While it is easy to offer up platitudes about the value of diversity, actually cultivating it in the workplace can be more of a challenge. For this episode of Incentive: What Motivates, we are bringing you specific, actionable tips for how to reward the right kinds of behaviors to create a more diverse, open and communicative workplace. These come in the form of a talk from Mary Luckey, director of reward strategy for Maritz Motivation Solutions.

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In this episode, we look at how tech tools, such as platforms that track ROI or augmented reality experiences, can enhance an incentive program. At the same time, we discuss where technology can't fully deliver yet and where a human touch — that inspiring head coach speech — remains timelessly effective.

For this topic, we spoke with a pair of Incentive experts: Richelle Taylor, vice president of strategic marketing for performance improvement and marketing services company One10, and Bob Dawson, co-founder of platform-as-a-service technology company TRAVYRS, LLC. They offered best practices for enhancing a program and tips for how you can better be using the tech tools you've already got. Listen on for more.

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How do you effectively motivate Millennials? The question has challenged managers for years, even decades. And now, members of this generation, born as early as 1977 depending on your definition, have become managers themselves. Millennials' high expectations of their workplace and its leadership, as well as their eagerness to hop from job to job, has not mellowed with time-instead, it's become the new standard for all generations in the workplace making it more important than ever to know how to get strong performances from these workers.

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Motivating people. Cultivating an engaged workforce. Inspiring a team to meet and exceed its goals. These may all be worthy ends in themselves—but that might not be enough to convince a client or company leader to invest in an incentive program. That requires the demonstration of the all-important three-letter acronym: ROI. For this episode, we’re looking at the hard numbers of motivation: how to accurately measure ROI and how the concept has evolved just in the last year or two; what metrics matter and how to be sure you’re getting the most out of the data you already have.

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What's it take to effectively market an incentive program? We asked two incentive experts — Mike May, president and owner of Brightspot Incentives, and Scott Siewert, president of Fab at Incentives — who offered illuminating and sometimes surprising answers. Would you believe Pablo Picasso and Space Invaders offer insight into incentive marketing? Listen to find out why.

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What's it take to effectively market an incentive program? We asked two incentive experts — Mike May, president and owner of Brightspot Incentives, and Scott Siewert, president of Fab at Incentives — who offered illuminating and sometimes surprising answers. Would you believe Pablo Picasso and Space Invaders offer insight into incentive marketing? Listen to find out why.