Reward schemes for a department

[Timja]

We have a box at work with the aim being people can fill in a form to nominate colleagues who have gone beyond their normal duties, gone the extra mile, helped others or just worked really hard and done a great job and achieved a great result.

The idea is that nominees will be reviewed monthly and the chosen winner announced and recognised in a department meeting and win a small gift (around £10 i think)

This is in a department of around 50 in a large company,

What has been happening though is that very few nominations have been made and there doesn't seem to be much interest.

Trying to think of new ideas and wondered if anyone had a similar scheme at work that is organised differently that works well? May be it is too frequent and a quarterly award would work better or its just that its low value prizes are not seemed as exciting enough, or that no one thinks anyone else deserves one! haha!

Will be asking around for ideas, but thought it would be useful to know what reward and recognition schemes you have found works - may be able to get a better budget for it so be interesting to know from a range of company sizes what you use - if you can let me know rough company/department size that may help too.

Thanks!

[Timja]

Thanks for the responses. Some useful ideas and views in there which I will put forward and several points which tie up with my thoughts. Particularly that often the quiet people who just get on with things are forgotten and having less frequently for a more meaningful perceived value/ actual night out when wife/family who have also missed out on time could benefit.

The c£10-20 value at the moment is made up of mainly corporate branded merchandise!