One way to reward people is to give them praise ("Wow, you did a great job on that report"). And because we want to motivate people, and we think praise is a reward, we may tend to use it a lot. But ...

One way to reward people is to give them praise ("Wow, you did a great job on that report"). And because we want to motivate people, and we think praise is a reward, we may tend to use it a lot. But ...