Proj Team Building in Public Sector

Nice approach Tariq.

In public organisation in many countries bonuses are gazzetted by the government so not so easily paid out to a few individuals. They are normally across the board and subject to scrutiny.

That said i think appreciation of one's work is fundamental even in private organisation. Such appreciation takes form mentioned above thank you notes, direct thank you for your efforts chat, recommending them for training programmes relevant to their jobs or percieved career plan. Name a meeting room after the employee for a year.
Give the employee a reserved parking spot for six months.
Help to pay for a trade association membership of their choice.
Present the employee with a framed certificate to show how valuable the employee’s contribution to the company has been. a chance to lead a task force or project team can be a good motivator too. leadership attention (i.e one to one conversation with the director of the public entity) can also be a good non cash incentive.

There are several other options but the most important thing is you need to target each person with the correct proposition.

As you know, it depends on the local culture and organizational cultre. What worked for me was time flexibility, training, create an internal program for making things better and then help the creator/creators to formalize it and to present it to the directors (I did not present, they present) and to push for the program execution and publishing.