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This guide covers employee team recognition.
Work teams rule!
As Steve jobs said during a 60 Minutes interview, “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.”Gift cards · Prepaid cards · Direct payments · Merchandise · Charity · Swag
RECOGNIZE THE WORK TEAMS IN YOUR ORGANIZATION THE FIRST WEEK OF DECEMBER
“Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.”
— Patrick Lencioni
“Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.”
— Patrick Lencioni
Countless aspects of extraordinary teams may be celebrated – and rewarded. Business results, like achieving sales goals or achieving high customer service satisfaction scores, are significant. It’s important to recognize and reward them.
But not every team has such clear and obvious key performance indicators (KPIs) and numerical metrics. It may be more difficult to define the success of teams that have less evident data points of success.
We are all aware of easy-to-measure business metrics that can be celebrated:
But how do you reward teams that are working on other aspects of an organization’s mission that don’t have clear-cut KPIs? Effective teams run efficient meetings, communicate effectively, and rely on data to build consensus toward productive solutions.
Here are some of the important elements to successful teamwork that may be celebrated.
THE ORGANIZATIONAL BENEFITS OF EXTRAORDINARY WORK TEAMS
“Every once in a while, you hear an expert that says team chemistry is overrated. You just write that person off.”
— Tony La Russa
“Every once in a while, you hear an expert that says team chemistry is overrated. You just write that person off.”
— Tony La Russa
In 1920, Social Psychologist Floyd Allport demonstrated that a group of people working separately at the same table did better on a variety of tasks despite not collaborating or competing.
Contrary to the generally accepted assumption that management can fix a problem by throwing people at it, adding team members beyond that point decreases the likelihood of success.
Despite the stereotype that youthful energy trumps all, practical business experience turns out to be a useful thing to have on a team.
In 2006, a Harvard study concluded that when heart surgeons worked at their main medical facility with their regular team, their performance improved with time.
It may feel inevitable that employees feel isolated. That experience should be an alarming concern because, according to a 2019 Gallup study, feelings of employee isolation reduce productivity up to 21%.
According to a 2009 Cisco survey of teleworkers, 69% stated working remotely increased their productivity, and 83% said being scattered did not affect or improve their interactions with other team members.
While Einsteins and Newtons do exist, they’re exceedingly rare. In real life, brilliant people are more effective and creative when working with others, especially those who are equally brilliant.
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