Building and Improving CelebrationsCelebrating achievements within an organization is of crucial importance to the morale and overall environment of the team and workplace. In order to properly motivate and inspire others to do their best, leaders must be able to recognize positive contributions and reinforce key achievements. Recognition involves recognizing good results and reinforcing positive performance (Kouzes & Posner, 2008, p. 281). It's about reinventing and fostering an environment in which every individual is celebrated for their personal contributions. To create an environment that creates a culture of celebrating personal contributions, leaders must adopt two key practices: expecting the best and personalizing recognition. (Kouzes and Posner, 2008, p. 281). These two key initiatives are essential to creating an environment of openness and appreciation of individual contributions to common goals and objectives. A leader who expects the best from his team will motivate them better and inspire them to do their best consistently. . Successful leaders demonstrate and demonstrate high expectations for themselves and their teammates (Kouzes & Posner, 2008, p. 282). They understand that to meet and exceed expectations, they must successfully communicate high potential and maintain everyone at that level of performance. A leader must also be able to bring out the best in his or her team members. All team members have potential and the leader's goal is to be able to harness this potential and recognize the skills and qualities that the team member can bring to the workplace. Leaders have a way of identifying potential and bringing it out of their team.Anot...... middle of paper ......n represents all the key areas that my organization implements in the undertaken with the aim of celebrating achievement. Company sponsored programs would be specific to birthday messages, weekly company newsletters, weekly inspirational conference calls and company awards focused on performance indicators such as sales, KPI matrices, customer service and loss prevention. As a leader, I incorporated my own incentives such as store centralization competitions, team lunches and events to recognize store performance, as well as peer recognition through verbal reinforcement and team meetings. development. All of this has greatly contributed to my ability to reinforce positive behavior and celebrate achievements with my team. ReferencesKouzes, J. & Posner, B. (2008). The challenge of leadership. (4th ed.). San Francisco, California: John Wiley & Sons, Inc...