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Recognising and acknowledging people for the achievements they have made towards individual, team, project or organisational targets or focuses is critical for motivation and success. However, often people have been so focused on implementing action they can’t always see the full range of things they have achieved. Also, seeing all the individual achievements in the one place is a great way to get a sense of the collective achievements of the partnership, team, project or organisation as a whole.
Use Achievement Stackers during sessions where people are reporting on their actions and improvements, and then celebrate the individual and collective achievements. When first starting to use Achievement Stackers allow people to contribute whatever they have seen or heard in reports that they feel have value and should be recognised as achievements. When people have become more familiar with the tool, you can prompt them to think of different types of achievements in terms of whether they are:
Steps1. Equip people with cards and marker pens. 2. As they are listening to each of their colleagues share their reports about the actions they have taken and the improvements they have achieved, get them to list the achievements the think the person has achieved, one per card, making a note of the person’s / team’s name in the corner of the card. 3. After each report, or at a designated time, the achievements are affixed to a large wall space. 4. The achievements can be grouped in several different ways:
5. The completed Achievement Stacker should be recorded. This can be done quickly with a camera, but the data can also prove very useful in other formats. While recording the achievements is one thing, recognising, acknowledging and celebrating the achievements is important for the motivation and momentum needed to sustain improvement and innovation. The other value from the Achievement Stacker can be in scanning for areas of weakness and over-emphasis. We can sometimes tend to focus our energy in areas in which we find it easy to achieve rather than in the areas in which we need to achieve. Gaps in the Achievement Stacker can highlight areas for future attention. |
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