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Regular appreciation rounds
To create recurring opportunities for team members to express appreciation for each other. Include a brief appreciation round in regular team meetings: each person has the opportunity (not requirement) to acknowledge something a colleague has done that they appreciate, kept brief and specific. An ongoing team scaffold (meeting element), run weekly or biweekly, not as a one-off session.
Practical
- Time
- 5-15 min
- Group
- 3–20 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- None beyond ordinary meeting/work settings
- Mechanisms
- life-embedding, dialogic-encounter, cognitive-reframing
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice (Weekly or biweekly)
Origin & where it lives
Thomas Jordan & Claude [AI] (IDG for Teams handbook — team scaffold) — IDG practice (idg.thomasjordan.se)
Instructions: open online
In this directory via Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
Team leader role (Jordan): Model by regularly offering specific appreciations yourself. Ensure the practice continues consistently. Notice if certain team members rarely receive appreciation and find genuine reasons to recognize them.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25