PUSHING EMPLOYEES TO DOUBLE WOW!

One of my client companies developed four levels of performance that determined not only pay and promotion, but also bonuses at the end of the year. As I recommended previously, bonuses are the best way to use monetary rewards for performance. The four levels of performance in this company were average performance, excellent performance, wow!, and double wow!

“Average” performance meant that a person’s job was in jeopardy at the end of the year. “Excellent” performance was considered the minimum standard to keep your job and to be considered for promotion.

When employees exceeded their performance requirements and did what was seen by everyone to be an especially outstanding job, they reached the third level of ...

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