Meeting Rooms and Recognition

In most companies, you will notice that meeting rooms/conference rooms are named after countries, mountains, rivers, world famous personalities etc. The management and the facilities spend reasonable time in selecting the names/theme for the rooms.

During a visit to a large global organization a few weeks ago, I noticed something quite creative. Our meeting was in a room called “The Aditya Gupta” meeting room – Below the room name, they had Aditya Gupta’s photograph, a small write-up on Aditya Gupta’s profile, the work he had done for the company and why the room was named after him for the 6 month period, Jan to Jun 2011 – for an innovation he had delivered.

I learnt later that Aditya Gupta was a junior employee in the organization and as part of one of their recognition programs, the award was a framed certificate, a cash award of Rs. 5,000 and a meeting room named after him for 6 months. What a fantastic, low cost and highly effective way to recognize the employee.