Why Travel Incentives
Travel Incentive Return On Investment
With profit margins increasingly under duress, together with a growing need to have a motivated and productive group of employees, business leaders are challenged to spend their reward dollars against programs that will deliver the best ROI. The question becomes how to do so.
Worldwide Incentive Services uses the following framework, in consultation with its clients to maximize their investment on travel incentives.
1. Determine Your Objectives: Describe where the performance improvement need is. Look out for short and long term goals and where
they apply. Placing your immediate goals within the bigger strategic plan will give you immediate as well as longer-term value.
2. Focus and Communicate: Determine who ‘in’ your performance goal is impacted, NOT only the sales department, if your goal is to increase
sales. Ensure that everyone who could affect the success of the strategy is informed. Employees who really understand the goal, will go the
extra mile.
3. Be clear about the budget: Evaluate the direct costs of the incentive/program as well as the indirect costs. How will it benefit the bottom
line? Elements could be: # of participants, length of the program, cost of collateral materials, cost of incentives.
4. Describe the desired results clearly: Whether it is to increase sales, improve productivity of a particular organization function, close
more deals, improve customer loyalty etc., if you are clear on today’s measurement and can be clear about your goals, then you can readily
determine impact.
5. Determine the Tools of measurement: Often the determination of success is left to a ‘feeling’ that it was a good promotion or left to
simplistic sales and donor volume measures. Remember that motivation is also state of mind – how to measure that? Perhaps a small survey,
scoring the shift in perception among the participants, together with tangible type of measurements will give you a different point of view.
When the things that need to be measured are clear, the measuring itself becomes easy!
6. Choose your rewards with care: You need to be sure, that the rewards themselves, as well as your chosen promotion, fit both what
motivates the recipient and serves your business or organization goals. Getting employee input ahead of time in designing a performance
reward program could be vital to its success.
Travel Incentive Return On Investment
With profit margins increasingly under duress, together with a growing need to have a motivated and productive group of employees, business leaders are challenged to spend their reward dollars against programs that will deliver the best ROI. The question becomes how to do so.
Worldwide Incentive Services uses the following framework, in consultation with its clients to maximize their investment on travel incentives.
1. Determine Your Objectives: Describe where the performance improvement need is. Look out for short and long term goals and where
they apply. Placing your immediate goals within the bigger strategic plan will give you immediate as well as longer-term value.
2. Focus and Communicate: Determine who ‘in’ your performance goal is impacted, NOT only the sales department, if your goal is to increase
sales. Ensure that everyone who could affect the success of the strategy is informed. Employees who really understand the goal, will go the
extra mile.
3. Be clear about the budget: Evaluate the direct costs of the incentive/program as well as the indirect costs. How will it benefit the bottom
line? Elements could be: # of participants, length of the program, cost of collateral materials, cost of incentives.
4. Describe the desired results clearly: Whether it is to increase sales, improve productivity of a particular organization function, close
more deals, improve customer loyalty etc., if you are clear on today’s measurement and can be clear about your goals, then you can readily
determine impact.
5. Determine the Tools of measurement: Often the determination of success is left to a ‘feeling’ that it was a good promotion or left to
simplistic sales and donor volume measures. Remember that motivation is also state of mind – how to measure that? Perhaps a small survey,
scoring the shift in perception among the participants, together with tangible type of measurements will give you a different point of view.
When the things that need to be measured are clear, the measuring itself becomes easy!
6. Choose your rewards with care: You need to be sure, that the rewards themselves, as well as your chosen promotion, fit both what
motivates the recipient and serves your business or organization goals. Getting employee input ahead of time in designing a performance
reward program could be vital to its success.