{"id":132,"date":"2011-12-16T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/a-good-lightweight-recognition-exercise-for-your-next-retrospective-tokens-of-appreciation\/"},"modified":"2019-02-22T09:26:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T12:26:36","slug":"a-good-lightweight-recognition-exercise-for-your-next-retrospective-tokens-of-appreciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/a-good-lightweight-recognition-exercise-for-your-next-retrospective-tokens-of-appreciation\/","title":{"rendered":"A good lightweight recognition exercise for your next Retrospective: tokens of appreciation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today I read a blog entry<\/a> which reminded me about a good lightweight exercise I have used in Agile retrospectives very for recognizing and fostering team collaboration.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It is called the token of appreciation. Here is how it works:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Bring a chocolate box to the retrospective<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Ask people to form a circle.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. You can start as a facilitator by saying: \u201cI would like to give a chocolate for NAME as a recognition on that time when he\/she helped me with\u2026<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Then you give the chocolate box to that person and ask him to repeat the gesture.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I found this exercise especially useful for end of projects or end of release exercise. The participants usually enjoy it and talk in a positive way about the good things their teammates did and how they appreciate it.<\/span><\/p>\n

    This <\/a>blog entry<\/a> about IGN<\/a> describes another implementation of the same idea: token of appreciation for for recognition. A big difference is that the tokens are not eatable and translate to money. I am interested to hear the drawbacks of this as a bonus policy and alternatives to it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Today I read a blog entry which reminded me about a good lightweight exercise I have used in Agile retrospectives very for recognizing and fostering team collaboration. It is called the token of appreciation. Here is how it works: Bring a chocolate box to the retrospective Ask people to form a circle. You can start […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1919],"tags":[774,810,688],"inception_activities":[],"colaboradores":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile-culture","tag-agile-en","tag-facilitation-en","tag-retrospective-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"inception_activities","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inception_activities?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"colaboradores","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/colaboradores?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}