Besides money, what other incentives can be used to motivate your workforce?

Originally answered Sep 7, 2019

In addition to salaries, raises, bonuses, commissions, and benefits, these incentives can be used:

1. Job opportunities: Satisfying and challenging roles, responsibilities, and assignments
2. Goals: targets included in performance plans and communicated and inspected regularly
3. Performance reviews and promotion requirements: making good ratings and promotions dependent on complying with goals and meeting specific expectations
4. Recognition: thanks, praise, and honors
5. Rewards: tangible and valuable awards, desirable training and conferences, and meaningful engagement with leaders
6. Gamification: application of typical elements of game playing (e.g., point scoring, competition with others, rules of play) to other areas of activity to encourage desired behaviors — includes leader boards, digital badges, and task completion percentage indicators
7. Inspiration: communicating authentically, sharing a compelling vision, and telling powerful stories
8. Empowerment: listening to, trusting, and enabling people to succeed
9. Action: being bold, innovative, and decisive
10. Leading by example: modeling desired behaviors

See also:

• How do you keep your team motivated?
• How do leaders inspire action?
• Communicate authentically, act boldly, learn by doing, and lead by example
• How to Be a Better Leader