Celebrating Victories


At yesterday’s Leadership Meeting we celebrated the success of managers as reflected in employee engagement scores. It was a delight to give awards for a variety of areas – having 50% engagement, improving scores by 15% or more, consistency in passing 80% engagement two years in a row, and more. You have worked hard to make this happen, and it’s fun to celebrate together.

In a blog at impraise.com, we are reminded that “celebrating milestones injects life into the organization, making it worthwhile for employees to contribute to the long-term success of the company. Defining success can be as simple as a praise for an individual’s performance over a week or the overall success of the company over the past 12 months. Success should be whenever a colleague achieves a goal. Personal efforts count when the achievement contributes to the team’s common goals. Basically, everything that gets done and contributes to the mission of the team is a team success.”

How do you celebrate success with your team? An important piece of employee engagement is celebrating with your team when they succeed. Whether it’s an individual achievement, or the team meeting a goal together, it’s important to celebrate those things as a team. It might be something as simple as a shout-out in team huddle, or a small gift to recognize the achievement. Whatever it looks like, the value is in the recognition and celebration.

The blog finishes with these words: “Recognize employee achievement and you will reap the rewards from their motivation and loyalty.”



https://blog.impraise.com/360-feedback/how-to-celebrate-success-as-a-team


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