Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2016

In one study, being trusted increased levels of oxytocin (the bonding hormone that creates a feeling of well-being) in the brain which in turn triggers more generous and trusting responses. “When you give employees trust and freedom to act responsibly, you don’t need nearly as many policies.” Trust allows employees to focus on performance.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 14, 2021

However, 401(K) plans offer financial benefits and tax incentives that make them attractive to include Bitcoin and other investments like stocks or bonds. Still, Bitcoin has a very low correlation with other asset classes such as bonds or stocks, making the 401 (k) crypto assets portfolio more stable than traditional 401 (k).

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

However, many travel nurses find a support network of fellow travelers to bond with at their destinations. Known as completion and referral bonuses, these incentives, generous housing stipends, and comprehensive group health insurance can boost your paycheck.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 4, 2016

There was a true bond created among team members and with the team leader. They aren’t asked to manage people’s hearts; leaders are incented to drive results. I ask what that team was like for them. They report that serving on that team was fun. Goals were met without drama. Relationships were honest, civil, and real.

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HR Digest

MARCH 5, 2021

This boosts overall team engagement and strengthens bond among your employees. . Incentives such as bonuses and dress down Fridays (or even the almighty happy hour!), Here are some tips to help you put together a happy workplace. The Workplace Culture. A dull, uninspiring workplace can result in a loss of motivation towards work.

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HR Digest

MARCH 20, 2019

Some no-cost incentive can be attached to the appreciation to serve as motivation. These activities help to build bonds between employees, lay the foundation for loyalty and create an air of excitement in the office. To avoid this, employers should show some level of appreciation to deserving employees.

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Clinton M. Padgett

JANUARY 26, 2021

True bonds, participation, and involvement, however, cannot be replaced with these technologies. PMs who don’t have leverage or incentive at their disposal instead gain respect and accountability from these individuals. . Amidst today’s global health crisis, we should be grateful for the technology that keeps us connected.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Retirement Plans: Retirement plans help workers prepare for the future by investing their money in long-term investments like stocks and bonds. It can be used as an incentive for them to stay with your company instead of moving on to another job where they might get more vacation days.

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 20, 2016

Knowing how to adjust and work with everyone in the team is a start in forming a strong bond. One such way to encourage friendly competition is by offering rewards and incentives in each team building activity. Make sure you know what your teammates are feeling, so you understand them better. A simple “How are you?”

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Gold Stars/Incentives. Keeping one another accountable will help the company become stronger as they’ve been bonded together. There are many employees that have lots of ideas, but have bosses with large egos. Don’t let ego get in the way of an employee’s ability to offer more to the company.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

For the long-termers, this ‘science identity’ was important as it helped bond the teams together. Those with the longest participation built upon this with a strong desire to protect and monitor the beach, whilst helping to make scientific discoveries. “COASST fulfills both science and social interests for coastal residents.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Your victimizers’ incentive pay is probably even based (at least in part) on your achievements. It probably goes without saying that there’s no rational logic to the victimization of high performers. After all, if you’re a high performer, by definition you have an outsized impact on the organization, and you help make the workgroup shine.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 19, 2019

When people see this in others we suggest it forms a bond, and in leadership this can be a powerful bond. Notions of piecework spring to mind, incentive schemes and so on. It can result in high levels of loyalty, contribution and work satisfaction.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

If it’s expensive to insure a house on the coast, individuals will have an incentive to live elsewhere. If insurers offer a discount for climate-proofing homes, homeowners will likewise have an incentive to make that investment. Hayek , economists have emphasized the central role that price signals play in markets.

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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. The goal of most executive incentive plans is to focus leaders on hitting goals and achieving outcomes. Fixating on performance can weaken it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Argentina lost big to a group of American “vulture” hedge funds in court last week, when the Supreme Court declined to reconsider an appeals court decision that the funds had the right to demand that the country make good on a bunch of old bonds they owned even though it long ago renegotiated the terms of that debt with most creditors.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

Nobody wants to wind up like Jamie Dimon, head of JPMorgan Chase, whose cherished legacy has been pickled by what Dimon himself called "egregious mistakes" by an obscure group of bond traders at the firm. Safeway's risk management team developed insurance incentive programs that reinforce safe behaviors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Severn Trent Water, among other UK water companies, has agreed to “outcomes-delivery incentives” with the regulator Ofwat that results in rewards and penalties if it meets or fails to meet, respectively, performance commitments. There are management tools and incentives in place to encourage a focus on results and the end goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2011

