Motivating Change Behavior of My Team with a Glue Gun

The things I do to promote the use of SharePoint in our T&D development...

involve a glue gun. ????

I enacted a quasi award process when I first came on board because I had absolutely no influence tricks up my sleeves being the new kid.  No one trusted me, thought all my new *fangled* ideas were whipper snapper blithery doo, and were thoroughly resistant to me trying to nudge them into using the SharePoint portal sites I lovingly built for them.  Since throwing dollar bills at them every time they look at a site isn't economically feasible I had to come up with a different way.

So, Crafty Geek Girl to the rescue - Here is the program announcement approx 6 months after implementation, just prior to being blended with two other teams together (yes, stressful time - a lot of unknowns, speculation, and worry, so some fun was needed to shake things up).

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Hi Soon to Be Blended Team –

It has been a *long* standing tradition on the *** team to promote the use of SharePoint in the workplace by offering up a reward for various behaviors  –

This lovely trophy:

Since the inception of this award process, I have been grilled extensively about the criteria one needs to exhibit to acquire this award as I am the *only* judge.  It usually goes like this:

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• ·         You do something in SharePoint you haven’t done before and come running up to me to tell me about since it’s all I talk about.
• ·         You ask me a question about SharePoint because you want to do something really cool with it and you learn something that you tell me you don’t know how you lived without it for so long.
• ·         I run a contest and you are picked as the winner of that contest – past contests include finding an Easter Egg, creating One Note Shared Notebooks, Creating Lists, Being the first to post to a discussion board and other worthy topics.
• ·         Or you just randomly mention the word SharePoint to me and I have the award in my hand.  (just kidding)

So in the spirit of inclusion, I have picked the first winner of the excellent, stupendous, glorious SharePoint award for 2010:

******** – for searching out answers on the new SharePoint training site and mentioning that he read my blog post. (See, a bit of pandering to my “Do I have an audience” psyche issues always helps)

Here he is with his award (sorry for the fuzzy pic):

And here it is perched rightfully amongst his most precious cubicle decorations (he said something about a Microstrategy Attribute Helmet, someone needs to ‘splain this one to me)

So, there you go.  If you want to win this beauteous award, get all geeky with SharePoint and tell me about it.  Ways to do that can be found on the SharePoint training site or you can put an RSS feed on your MySite of the blog posts I randomly write.

My work is done!  Made a new team member feel all warm and fuzzy about SharePoint, joining teams, and potentially working with crazy ole' little me.