Present a Project Award
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by Stéphane Parent
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Every success on your project is an opportunity to present an award. The ritual of award presentation fills your team members and stakeholders with pleasure and awe. Here are some tips to make this a tremendous project event.
Start off by mentioning the occasion represented and commemorated by the award. Share the purpose behind the award. Make sure you put emphasis on the appreciation you and the project feel towards the contribution. You should then pay tribute to the award recipient. Keep this presentation brief, no more than three minutes.
The award object should be proudly displayed or hand held so that your whole audience can see it. Unless meant as a surprise, you should brief the recipient beforehand. When you call up the recipient, make sure to hold the award in the hand closest to the person. Offer the award and, if appropriate, invite the recipient to say a few words.
The award presentation event can be done and over in about five minutes. It's a great way to start a meeting or session. Make up some serious and not-so-serious award opportunities for your project team. It will boost morale and create excitement! What kind of awards have you presented on your projects?
Posted on: February 05, 2020 06:50 PM |
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Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Stephane
I agree with you. On the projects I was involved in, we presented:
1) Safety Excellence Awards
2) Quality Excellence
3) Performance Excellence
The gift was a certificate and an amount of money.
RK
Stéphane Parent
Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker
Prince Edward Island, Canada
Those are great awards, Rami, because they can be given at different points of a project.
You are right, I will add in the list of Mr.Rami Project Completion Awards.
Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Luis Branco
CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª
Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dear Stéphane
Interesting your perspective on the topic: "Present a Project Award"
Thanks for sharing
I didn't quite understand what the purpose of this award is.
Reward a person for their performance on the project?
Reward the team because the project was a success?
Stéphane Parent
Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker
Prince Edward Island, Canada
That's the beauty of awards, Luis. They can be for whatever and whoever is worth recognizing. You can recognize work or personal events. The award is only a means to boost morale.
Stéphane Parent
Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker
Prince Edward Island, Canada
As an example, I was onced given a small trophy at my company's golf tournament for being the "most deliberate" player. (They were saying I was the slowest player.)
Luis Branco
CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª
Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dear Stéphane
As a result of the attribution of so many awards and recognitions, are they not in danger of being devalued?
Suneel Kumar Nadella
Director (Self Employed)| Manasai Services Pvt Ltd (Self Employed)
Solihull, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Dear Stephane, Presenting awards and recognition is important for motivating employees. Now a days lot of companies have organisational awards(including monetary rewards) in place covering broad categories like star of month to excellence covering the lifecycle of a project or support. I am trying to understand where do you fit these awards or recognition in. I have always used organisation route by nominating people for their contribution than taking a PM route as the employees believe getting this recognition from organisation level is beneficial for them. Also we (as end Client and service provider) have nominated our projects for special category awards within geographies where we operated from.
Stéphane Parent
Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker
Prince Edward Island, Canada
Luis, the award does not hold the value. Your project team's mood improvement holds the value. If you can make them laugh or applaud, you've touched them and improved their day.
Stéphane Parent
Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker
Prince Edward Island, Canada
Hey Suneel. Organizational awards are certainly useful. I've used them myself. The problem with them is that they are not specific to your project. If you find opportunities within your project to provide awards, you can build team spirit which helps your project.
I'm wishing that Microsoft Teams or Slack or one of the cloud collaboration services started incorporating Uber/PM.com style badges to acknowledge people and have that show up in their avatars. It would be like a virtual award.
Stéphane Parent
Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker
Prince Edward Island, Canada
Hey Gerardo. I like the idea of your awards travelling with your virtual self. Just make sure that as much fuss is made about the soft award as you would for the physical award.
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