The benefits of having an incentive program

Have you ever experienced a lack of engagement in your workplace? Having less-motivated team members affects your productivity – instead of growing, it decreases. Maybe it’s time to learn more about having an incentive program.

Having an incentive program in the workplace can be an excellent way to improve your team’s productivity, motivation, and engagement amongst your team members. It enhances quality in your workplace and encourages the group to accomplish a goal. Does an incentive program really work? 

Well, let’s find out….

Benefits of an incentive program:

  • Improving business goals
  • Improving the quality of work
  • Increasing morale
  • Lowering costs
  • Improving company culture

When an incentive is offered, 85% of your team members will feel more motivated to do their best. A study by the International Society of Performance Improvement says that Incentive programs can increase performance by up to 44 percent in teams and 25 percent in individuals.


Businesses that use incentive programs also see three times greater annual revenue growth than those that don’t. Professionals who are happy with their benefits are more than twice as likely to be content with their jobs as well.

As a leader, do you want your team members to be happy and give their best? Trust the power and benefits of having an Incentive program.

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What is different about the incentive programs implemented by TOP performing companies?

Nurturing relationships is one of the biggest attributes to the success of a business. Measuring them however can be a challenge.

One way is to facilitate a structured Reward and Recognition Program. This industry is a billion dollar business world-wide and many organisations in Australia are following suit and reaping huge benefits.

The obvious benefits that companies first look for are tangible, but what about the intangible? How do the intangible outcomes actually boost performance exponentially?

By definition, a “Top Performing Company” is one that demonstrates strong performance in the following areas:

  • GROWTH: 5% Stock price/Revenue Growth
  • CUSTOMER PERFORMANCE: 90% Customer Satisfaction
  • EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE: 90% Employee Satisfaction

Very reasonable aspirations for any organisation wanting to stay ahead of the game!

The below image explains how they do it.

As a leader in your industry can you afford not to implement an Incentive Program?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Incentive reward – the elephant in the room

One year on from an astounding election victory and the Republicans in Washington are showing the way forward with economic growth, unemployment reduction AND less people being able to afford private healthcare. Well….I guess you can’t have it all.

OR CAN YOU?

The flow through effect for Australian business is positive in every sense. 

The ASX200 is climbing with the Dow Jones, economic predictions are upbeat for 2018 and the Aussie Dollar is strong and stable.

Justifiably, management is looking to maintain current marketing spend and/or increase it to capture the imagination of their target audience subsequently improving sales and increasing the bottom line.

Good thinking, we all say – let’s get down to it and show the market how it’s done. There are plenty of opportunities out there and prospective business has never been so good.

Our major disappointment in this scenario is that this is where the momentum ends. Management just doesn’t get the fact that

Motivation = creative input = expenditure

to gain better results.

Too many marketers are overtaken by fear when they see the cost of delivering and rewarding a highly tuned incentive program. It’s not the cost of actually running the program that worries them but the cost of the reward. Let’s not forget that these guys want to be seen as heroes when it comes to reward but they lack bravado when it comes to paying for it.

 

Many will consider a set budget  to be the required amount of funding necessary  to deliver a quantifiable and well-deserved reward. Very few are thinking outside the box and looking into the “exponential growth” ether.

It’s time marketers started looking at what they need to achive and figure out the best way to reward their high achievers. If they are governed by Head Office budgets then they need to consider:

 

  • Raising qualification levels
  • Reducing the number of qualifiers
  • Change the program reward
  • Factor the cost of additional qualifiers into the earning process – i.e.

Higher sales = more revenue = more funds available for reward

It is not viable to think you can keep on providing the ultimate reward for an ever increasing number of qualifiers with the same budget that has remained static for 5 years.

Dare to be different and make the most of what the economy has to offer. Go with the flow and give the market what it is screaming for:

Recognition, creativity and above all –

Leadership.

 

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