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Giving Credit and Showing Appreciation

Giving credit and showing appreciation, especially across organizational boundaries, will go a long way toward building relationships and increasing cooperation, morale and productivity. Praise and recognition will motivate individuals to put forth their best effort; these rewards are often an incentive for members to persevere and commit to their goals.

Communicate members’ achievements to all parties involved. This will not only gratify the individual, but it will increase communication and awareness on behalf of the whole collaboration. After all, the collaborating organizations are expected to better achieve the goal together than any of the individual organizations could do alone.

Considerations for How to Give Credit

Openly thanking individuals for their work during meetings and in emails.
Including an acknowledgements section when writing a report or giving a presentation.
Giving annual recognition at a collaboration social event.

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