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I don't think this would work too well. For me at least, praise in the form of small gifts is not that worthwhile. I would much rather get honest direct feedb
by lukesandberg 16y ago
I don't think this would work too well. For me at least, praise in the form of small gifts is not that worthwhile. I would much rather get honest direct feedback in the form of a conversation than an email with a link to 20 dollars of at applebees. (I mean the giftcard would be nice but it would feel belittling without the personal interaction)
I think there's a joel spolsky article on inc.com about this, intrinsic vs. Extrinsic motivation.
- callmeed 16y agoGifts aren't the end-game in my mind–sorry if I gave that impression. I think the value is simply knowing that other people notice your work, trickling that praise up to management, and making it super-simple to submit such praise. It would still be up to managers to look at the praise and do the right thing after.
- lukesandberg 16y agoyeah, ok. However, if thats the case then it already is super simple to submit the praise...walk over to their desk/call them/ping them/email them...
- mr_november 16y agoBut your super simple methods fail to further a culture of feedback. If there is a central place where all employees can see positive feedback given to each other, it encourages everyone to continue giving this short notes of encouragement/thanks which keeps morales high (hopefully). I'm not sure if having a central repository of feedback is really what callmeed was getting at but it's what I've built with my small app so this was my line of thinking.