Accelerator Mini-Masterclass
How to Reward Great Staff Without Just Paying More.
The Great Employee Tax.
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How to Reward Great Staff Without Just Paying More
Purpose · Cold open. No housekeeping. Name the thing happening right now.
- ›Put the slide up. Pause one beat before speaking.
- ›You've got somebody who's really good. Reliable, doesn't complain, solves problems. So they get the difficult student, they cover the call-out, they train the new person, they get the project nobody else can handle.
- ›Meanwhile the mediocre employee gets left alone, because we don't trust them with more.
- ›So the reward for being excellent is more work. Same schedule, same everything else, just more. I call this The Great Employee Tax.
- ›Land it: let it go long enough and your best people learn, being great here just gets me a bigger pile.
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Fair pay gets them in the door.
If somebody is genuinely underpaid, nothing here fixes that. A handwritten card doesn't pay rent.
Once pay is fair, money is not the only lever, and often not the one that makes someone say I love working here.
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Not the question
How do I avoid paying people more?
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The question
Once pay is fair, what makes a great person stay and keep being great?
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Fair pay gets them in the door