Rewards – Is Your Team Aligned For Success?
Daniel Pink, the author of Free Agent Nation says, “Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it.” I see this motivational scheme in every organization that I work with. When rewards are done well, magic can happen. Teams can achieve far more than they ever thought possible. However, when parts of this equation aren’t well aligned, then the entire motivational scheme comes into question. Unintended behaviors and actions happen –