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When Your Bonus Becomes an Onus

Whether you are a trainer, manager, salesperson or professional, you often give extra things to people. Such bonuses usually are in non-monetary terms. Common bonuses include free coaching, extra tuition, paid holidays and of course training (paid by companies).   Unfortunately, many people consider such bonuses as onouses instead. This is because they don't see any value in these bonuses. They also feel that they incur extra effort and time to get these 'free bonuses", like to attend training they must wake up early. When the staff see these bonuses as onuses, their perception of their bosses will become more negative than before.  Thus it is important that we must ensure that bonuses do not become onuses or this will backfire and make us look stupid.  There are 3 things that we must do if we don't want our bonuses to become onuses: Place a value in the bonuses , let them know how much they have to pay if they were to buy from outside, and incur extra costs