ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

You can increase engagement and reduce turnover by supporting your employees’ career development goals. Reexamine your incentive and rewards program. Revise employee incentives that encourage competition and conflict. Create a career development plan for employees. Create a mentorship program. Avoid Employee Conflict.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

At this moment, most organizations are focused on helping their customers and employees with immediate safety and security needs, recognizing the immediate short-term financial impact on their end goals. Designing incentive compensation structure as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. When it comes to short-term incentives….

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

There is a tremendous amount of conflicting data as to whether or not incentive compensation in any form is an effective motivation tool. They must be relevant, meaningful, in alignment with cultural values, and tied to the right set of metrics. There are those who passionately argue for and against the merits of year-end bonuses.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

For 150 years, corporations, governments and militaries were built for up-and-down leadership, with incentives and rewards that discouraged cross-organization thinking and, in many cases, actually created or encouraged internal competition. There might even be incentives in place that discourage sharing.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

At this moment, most organizations are focused on helping their customers and employees with immediate safety and security needs, recognizing the immediate short-term financial impact on their end goals. Designing incentive compensation structure as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. When it comes to short-term incentives….

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2017

To motivate, manage, and reward B2B salespeople, many companies use sales incentive plans that link large commissions or bonuses to individual results metrics, such as territory quota achievement. The right sales incentive plan creates a double win. Changes include: Changing the metrics for determining incentive pay.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 24, 2011

Last January, GlaxoSmithKline announced it was eliminating its individual sales goals as an incentive compensation measure for sales representatives. Victory Vroom first argued that incentives work only when several conditions are met, one of them being a belief that extra effort will actually increase the measurement of performance.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 24, 2011

Last January, GlaxoSmithKline announced it was eliminating its individual sales goals as an incentive compensation measure for sales representatives. Victor Vroom first argued that incentives work only when several conditions are met, one of them being a belief that extra effort will actually increase the measurement of performance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2017

As a consequence, managers don’t have a clear sense of what is really driving sales in their business, while salespeople, who are inundated with dozens of metrics, get lost in the day-to-day noise. The challenge, of course, is to decide on the right metrics. Wins are the most common metric used across sales roles and industries.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

And as a company, we’ll lean into digitally enabled workflows and digital tools and resources for people to be productive working wherever they are. When I started at the company, our products like Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat were updated once every two years and were sold in boxes through mail-order catalogs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

In the five years since the advent of Dodd-Frank regulation, corporate governance groups, with their policies requiring at least half of long-term incentives to be “performance-based,” have pushed companies to replace options with multi-year, performance plans. Little financial incentive exists.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

She outlines how to rid yourself of failed motivational tactics and shares ways to go beyond discipline, willpower, and goal setting. “High-quality motivation results in the positive energy that sustains your efforts to change behavior or achieving your goals.” Do I feel the goal or situation was imposed on me?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The dilemma for directors, however, is determining what aspects of sustainability, or ESG performance, should have priority — and should be linked to pay incentives. The UN, for example, has outlined 17 broad Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. One major heavy-equipment manufacturer, for example, has 14 sustainability goals.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products. Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics. Despite conflicting messages about climate change from U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

One place to start might be a fresh look at the incentive compensation structure in the pharmaceutical industry. ” The opioid epidemic is an extreme example of how development and marketing incentives drove sales, but ultimately raised the risk of potential addiction, overdose and death. And what can we learn from it?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Once you appreciate the importance of sales optimization, you need to focus on four capabilities, which will help you form a foundation on which to build a productive sales culture. Sales productivity is largely determined by how much the sales force can do in terms of call capacity and its capability to reach target customers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

It’s proven hard to solve these problems partly because of metrics: It’s hard to identify and measure the factors that lead to high-quality information or connection. Technologists often discuss the problem of “ vanity metrics.” In journalism, for example, the pageview is a much-maligned metric.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2015

The distribution of customer workload and opportunity across the sales force has a direct impact on salespeople’s ability to meet customer needs, realize opportunities, and achieve sales goals. Is something wrong with the incentive compensation plan? So why do companies so often underestimate the value of territory design?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

