How are you rewarding your team for Christmas

With the countdown already in full swing towards the end of the year keeping your team focused and on track can take some work.

Often people feel tired, overwhelmed and stressed leading into the Christmas period and look forward to a break over the holidays and finding that extra push to the finish line becomes even more critical.

In response Blinc has developed a campaign that will motivate and engage your team to achieve the results you want as we enter the last few months of the year.

Using the NEW Inc App for Smartphones and Tablets your team will swing into action. The App is a digital technology platform that delivers a real time incentive application run entirely from the Smartphone or Tablet.

Blinc’s Jingle Jingle campaign is tailor made to communicate directly with your team using specific criteria set by you. The NEW Inc App enables you to communicate, engage and reward your team with instant communication and regularly updated leaderboards at the same time allowing you to track team performance. And reward fulfillment is taken care of by Blinc’s in-house team.

So what are you waiting for? Contact us now to see what we can do to take the stress out of motivating and rewarding your team this Christmas.  Contact us on 02 9969 6754 or email admin@blincgroup.com.au

The new office for the mobile workforce

With the current growth in the mobile workforce finding ways to keep a remote team engaged and motivated is becoming increasingly difficult.

Telecommuting and working from home is rapidly growing and estimated to be over 1.3billion globally. Flexible work options and remote locations are highly attractive but what gets lost?  Team building, office comradery and a sense of belonging can often wane so finding creative strategies to incentivise your team and keep them engaged and motivated takes on a whole new meaning.

Aiding this new workforce to be smarter and more agile is the use of technology. Remote work styles are just like the new tech – flexible, superfast and innovative.

So here are four ways technology can help your mobile team’s productivity, motivation and engagement:

• Increase sharing and collaboration –  cloud based file sharing like Microsoft office and Google works enables easy and immediate access to share documents. Team members can readily see who is working on what, encouraging further collaboration and communication.
• Incentives and rewards – recognising your team’s good work can not only boost morale, but also increase productivity and reduce staff turnover. An incentive program, such as Blinc’s Inc App can be delivered directly to the Smartphone  or Tablet in real time with push notifications and broadcasts to the team helping to cement team bonding while out on the road.
• Insights to individual performance – and while Apps can encourage team performance they also allow managers to view individual’s performance.  Seeing more means that managers are able to do more for their team, identify strengths and weaknesses, and support the individual in remote locations.
• Learning on the go – mobile sales teams are the biggest benefactors of online software and mobile applications, which are designed to turn your team into experts with quality training programs that can be completed on the go or away from the desk. Training can be monitored to ensure everyone is up to speed with the latest information requirements and even incentivised with a learn and earn program using the Inc App.

Today’s mobile technology allows even the most remote team to access the latest information in real time. Utilising and investing in what this technology can offer is the next step in building a mobile office that is motivated, cohesive and productive. Take a look at the case studies on the Blinc website for ideas on how to use the Inc App to increase your overall team performance.

Why Incentive Programs Work!

Why does reward and recognition feel so good? Everybody likes to hear “Well done, great job!”

We are all wired for rewards. Literally. In fact, when people receive a positive recognition or a reward, it creates a shot of dopamine, sparked by the neurotransmitters in our brains. According to Kevan Lee in his article on the The Science of Motivation: Your Brain on Dopamine, “The brain can be trained to feed off bursts of dopamine sparked by rewarding experiences.”

In today’s working environment successfully managing your team and keeping them enthusiastic and motivated has many challenges. The power of positive reinforcement can create a happier, more committed and loyal team. And what follows is a more productive workplace.

Incentives are a proven motivator and differ significantly from commission or bonuses. Cash is great but it can disappear into the bank account, pay the bills and seem unremarkable. Incentives offer a way to recognise top performers with memorable and personalised rewards and gives team recognition for a job well done!

In today’s market a successful incentive campaign needs to:

+  Create opportunities for your team to achieve

+  Recognise team performance and reward accordingly

+  Offer your team a range of rewards that are exciting and tangible
    (Oh I’d like that)

It is essential to design a program that identifies what motivates, retains and improves your team’s performance. A tailored incentive program using a reliable and robust technology platform can address today’s issues of a mobile workforce, enable instant communication and recognition to on hand mobile devices, set individual goals so everyone can achieve, and offer tangible and achievable rewards.

Incentive programs will improve your team’s performance from top to bottom. And the added benefit will be a positive and enjoyable working environment and one in which everyone in the company can benefit.

So what are you waiting for? Investigate your options of how to reward and recognising your team now. Contact admin@blincgroup.com.au