Employers continuously struggle to find innovative ways to combat employee disengagement. Human resource leaders plan retreats, team-building exercises, and sometimes offer longer vacations to try to incent their teams. In order to understand what drives employees to perform and become A-players, it is necessary to learn the theoretical components behind motivation and employee engagement.



Part of what I Love Rewards offers to clients is industry leading consultation for employers to improve employee motivation and engagement in their workplace. We understand that employees are the most important asset to any organization, and we focus on finding ways to improve their performance. I Love Rewards invites speakers regularly, and actively adds to the employee library to serve their learning needs. Recent speakers have included Brett Wilson, CBC’s Dragon’s Den, and Craig Underwood, Former CEO of Air Miles. Bringing in guest speakers has been a great learning opportunity for [ILR employees. We are excited to open our doors now for human resources professionals to mingle with each other and learn from another industry leader, Chip Conley, CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality and author of Peak.

Recall your university psychology or sociology days, and you will remember learning about Maslow’s “[url=http://www.taprootfoundation.org/blog/hierarchy.JPG]Hierarchy of Needs[/url]”, which begins with our basic needs and evolves to peak experiences. Conley explains how to apply psychologist, Abraham Maslow’s, “Hierarchy of Needs” theory to human motivation in organizations to attain peak performance.

Each employee has a hierarchical set of needs, from basic salary and benefits, to rewards and recognition. Conley’s pyramid includes money, meaning and loyalty. He offers many suggestions based on his personal achievements on how to drive peak performance in the workplace. Learn how he built a successful hotel chain before being rocked by the dot com economic downturn, and then used Maslow’s theory to rebuild his business into the second largest boutique hotel chain in the world.



For more information on Chip Conley visit www.chipconley.com.