Taryn MancineProject Manager| Cook MyoSite, IncPittsburgh, Pa, United States
Do other project managers get their project teams goodies or something to reward them when a project is complete? Or bring in small treats for a long project team meeting. I have seen both sides, where a PM may bring in lunch or treats to keep the team focused and/or have a little souvenir when a project completes. I am on the fence about this and wondering what others do, if anything? Does this help with keeping the team motivated in participating, or just set up bad notions for future meetings (such as it is expected to occur). Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Good Question.
I always do that all the time. For meetings in our office, I bring Coffee & Cookies if the meeting is in the morning or lunch / snack if in the afternoon and it is a long meeting.
In other cases, we can discuss some stuff over breakfast - From my experience, pulling the team or the meeting atmosphere out of the office creates a more collaborative environment and increases motivation.
Of course, we have an incentive program in place for performers.
Everyone like to feel that they are appreciated. Saving Changes...
- During the project, some candies, homemade cookies. I've realized that if I bring something first, usually we'll create a kind of "competition" or tasting goodies during all the project. My teams used to be very competitive.
- At the closing project. We use to save some budget for a meeting + lunch or breakfast at the office. During the lunch, depending on the budget and the involved team members, some USB, or free merchandising material from the client (as t-shirts, water bottles, stress balls that we collected during the year from the Marketing Department) if we didn't collect enough for all the team, we made a raffle.
Benefits - Small details, create a better ambiance in your team and engage them for the next project.
Cons - There was always a team member that don't like this kind of appreciation or don't understand that we do as we can with the budget that we manage, and always are complaining and asking for more and more. You bring cookies, "you don't have money for a cake!", you give a t-shirt, "is there no money for a jacket?" Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
When everything start you have a group. You have to create a team from that group. To create a team you have to find ways to align all people to project objectives. To do that you have to perform a project stakeholder analysis to know about how to do that. To participate in the project demmands a change into each stakeholder and you have to find the way to create that change. So, about motiviation, for definition of team all people should be motivated if not there is not a team in place. I firmly believe that the way to motivate people is demostrating that you are at their side and you are the first to help them to do the things happends. Gifts and other type of things could not be good. But it depends on your project stakehodlers (the project team members are project stakeholders too). Saving Changes...
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