Celebrate your team’s success and failure with Celebration Grid
It is very important to celebrate achievements, however Management 3.0 created by Jurgen Appelo brings a complementary vision, “it is very important to celebrate learning”, that is, at work and in life we are sometimes successful and sometimes we fail, which is important is that we learn from the experiment and we can celebrate the learning.
Many companies forget the importance of recognizing the achievement of employees and mainly of understanding that a failure serves as learning for higher steps.
The Celebration Grid technique is used in teams to present the result of an experiment, regardless of whether the experiment was successful or not. In this case, we can celebrate good practices, which result from a positive result and where we can learn something from our failures.
To perform the technique it is important to use the grid presented above with the “errors”, “experiments” and “practices” divisions that represent the behaviors that can lead to success or failure.
Hand out colorful post-it notes to the team and ask each employee to put on the board what they consider to have been success or failure taking into account the following questions:
• What behaviors were successful? (Errors, experiments and practices)
• What behaviors were failures? (Errors, experiments and practices)
After the team distributes the post-it, it is possible to generate a discussion wheel for everyone to understand through the grid where they were successful and where they can improve.
The way to celebrate is at the discretion of the organizer, it can be with bells, it can be with cards from the kudo box, or even with a snack for the team.
Applying Remote Celebration Grid
To perform the remote Celebration Grid technique I used two tools, Teams to bring the team together and the ConceptBoard where I prepared the Celebration Grid so that everyone could access it.
In a meeting, I informed the objective of our dynamics, raised the projects we worked on during the period, both those that we managed to deliver successfully and those that were not delivered.
I asked each collaborator to fill in the virtual post-it identifying what were the “errors”, “experiments” and “practices” that generated success or failure for the projects worked on at that time.
After everyone filled in, we opened for discussion and each one had the opportunity to talk about what they learned and what can be improved.
At the end, i distributed an Ifood coupon to the team so that everyone can celebrate that moment with a snack each one at home, but all together virtually.
Result
The Celebration Grid provided a moment of analysis, recognition and, above all, learning. Everyone felt valued for knowing that mistakes are also part of learning, and that they do not need to feel judged for the acts that generate failure. In addition, being recognized for success was rewarding for everyone.
References
Celebration Grid: https://management30.com/practice/celebration-grids/
