Five Critical Points When Using Motivational Incentives
Motivation is intimately connected with the way an individual sees the work process and the social relations happening around him. We now know that the complexity of relations established by an individual has more cognitive factors than thought in the past decades, a process caused by the evolution of the work profile in modern organizations.
The object in this article is to establish five critical rules for motivational incentive, whether its object is a group of employees or a single individual.
Throughout this article I will use the term 'collaborator' to indicate a person who is involved (whether directly or not) in a working process and under an established chain of command. By assuming that employees are a sub-group inside this collaborator perspective, we can widen the use and practicality of these key points and achieve a more advanced framework.
The main objective of this premise is to allow the reader to build a bridge that transcends the usual work relations to a deeper understanding of how motivational strategies can be used towards not only employees but also other groups as well.
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Know the potential of your collaborator. A curriculum vitae is not enough to demonstrate all the qualifications of an individual. To know your collaborator, you must evaluate their risk aversion, their capacity to manage conflicts, their proactivity towards the established goals, their capacity to handle issues with responsibility, and their tolerance to stress.
Motivational techniques must be faced as any other investment; they must be made with a clear perception of their return. Knowing the potential of each of your collaborators helps in asserting the opportunity risk involved in this investment and can be a determinant factor for the choice of the incentive to be used.
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Author: Leandro Bernardo