Recognizing and Rewarding Innovative Performance

Why:

• Recognition reinforces positive behavior that leads to achieving great things

How (examples from NASA):

• Implement formal rewards and recognition programs
• Find ways to recognize and reward desired ways of working and desired behavior while the work is happening, as opposed to after it has been completed. Such desired traits include creativity, innovation, collaboration, teamwork
• Highlight employees and their work: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/about/people/index.html\#.U9gNbahEx4W