Little Wins to Engage: Creating a Dynamic Workplace
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In pursuit of hitting goals, leaders may forget the need to stop to celebrate successes. This panel discusses how and why they choose to celebrate with their high-achieving staff.
Reflection Activity
- How does celebrating little wins keep the staff engaged?
- What upcoming opportunities does your team have to celebrate wins?
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I would say that I feel like everybody
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wants to be part of a winning team and
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how do you really say that so I can come
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before you guys and say oh we’re the
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best did we rock or we can show you how
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how well we’re doing so some things that
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we’ve done is apply for different awards
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that are involved in like the facilities
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world so we had a football field we were
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the only grass field left in our
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conference everybody else had gone to
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turf and so our field was pretty ratty
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and it was tough to play on and it took
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a lot of labour to keep it up but our
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guys were like you know what which lets
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beat Lambeau south so we sorry to the
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Cowboys so these don’t say sorry these
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guys on our team really rocked it out
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they they made numbers and stripes and
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all types of stuff on our football field
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they brought in a guy from Miller Park
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to give us some tips on best practices
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we got rid of some invasive species that
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were growing in there and we just put
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together an amazing field and we were
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recognized as one of the top 75 grass
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fields in the nation so that was just
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something that was so exciting and
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that’s a continuous improvement journey
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and so how do I keep engaging him that I
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always remind him of where we were so to
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bring to a staff meeting or put a
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Facebook post up look at our football
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field five years ago and the funny thing
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was I stood on their bleachers five
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years ago and took a picture of her
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field and I was like proud I’m like wow
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look at those stripes and then to see
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where we came five years later it was
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just incredible so little winds like
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that to always help them see why we’re
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doing what we’re doing because it’s a
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lot of work that goes into it and we all
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know our staffs or budgets aren’t
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getting bigger so I think Stu ters main
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goal is to create engagement and what is
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engagement it’s going above what’s
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expected so I’ll take employees that’ll
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do what’s expected but the ones that are
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putting together that an award-winning
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football field those are the ones that
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are creating a dynamic place to work and
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to educate Jeremih hit on something to
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the celebration part every summer next
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week we’re planning our annual
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celebration so what we do is our whole
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staff even our seasonal workers they
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work hard this summer also we bring them
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together at the high school have a pizza
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party we go over our scorecard where we
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were where we were we results for the
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year where we want to go this next year
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so we do that every year
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just to kind of keep them in front of
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all this what’s going on and how we like
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Jeremiah also touched on where we came
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from where we are now that’s that’s
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important the the guy that helped
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spearhead the football field restoration
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I was talking about he was a custodian
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second shift and so we made a shift to
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save some money and have this guy be our
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groundskeeper and the school board said
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to me when we took him on you’re not
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gonna put a custodian on a lawn mower
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and make a great football field so that
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was a great story to come back to and so
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I actually had that guy present at the
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board meeting where we were giving our
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annual update and it was cool to show
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off the field but it was really cool to
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hear him say he said if I can make a
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difference in the kids that are playing
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footballs experience about football that
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might lead them to get a scholarship or
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be more engaged that’s what I’m in it
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for so he could be talking about how
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cool the field is but he was bringing it
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back to the students and it was great to
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see somebody that was cleaning toilets a
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couple years earlier
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getting some pretty cool recognition
