you're in retail or other high-turnover, short attention span industries – maybe with a teenage workforce?
Most bonus programs run all year, with either a quarterly or year-end payout. But if you have a high employee turnover rate, the incentive you're trying to create goes out the door with each employee who goes away. Even the folks who stay until the end of the year may not have a long-range attitude, so it can be very difficult to get their attention and to use bonuses to accomplish a change in their performance.
Regardless of your industry and regardless of the reasons why a year-long bonus plan hasn't worked for you, try a shorter-range plan to get tangible results.
I recommend a monthly theme or focus (choose the word that you prefer) with corresponding targets and rewards. Here are two examples:
April’s Theme: Customer Satisfaction Surveys
Target: Collect at least 50 surveys this month
Reward: Pizza & soda lunch
May’s Focus: Flyer Offer Response
Target: At least
Ongoing career education is something that can help separate from you other job searchers and in some cases might help to win you the job.As a recruiter, I have worked with companies who won’t hire people without a university degree. In some cases, they specify the type of degree needed but in other cases, the company doesn’t care what the degree is in as long as you have one.In other words, a lack of education can cost you. And you might not even realize it if the company doesn’t publicly admit this policy but simply lets their recruiters know about this particular form of screening.
Most bonus programs run all year, with either a quarterly or year-end payout. But if you have a high employee turnover rate, the incentive you're trying to create goes out the door with each employee who goes away. Even the folks who stay until the end of the year may not have a long-range attitude, so it can be very difficult to get their attention and to use bonuses to accomplish a change in their performance.
Regardless of your industry and regardless of the reasons why a year-long bonus plan hasn't worked for you, try a shorter-range plan to get tangible results.
I recommend a monthly theme or focus (choose the word that you prefer) with corresponding targets and rewards. Here are two examples:
April’s Theme: Customer Satisfaction Surveys
Target: Collect at least 50 surveys this month
Reward: Pizza & soda lunch
May’s Focus: Flyer Offer Response
Target: At least
When you marry science and numbers, amazing things can happen. This explains the appeal of biostatistics, a field which appears to be gaining in popularity. Because of the aging of the population, the practice of using statistics to study disease has taken on added significance.A biostatistician develops studies which assist doctors in treating patients and help scientists to come up with new medications. Therefore, the work of a biostatistician can be critical in the fight against disease. As a result, working in this field can be intellectually stimulating, emotionally gratifying, and even
Regardless of your industry and regardless of the reasons why a year-long bonus plan hasn't worked for you, try a shorter-range plan to get tangible results.
I recommend a monthly theme or focus (choose the word that you prefer) with corresponding targets and rewards. Here are two examples:
April’s Theme: Customer Satisfaction Surveys
Target: Collect at least 50 surveys this month
Reward: Pizza & soda lunch
May’s Focus: Flyer Offer Response
Target: At least
As a cleaning service one of the things you will be responsible for is to make sure that you are killing germs and other microorganisms. Germs, disease causing bacteria and viruses can hide in all kinds of nooks and crevices in your buildings - everywhere from toilet seats to doorknobs. And these tiny creatures are not content to stay in one place for long. They catch rides on hands, garbage cans, and cleaning equipment and are then spread throughout the building. Knowing how disinfectants work will help you to choose a suitable disinfectant to control the microorganisms that lurk in your build
Regardless of your industry and regardless of the reasons why a year-long bonus plan hasn't worked for you, try a shorter-range plan to get tangible results.
I recommend a monthly theme or focus (choose the word that you prefer) with corresponding targets and rewards. Here are two examples:
April’s Theme: Customer Satisfaction Surveys
Target: Collect at least 50 surveys this month
Reward: Pizza & soda lunch
May’s Focus: Flyer Offer Response
Target: At least
You’ve got a great business idea, and are keen to get started on your new business, BUT you’ve also got a family, mortgage and other commitments. How do you get your new business running but still pay the bills and see the family and friends?Well you build up your business in your spare time. In some ways this is better, because you are doing all the hard work of building a great business foundation whilst still paying your bills. The downside is that it cuts into your family and leisure time. So here’s a suggestion of how to do it:1) Decide how much time a week or month you want
April’s Theme: Customer Satisfaction Surveys
Target: Collect at least 50 surveys this month
Reward: Pizza & soda lunch
May’s Focus: Flyer Offer Response
Target: At least 100 customers redeem the offer on this month's flyer
Reward: $25 gift card for each employee
The possibilities are endless, but here are some commonalities and issues to consider:
- If you have more than one location, the target and reward can be for the entire operation, or for each location. In other words, one office might win and the other might not. A little friendly competition between the locations is OK as long as it remains positive. You'll have to decide how to handle rewards for employees who move between multiple locations. Inside each office or location, avoid competition and work to foster an environment of cooperation and teamwork.
- Once you achieve a target and move on to the next month's focus, it doesn't mean your employees can say "mission accomplished" and now ignore the prior months' themes. You've now proved you can achieve a certain level of performance in that area, and you should reasonably be able to expect that level of achievement going forward. This will take some education, reminders and maybe some resid
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