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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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How do you celebrate work milestones?
DH wants to celebrate his team reaching a major milestone - they have just signed on their 100th client. He wants to do something special at work for his team to mark the occasion, but doesn't have a clue of how to do it. When they reached 50 clients, he bought gold balloons and put them on the chairs of all the employees on his team and got a cake saying "_Project Name_ turns 50!" It was a big hit and the team liked the attention of the balloons (amazing how much a balloon can do for 30-40-somethings!) He wants to do something different this time. Do the all-knowing and creative nesties have any ideas? I think he'd be willing to spend up to $200.
Re: How do you celebrate work milestones?
order 100 cookies from Tiff's and have milk & cookies one afternoon?
how many people are on the team? could he buy everyone lunch? a small gift card for everyone?
I used to work at a company that was all about work milestones, and some of the things they did included:
*a company-wide awards lunch where they gave out trophies (in your DH's case, maybe a cupcake party where the team members are recognized w/ trophies in front of the group?)
*t-shirts/denim shirts/golf shirts with the accomplishment or event on them (yep, denim shirts. it was 10 years ago!) and everyone wore the shirts on a designated day (in our case, a casual friday) and were treated to lunch
HTH!
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Something that I did was buy Fish from the FISH philosphy. I got 4 for like $12? My team loved it!! We had one of the fish we passed around and awarded to a new person each week. He had pictures taken all aruond the city.
Married and it feels so good!
Guava, I had two denim shirts, from two different companies, hanging in my closet until I did a big purge last October...
A long-sleeved and a short-sleeved one, of course.
My idea: special t-shirts for the team in question, along with an email to the whole company describing how proud the company is of the team's efforts, to be celebrated with a cupcake party at 2 pm, etc. Shirts = visibility, email = explanation, cupcakes = reward and maybe encouragement for other teams to make an effort, if nothing else, to see what kind of creative reward will be conjured up next time.
I know we did some cool stuff in the past, but it is all escaping me right now.