5 Great Ways to Celebrate your Team

Celebrating your team and recognising their good work should be an intentional daily or weekly activity.

Reflecting back on the earlier stages when I began working in IT I was never told I was doing a good job. It was demotivating.

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I was working hard and executing tasks and projects but my boss at the time never stopped to take a moment to celebrate the work and recognise me or the team.

As humans we need feedback, we need to know if what we’re doing is working or on the right path.

Sometimes it helps to prevent imposter syndrome from creeping in too.

“Am I doing a good job? No one has said I am not? But they also haven’t said I am, I must be doing a bad one?”

It also saps morale when someone works hard at something but isn’t recognised.

Make it your task this week to recognise some folks in your team!

I’ll give 5 ways you can do that below.

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If you haven’t already, you know what to do:

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5 Great Ways to Celebrate your Team

Let’s go!

1) Customer Surveys - send surveys to your customers and ask them for feedback on your team’s interactions or service.

What you do:

• Share the feedback comments with the team member and ask if they’re comfortable with you sharing with the team? If so, you’re good to go.

• Share in the team channel!

2) Personal Video - use Loom, it’s free. I love this one! It adds heart and meaning to the words rather than just sending a message or Slack.

What you do: