Green Goldfish

A speaker presents on "Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic" motivation, emphasizing intrinsic rewards for better performance.

Extrinsic vs. intrinsic Rewards – What Makes a Difference to The Bottom Line?

Extrinsic factors like salary and benefits don’t necessarily lead to employee motivation or boost firm performance. What does? Intrinsic elements. That’s what Dan Ariely shared on a recent episode of the Prof G podcast with Scott Galloway. The Green Goldfish concept, which emphasizes the importance of going beyond monetary incentives, also reinforces this idea. The […]

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Wellbeing is less woo, woo and more WOOO!

Does employee Wellbeing impact Firm Performance and profitability?

I’ve heard people say employee well-being is just a bunch of woo-woo. Turns out it is more Ric Flair, “WOOOO!” A report from researchers at Oxford and Harvard this month has shown a strong positive relationship between employee wellbeing and firm performance. The study aggregated data from over 1,600 listed companies in the US. It

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How can leaders foster engagement and reinforce culture post-Covid with a distributed workforce?

Great time today at our first Jeffersonian Lunch of 2023 with Sarah Lien Finnerty, Pam Didner, and Chris Quinn. We went to Mookies New York Deli in Cary. Thanks to owner Ron Didner for the hospitality. Hat tip to Marcey Rader, CSP® as we had Marcey’s Brussel Sprouts as an appetizer. Here was our topic:How can leaders foster engagement and reinforce culture

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This is the ONE thing that causes most presentations to fail…

It’s DISCOVERY. Failing to give your audience time to process new ideas/concepts and allow them the space to discover how to implement what they’ve learned. Big thanks to Victoria Tracy Ringwood and Nikki Jones for providing me the opportunity to present to KONICA MINOLTA, INC. in Mahwah, New Jersey. I shared lessons about customer centricity from both Purple Goldfish 2.0 and

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How can companies boost employee morale and drive high performance?

How can companies boost employee morale and drive high performance? The simple answer is doing the little extras beyond compensation to demonstrate commitment to your employees. Yesterday I shared lessons from Green Goldfish in Dallas at #TaxGrowthCon. We examined how companies go above and beyond to create signature extras. While collecting 1,001 examples of employee

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FoodShare Toronto thinks we should pay candidates to interview

Should we pay job candidates to interview? FoodShare Toronto thinks so. The non-profit organization began paying job applicants $75 per interview. CEO Paul M. Taylor told CTV News Toronto, “I think employers have gotten off scot free for far too long by expecting candidates to bear the costs of an interview. We recognize that people

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