How do you make the environment in your business conducive to team building?
In the past this was often done with merit pay raises, employee of the month awards and other performance based incentives and gifts. Many businesses that are interested in team building today are finding that these approaches do not work as well as they would like nor do employees respond in a generally favorable manner.
For instance if you have an employee that gives his or her all and they are routinely named Employee of the Month you may find fewer and fewer people working as hard because they know they dont really stand a chance and they just dont feel it is worth the effort. The end result is less output from the majority of your team and your Employee of the Month cant make up the difference no matter how hard they work.
Please dont think that I am opposed to gifts based on merit, but team leaders should work to make the merit system based on improved personal performance and let the rewards be presented personally and without making it something that is publicly lauded. There may be a time and place for this type of public gesture, but these individual gifts of appreciation...
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