How do you announce your teammate's accomplishment to your team?
Jin Kwon
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For example, our team has #high_five channel in Slack. We are using this channel to share our teammates' accomplishments with the team. However, this is a kind of disappearing information that isn't archived permanently.
I wonder if you know another way to share and archive someone's achievement.
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Joanfihu@joanfihu
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The "Feedback and Recognition" section of this blog post is relevant:
https://larahogan.me/blog/first-...
> "knowing how someone wants to receive recognition helps to ensure they’re able to enjoy the moment rather than feel really uncomfortable"
We highlight an employee of the week every Friday. That person then gets to nominate the next employee and share their accomplishments to the team.
@azakharov Oh that's really nice. I love how your team does. Thanks for sharing your story!
We @nimblechapps usually don't announce it to our teammates but the person himself/herself announces it. So, what we do is we send out a hamper to their home and in most cases, it gets proliferated via word of mouth and we have found that working out best actually.
eg. Look at this post
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/r...
The Green Book Project
Oh I love this! @ylowe created a #high_fives channel for us as well @ The Green Book Project. It's been a really great place to show appreciation for each other and recognize people's accomplishments.
We also make use of "brag books" to keep track of what things people have accomplished but this is more for future performance reviews rather than anything else
@deeblekpantha Thank you for sharing your story, Christian. Do you have ideas how to use the brag books in the future? For example, my team consists of juniors, so their roles and responsibilities are very limited for now. I'm planning to give them more, and I think additional information outside of work should be needed like books they read and career path they are interested in.
Plus, I wonder how you archive the accomplishments? Are "brag books" a software or a real books?
The Green Book Project
@jin_kwon Hi Absolutely!
And for us we simply use Notion docs with databases to keep track of the accomplishments. We'll typically have each teammate write down the description of what they accomplished, when it happened, and relevant materials to their accomplishment (i.e. Jira tickets, Github PR's, social media posts, etc.)
We're not overly strict with what people put in their brag books as long as they can point to something concrete that "shows their work."
@deeblekpantha Thanks for sharing your story. This is really amazing!
We use a platform called award to give shoutouts
@brennen_barney Thanks for sharing your case. could you please share the url, so I try it?
We have a Retro (video meeting) every Friday where our team briefly talks about their wins, losses/learns, and shout-outs to fellow team members for the week. It will likely get harder to do as our team grows but has been an effective way to encourage our team members to self-promote and encourage/ credit one another for good work. We also ask team members to submit this in the Standup and Prosper bot on Slack so it's tracked in a place that doesn't disappear/ can always be easily accessed!
@tori_lazar1 Thank you Tori! I wonder how satisfied you are with the Standup and Prosper? Does your team go back to Standup and Prosper at the team level?
@jin_kwon we do! it's most helpful for the management team because prior to our monthly 1:1s with our direct reports we can look back at their answers to the Retro prompts each week in that period of time. For now, Standup and Prosper, gets the job done but it's definitely not an ideal solution and we're always looking for better options.
The Green Book Project
As @deeblekpantha mentioned, I created a #high_five channel in Slack, and I created Brag books in Notion.
The way I keep the acknowledgements from 'disappearing' is I used Zapier to create integrations from Slack to a Notion database table.
Whenever anyone sends a #high_five, it automatically populates in a Notion doc. We ask our team to use this table to keep track of all their #high_fives and add them to their Brag Books for future performance reviews.
I archive the Notion database every quarter, but everyone can still access past #high_fives.
@deeblekpantha @ylowe That's so creative way! Thanks for sharing this idea!
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At PH, we use https://lattice.com/ and have linked its bot to our kudos channel on slack so that it is synced. It persists the information on the platform.
@bchhabra2491 it looks interesting. What I thought is something like this! I have the same question with Mike. Don't you go back to the data at the organizational level? I wonder if you have a idea/plan to apply this data at the team/organization level.
@bchhabra2491 , is that data something your teams ever go back to? Either at the team or the organizational level?
Product Hunt
@mike_nash1 At the individual level, you can go back to it and see your kudos, say, at the end of the year.
@bchhabra2491 Thank you!
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'disappearing information' is a good description for it today. We've experienced the same problem - slack channels or email updates make these feel less like actual accomplishments and more like noise that diminishes the intention.
We're getting ready to launch a team operations platform that moves this into a localized team space with permanence and history, along with all the other things teams struggle with to maintain connection and engagement. Happy to discuss @jin_kwon if curious.
@mike_nash1 https://trelliswork.com/ is it your website? I wonder if there's additional materials to know more about your platform.
I agree with your thought. More and more people think achievement shoutouts are noise...
@jin_kwon yes, that's us @ https://trelliswork.com - website will be updated with some more information soon, approaching our initial design partner launch in a couple weeks. More on the way!
@mike_nash1 That's awesome! Can't wait!
Castofly
Funny / memorable badges on either corporate website (internal) or Github.
Good old email to the rescue..:) Don’t get me wrong, we love slack! But there are few things which are also done well with email..for both easier access and book keeping.
Something like a Sprint Hero, or Hero of the month recognition can be sent out to the entire team, the votes or nomination’s for it can be done via slack or any tool used internally.
This also encourages others to participate and you can tie nice rewards and badges to promote it more!