Gamed: Why Performance Targets and Incentives Fail and How to Fix Them

Overview

Targets can be a powerful catalyst for remarkable achievements - from landing humans on the moon to eradicating smallpox and repairing the ozone layer. However, poorly designed targets can have severe consequences, potentially leading to executive imprisonment, corporate collapse, or even loss of life.

This course uses real-world examples and case studies to guide you through a practical, step-by-step process for crafting robust, effective, and credible targets for your organization. You'll learn how to harness the positive potential of targets whilst avoiding the pitfalls that can derail even the most well-intentioned performance initiatives.

Highlights

• Diagnosing problems with existing performance targets and incentives
• Designing performance targets (that work in the real world)
• Designing incentives the drive the intended behaviours and outcomes
• Avoiding common mistakes, problems and pitfalls with performance targets and incentives

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

Business professionals who:

Are tasked with creating new, effective, performance targets and incentives
Those who need to fix existing, problematic, performance targets and incentive schemes
Want a structured and practical design framework

Objectives

• Spot and understand the 33 common ways targets and incentives can go wrong
• Get to grips with the 15-step ROKET-DS design system
• Put the method into practice through hands-on workshop exercises
• Confidently apply ROKET-DS to your own business or your clients' organizations

Preparation

None

Notice

This course is provided by a third-party vendor. Please note that login instructions will not be available in the ‘My Upcoming CPE’ section of the NESCPA website. Instead, the login instructions will be sent directly to you via email by ACPEN. Upon completing the course, your hours will be recorded in the ‘My CPE Tracker’ section of the NESCPA website.