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Can't buy your team lunch every day? Yeah, neither can I. But I do know that creative people require more than a big pay check. I've definitely benefitted from "creative carrots" to run after in my career, but I'm not the only one who reaped the positives along the way.

In what's guaranteed to be a lively discussion, I'll explore a few examples of how to incentivise your employees in creative ways for big returns, while sharing a bit about my own experience and opening up about a few of my own failures as a Leader.