Seeking workable ideas for a staff "rewards & recognition" program

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Seeking workable ideas for a staff "rewards & recognition" program

Posted by Mitch Betts on May 15, 2008 at 12:39pm

I'm looking for recommendations for how to structure a "rewards & recognition" program for the whole staff. We'd been giving $200 AmEx certificates to news reporters for extraordinary efforts each month, but we need something broader to cover the whole staff (including features, online community, blogging, copy desk, etc.). For one thing, it's not fair to be recognizing just one part of the organization.

Suggestions? What do you do to recognize super-contributions? What works? What's meaningful?

(Um, we also have to do it on an ever-shrinking budget.)

Tags: awards, motivation, recognition, rewards, staff

Comment by Maurreen Skowran on May 18, 2008 at 2:35am: What The News & Observer started a couple of years ago has a few categories that overlap jobs and departments. These include:
* Good eye -- for visuals or finding good stories
* Good ear -- for wordsmithing
* Extra effort

There is also a separate editors prize for craft. For any of these, any one can nominate. Except for the editor's prize, winners are chosen by a rotating committee of judges.

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