Spot has become quite the icon around Baudville. Not only is he hard at work in the Sales Suite, but he's also one of the best traveled members of the Baudville team. We've been having fun taking pictures of Spot in all his travels: Mall of America, Florida, New Orleans, and lately Italy! The pictures of traveling Spot are fun for the whole team and add a little extra positive mojo to our day.

The traveling Spot is a great way to add some fun and interest to your peer recognition program, too. In the Spot On Recognition Program, an employee is awarded Spot for meeting certain program criteria, such as receiving the most tokens or ballots over a certain period of time. While Spot is in the employee's possession, encourage him or her to take Spot home and snap a few pictures of Spot with the family dog, Spot watching the big game or Spot participating in a favorite weekend hobby. Post the pictures internally and on Spot On's Facebook page.

The traveling Spot will help your employees to grow closer as a team as they learn more about their peers. Peer recognition is about encouraging behaviors and building relationships. When you add this interactive element to your recognition program, you'll quickly see the positive impact it can have!

Spot the Gladiator in Italy!!!

Spot has been running successfully in the Sales Suite at Baudville, and it’s thanks to thorough peer training. Instead of having our staff sit in a conference room and listen to a manager talk at them, we thought a peer-to-peer training session would be perfect to get our peer-to-peer recognition program off the ground.

I purposely paired people who did not usually work together to help build that team atmosphere and made a schedule for our staff. Each employee was assigned a 30 minute interval: the first 15 minutes, an employee was trained on the program; the second 15 minutes they trained a peer. The training was well received by employees. People love to interact and learn on their own in small groups, and it's less intimidating than a large group.

We set up the training area and dubbed it the "Dog House." We displayed all of the Spot On products, included a training checklist and made sure the computer was connected to spotonbaudville.com. We expected our employees to have lots of great ideas for Spot during the training, so they were asked to write down all their ideas. We'll share those ideas soon!

A peer-to-peer recognition program can only be successful when all the participating employees understand the who, what, why and how. Whether you choose to follow our peer-to-peer training model or create your own, make sure you answer these questions for flawless program implementation!

Who can I recognize?

What do I recognize with?

Why are we recognizing peers?

How do I do effective recognition?

The Spot On Dog House Training Area

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Brenda and Cori are co-authors of the Spot On blog. They have nearly 10 combined years at Baudville! Brenda is the Customer Service Supervisor at Baudville and is using the Spot On peer recognition program with her team. Cori is a Certified Recognition Professional and also contributes her recognition expertise to the Baudville blog and Twitter.

Spot On is a new employee recognition program created by Baudville. The program is centered around peer recognition, and requires a high level of involvement from the entire team. The day-to-day recognition strategy and team involvement will have a greater impact on your culture than other recognition programs that only allow managers to recognize once a month or less.

In addition to the complete recognition program, we're dedicated to bringing you resources to help your recognition program be a continual success. This blog will bring you ideas to energize your team about Spot, different Spot applications and case studies of Spot in action.

We didn't just create Spot On, we're also using it. Our Sales Suite is launch its own Spot On program next week. Continue to check Spot's blog for updates about the program, its challenges, successes and new ideas. And don't hesitate to share a few of your own ideas! Here are a few ways to get involved with other Spot users:

• Become a fan on Facebook to share your pictures of Spot and follow Spot on his travels!
• Need help setting up your program? Looking for some ideas? Want to share a best practice? Email our Spot On expert at spoton@baudville.com.
• Let us know what you think right away! Post a comment on this blog. We'll respond to every comment we receive.