Let\u2019s take a real life example. We have a sales team on near minimum wages. The miserable efficiency bonus has negative impact on both sales and working morale.<\/p>\n
The boss with a reputation of a rascal has been currently experimenting with elements of positive motivation: leaderboards, badges\u2026 even coffee vouchers and five minute breaks for best sales performances. His \u201cinnovations\u201d hardly had any effect on sales.<\/p>\n
Conclusion? Positive motivation does not work. He should rather stick to traditional yelling, screaming and employee bullying.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s get real for a moment here. Do you really believe anyone out there is willing to sweat his heart out for a free cup of coffee or a five minute break? Leaderboards are a neat thing is you\u2019re the top dog. What about all those in the middle or at the bottom half of the scoreboard? Maybe some badges? Performance levels? Anyone\u2026?<\/p>\n
A difficult situation, yet if we take a closer look this reads just like a perfect game scenario. We just need to introduce two new elements to the plot to make it work:<\/p>\n
A Goal<\/strong> A Motive<\/strong> Let\u2019s take a copper wire with a big red switch in the middle. Connect one end of the wire to electrical socket and the other end to the bosses\u2019 chair. Those who reach the Goal earn a chance to electrocute the boss \u2013 and everyone else gets too watch them do it! Here\u2019s our Motive!<\/p>\n Would this work in a real life scenario? You bet it would! Apart from one minor problem \u2013 the boss might not last long enough to fulfill yearly sales plans.<\/p>\n So our real challenge is to find the right motive. It should be little bit less intrusive and have a little bit longer life span.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll reveal a couple of ideas in our next post. Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s take a real life example. We have a sales team on near minimum wages. The miserable efficiency bonus has negative impact on both sales and working morale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jollydeck.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSelling as much as possible is not a goal. Closing 3 sales or a value of X by the end of the day is.<\/p>\n
\nWhen we achieve goals we (usually) get rewarded. Reward is therefore just a consequence of our drive for the Goal. We need to pursue our Goals with passion coming from within, and for this we need Motive. If we see motive in our actions we\u2019ll pursue our goals with desire unrivaled. So what kind of a reward could trigger this desire?<\/p>\n