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The Rewards of Teaching

After you have rewarded an employee by sending him or her to a seminar, class, course, or other educational program, you can take the reward to higher levels by inviting this individual to conduct a mini-seminar for the other employees. This mini-session would focus on the highlights of whatever your employee learned.

When you allow an employee to run an entire training session, you are fulfilling some of his or her most important psychological needs, namely the needs for recognition, responsibility, achievement, and growth. This step also rewards your employee with firsthand experience in public speaking, planning and organization, and training.

An additional benefit is that your employee will have to learn the course content particularly well in order to teach it. And, on a broader basis, this approach will increase the likelihood that the best content from the original program will actually be applied on the job.