Employee Incentives only work if they are deemed worthwhile. A well designed incentive program will work if employees know they are in control of the results. The best incentive promotions encourage behaviors that create successful results.

There are five keys to planning a successful employee incentive program.

• Ensure the incentive program's objectives are aligned with the organization's top priorities.
• Consider the goals of the incentive program and ensure participants are motivated and can achieve the awards offered.
• Keep it simple.  Organizations forget that every participant needs to fully understand the point earning opportunities. The more difficult the explanation, the more difficult it is to understand what needs to be done to achieve the incentive program goals.
• Communication plays one of the most vital roles in achieving success in a program. Keeping employees up-to-date with point earning opportunities and issuing progress reports improves employee motivation.
• Reward excellent individual effort and encourage team results. Tracking individual performance can be difficult in certain situations. Sometimes a compromise should not be made between rewarding great individual effort and rewarding overall team results.

Using tangible lifestyle merchandise and travel with an employee incentive program can increase work performance, provide employee motivation and build loyalty.

Let Awards Network assist you in designing and executing an employee incentive program that will unlock new sources of value.

Contact us to discuss your employee incentive program needs.