Motivation - youre doing it wrong - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Motivation - youre doing it wrong - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog Heres (yet another) great TED presentation this one is by Dan Pink and is about the mismatch between what science knows and what businesses do to motivate people. Dans point is that rewarding performance mostly doesnt work and often leads to worse performance. For tasks that are simple and straight-forward and require no creativity or cognitive skills, extrinsic motivation works fine and promising people rewards for good performance increases performance. But as soon as a task requires even rudimentary cognitive skills, performance decreases if you offer performance rewards. And the larger the reward, the worse the performance. Related posts Why pizza doesnt motivate How leaders motivate or not The big hoax Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related