With Great Talent Comes Great Responsibility - how goals and KPIs demotivate the best employees - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

With Great Talent Comes Great Responsibility - how goals and KPIs demotivate the best employees - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog More and more workplaces want to measure everything. KPIs, scorecards and performance goals are supposed to motivate employees and help increase their productivity. But is that really a good way to motivate employees and makes them happy? Helle Hein has a ph.d. in management and has done research on motivation for the past 20 years. Her research?shows that many people are not motivated by metrics and bonuses but by something more meaningful ? a professional calling or a cause that matters deeply to them. Leading these people based only on performance measures and financial rewards leads to frustration and a huge loss of talent and motivation. In this talk from the International Conference on Happiness at work 2017 in Copenhagen she will show you how your organization can get the most out of its most talented employees, what really motivates people (no, it?s not bonuses) and how to make sure that people feel that their work really matters to them. 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