They did one thing right: they set a clear, compelling common goal — cut the deficit by $1.2 That's a pretty good goal. And as I discuss in my book, Collaboration , setting a compelling, unifying goal can be a potent lever for managers to get people to work together across silos in a company. Re-engineer incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

And yet from a review of the research on incentives and motivation, it is wholly unclear why such a large proportion of these executives’ compensation packages would need to be variable. On routine tasks where learning is not necessary, highlighting performance goals works great. Fixating on performance can weaken it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

If you're serious about creating a customer-driven culture, then you will certainly tie incentive compensation to customer feedback. Everyone knows incentive compensation can really focus people's attention. It can spur creativity and accelerate actions designed to meet important goals. It's the basis for their goals.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

However it is my opinion that diversity is not being addressed properly, and as a result has become one of the leading killers of corporate productivity. When you force the diversity agenda for the wrong reasons (no matter how well intended) productivity suffers and resentment grows. In fact, the report points out how “U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Salespeople can work smarter, not harder, by dividing their time more appropriately among customers, products, and sales activities. Strategically important products don’t get sufficient sales support. Salespeople could track up-to-the-minute achievement of all goals. Do salespeople have the information they need?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2018

When we’re hiring someone who has a hard-to-match base salary at their current employer, we cushion our offer with a lucrative bonus structure, commission pay, or other performance incentives. A caveat here: Make sure incentives align with metrics over which the employee has control. Promote balance and flexibility.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Conventional wisdom would seem to suggest that companies have no incentive to lengthen the life cycle of their products and reduce the revenue they would get from selling new goods. For the most part, consumers control what happens to a product. At the same time, offering repair supports the perceived quality of its products.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

This is different than social media marketing , where a brand engages many, aiming to increase overall brand awareness or promote a specific product or service by producing content that users will share with their network. As a result, they’re able to build relationships until prospects are ready to buy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

More and more companies are tying incentive pay to customer metrics. Pep Boys, a US auto parts store chain, reports in its proxy statement that customer metrics are now an important part of its executive compensation system. The payoff from linking incentives to customer feedback can be significant. Don't do that!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

By seeing exactly where and how people spend their time — rather than relying on recollections, anecdotes, or assumptions — executives have a solid basis for taking actions that will raise productivity. The company had experienced lackluster sales growth, especially outside of its core product category.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

It was built in part on the notion that consumers will keep buying the same things from you if you have the right incentives. Yet, according to recent consumer research from Kantar Retail, 71% of consumers now claim that loyalty incentive-programs don’t make them loyal at all.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

Think about how your company sets prices: Are you confident that your prices capture the value of your products and services? But to garner the highest price, your sales force needs to confidently articulate why your product offers the highest value compared to rivals. If your product is better, let customers know how.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Here are five questions to ask: Do your company’s incentives match its policies? Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. But it is the employee incentives that really matter. The right tone from the top helps set the right goals for the organization. Consider the case of GSK.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Incentives : motivate high levels of the right sales activity. performance management, data and tools, incentives, training and coaching) to keep sales activity aligned within the new sales model. Several operational levers influence sales team activity to help you achieve these ends, including the following.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

They undermine productivity and account for more than 85% of health care costs — a big reason premiums for employer-sponsored health care have increased by 123% since 2000 while wages have increased by only 43%. One example is Omada Health , which modeled its product after the landmark Diabetes Prevention Program study.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

And even small improvements in practices can have a huge impact: Among manufacturers, for example, we found that a one-point gain on our five-point scale correlates with 23% higher productivity, 14% higher market capitalization, and a 1.4-percentage-point-higher and then devising metrics for monitoring progress over the short and long terms.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Your R&D group develops a unique new product. A sales model that pays salespeople almost entirely on commission and gives them exclusive "ownership" of customers often works for a while for products in unsaturated markets. Manufacturing produces it. Finance puts the systems in place to track the money coming in.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

The business had ambitious revenue growth goals, and sales leaders wanted to focus sales efforts on the most attractive opportunities. And they can better assess salespeople's performance, provide appropriate feedback, and rank salespeople on metrics that depend on the salesperson, not the territory. Deduce the data.

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