Aligning Rewards

We had an interesting discussion on a recent Conscious Growth Club coaching call about making sure that the financial rewards of your career path are aligned with the ways you’d like to be rewarded. For instance, you may want or expect to be rewarded for some of the following: devising a creative solution to a problemsuccessfully completing a projecthelping a co-worker solve a problemreporting a problem that could cost the company if not solvedacting with honor and integritytelling the truth in a difficult situationencouraging and/or mentoring a team memberstretching yourself to develop a new skillworking hard But what people are actually rewarded for often includes: keeping your mouth shut and your head downobeying orders without questionagreeing with the bosslooking busylyingclosing sales at any costsuccessfully hiding how distracted and unproductive you areleaning on team members to cover for youcompleting trivial tasksgenerating data that doesn’t help the company achieve any meaningful purpose Misalignments like these can occur regardless of how much control and independence you have over your work. When I started my computer games business in 1994, I expected to be rewarded for my creativity, programming skills, work ethic, and for project completion. I went bankrupt waiting for such rewards to come through. What actually generated income was closing deals with publishers, and those deals introduced dynamics which were misaligned with my ...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Abundance Lifestyle Productivity Source Type: blogs