Let your team reward themselves!

One of the toughest things to do is decide when and what gets a team member recognized.  Awards are a great way to get a team motivated...or I should say portions of a team motivated.  As we've noted before here - folks are motivated by very different things.  But Awards normally can touch each type - recognition is something most folks like!  But trying to figure out who gets them can be the tricky part - don't want to reward the favorites each week.  But that path can breed trouble!

But avoid the trouble - let the team vote on it themselves!  I put together a small box (bought of ebay) that allowed the team to recognize themselves.  Slips of paper and what they did to earn the reward were all that was needed!  Boom instant HIT!  We'd pick the winner - each week in our Team Meeting and DONE!  When entries got slow - I even began to reward the writers of the nominations - four winning nominations got you a prize as well!

So stop stressing about who wins!  Let your team do the heavy lifting!