Recognition And Varying Experiences

Please tell us of a situation on campus or at your workplace, in your community, sports club or even in your family about how you or the organization recognize extraordinary accomplishments? How are values and victories celebrated? How effective are the recognition and celebration experiences? What ideas do you have about making improvements?

During my years working with Bank of America, I enjoyed being the recipient of countless awards. Every department has a reward program in place and as a company there are universal awards. As a former associate, I can tell you, we were valued and our victories were celebrated with awards. Awards such as, platinum, gold, and silver club; top dog award, top performer, perfect attendance, milestones recognition,

I recall opting out of three luxury dinner celebrations, because I was tired of attending, and would have rather monetary recognition instead; especially, the fact that yearly increase was place on hold. Over the years, we noticed new leadership has been cutting back on spending; evidently, the quality of the certificates, were changed. Associates started feeling worthless and spoke out, we demand the marketing team to adjust and improve the process. Also, the dinner celebration usually take place when banking centers were experiencing staffing issues and the awardees had to work; consequently, awardees either miss the celebration or arrive late. For that reason, we spoke out and improvement was

During the Iraq and Afghanistan invasion, while serving as a truck driver in the U.S. Army transportation unit, I volunteered on numerous missions and supported various units with the deployment and redeployment of troops and supplies. As a result, the day I was schedule to collect my ‘Soldier of the Month’ and ‘High Mileage’ awards, the same day the one star General from the Calvary division decided to award me with a coin for supporting his division during wartime, which is public “demonstration of appreciation” (Kouzes & Posner, 2017, p. 285). Why is it memorable? I wanted to be at both locations; however, the General rank is higher; hence, I was in attendance to collect this highly important coin, while at the other location, they called my name and my Sergeant went and collected my awards and told them why I wasn’t there, “celebrating accomplishments in public” (Kouzes & Posner, 2017, p. 275). As I rushed to meet my team, hoping to make it to collect the other awards; unfortunately, it was over and I was greeted at the door by my colleagues, who cheered, praising me for my accomplishment and uttered what my Sergeant said on stage about my absence. Trust me, in the military that’s a big