Objective
A corporation with several U.S. locations wanted to enhance the team atmosphere within each territory with hopes to increase business. Managers decided to set up a friendly, competitive “race” within each location and reward employees for participation.

Strategy
Each U.S. location became a team with the goal of increasing business within their territory. The company used the acronym ‘TEAM’ - Together Everyone Achieves More - to let the employees know that the recognition program was a team effort.

As the territory goals were met, employees were rewarded. To increase awareness for the recognition program, the company gave each of the 150 employees a small Lead Crystal Iceberg. The Lead Crystal Iceberg was hand etched with the company name, and a map of the United States. Additionally, a colorfilled dot was placed on the map to represent each territory.

At the end of the year, the top performing territory was given a clear crystal Matterhorn Award that represented the perseverance it takes to reach peak performance.

Matterhorn Award - Item #5708

Lead Crystal Iceberg - Item #2014

Results
The recognition program helped the corporation increase business by 35 percent in only one year. The staff at each location formed quality relationships with each other and worked together more efficiently! Therefore, as a result of the recognition program, job satisfaction increased, employee morale was increasingly high, and of course business increased tremendously!