And multiplied, your pattern of investments in your dreams — acting classes, music lessons, lectures, books, seminars, travel, and so on — would begin to set incentives for people doing useful stuff, who were able to help you meaningfully accomplish those dreams. Rather, here's how I'd describe it.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 15, 2013

When they feel you are happy about their success, it will enhance the joy they feel and create a bond between the two of you. How’s that for an incentive? Be happy for them and take that emotion with you when you go tell them what a great job they did. Here are a couple examples that apply at home. Feel her joy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Work, the modern equivalent of a hunting tribe, provides a major context for affiliation and bonding. If you are rewarded for playing the game, you surely have no incentive to stop playing. .” First, the need to get along , which promotes cooperation and makes us group-living animals.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In short, organizations frequently have both institutional biases and incentives to avoid developing crazy ideas. Firms lose the ability to innovatively manufacture, modify their systems on the fly, and build bonds with key customers when they overcommit to outsourcing. Real craziness is what gets outsourced.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

This links directly to his second theme around “getting the incentives right.” “For training to work it has to be effective and incentives have to be in place (financial, personal growth, promotion, etc.) Or must it be managed to build better bonds and relationships throughout the enterprise?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

He sees the bonding achieved through walking meetings as a micro version of the bonding that can be experienced when coworkers travel together on business trips. Naming a point of interest, he says, provides more rationale and incentive for others to go for a walk. Eytan, whose office is located in Washington, D.C.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

A third key finding is the substantial increase in the proportion of men using PFL to bond with a new child , which rose from 17% to 26% over the six years since the program began. This, along with the fact that the program offers wage replacement, seems to be an effective incentive for men's increased participation in care of a new child.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Some of the San Francisco-based groups, for example, bonded via discussions about the Golden State Warriors basketball team and opportunities to be more active in the city. This provides the company with an incentive to improve participants’ lifestyle habits and prevent diabetes.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

For example, a CEO of a beverage company, asked to name the most important responsibility of a leader, said it was “to create the emotional bond between our people and the organization.” Tying incentives to engagement survey scores is tricky and can lead to unintended consequences. Measure and reward engagement achieved.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

For example, a CEO of a beverage company, asked to name the most important responsibility of a leader, said it was “to create the emotional bond between our people and the organization.” Tying incentives to engagement survey scores is tricky and can lead to unintended consequences. Measure and reward engagement achieved.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

These tradeoffs can be particularly consequential in large financial institutions, such as huge employee incentives for financial performance combined with poor risk management practices. environmental, social, and governance — or ESG) performance. The result is a "heads the bank wins, tails society loses" set of outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

In olden times, the bond raters at S&P and Moody's were financial advice providers, sort of like Morningstar is today. That doesn't mean they were infallible, but it was pretty clear what they were up to and what their incentives were. The United States and Moody's Bond Rating Service." But what job is that, exactly?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Incentives or other extrinsic rewards—individual bonus schemes, promises of nice offices and titles, and other tangible benefits— create transactional relationships , not deep bonds to an employer. Let’s start with what doesn’t work.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2014

That belief can be traced largely to a classic 1962 theoretical analysis by economist Arnold Harberger, who concluded that owners of capital — not just a corporation’s shareholders but anybody who owned some bonds, a house, whatever — bore almost all the burden of corporate income taxes in the U.S. Harberger saw this as a bad thing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

First, in-person meetings have been found to increase rapport and empathy, facilitating cooperation and enhancing bonds between the parties. But should we? Yes — at least according to the science.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. That bonding role extends to other aspects of the business as well, such as delivering on products and services.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Pride is a better motivator than money and relying on financial or promotion incentives to elicit employee engagement in social media initiatives can backfire. These behaviors are very consistent with his messaging in podcasts, e-mails and blogs about how much the company values its sales consultants' contributions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The junk bond market made financing large takeovers possible and even the biggest among the Fortune 500 firms were no longer safe from a forced acquisition. Golden parachutes became an insurance policy meant to retain executives and ensure their financial protection while also aligning their incentives with those of investors.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

“Talking about mental health can be scary and uncomfortable, but I’ve found that opening up the conversation in a safe place facilitates bonding and switches the tone of the conversation from a series of shameful confessions to an open, collaborative, and solution-focused environment,” Crawford said.

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