Retailers like results.  They’re constantly looking for ways to motivate employees to meet and exceed goals.  We’ve discussed MOHR’s Leadership Model and our view that motivation is an input not an outcome in past blogs.  A collegue sent the following YouTube link to me and it resonated strongly.  Not only because it’s scientific proof that supports our practice in developing leaders but also because it reminds us all that while incentives motivate they don’t motivate everything.  Check out the link www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

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About MOHR Retail

For more than 30 years, MOHR Retail has developed the critical people-to-people skills needed to create results in the retail industry—and we’re just getting started. Through innovative classroom and online learning methods, as well as our ongoing national retail research projects, we continue to stay on top of the trends so we can fuel the success of specialty stores, chain stores, outlets, catalogue retailers, department stores, and more. Nowhere does learning meet experience as it does in a MOHR Retail training program.