ANST - Too Many Awards, Too Fast

[Lee Lemons]

One more thing to consider - when people recieve awards too quickly, sometimes
that means that they, not through any doing of their own, have received some of
those awards before they really, totally earned them.  I've known a few
individuals who felt badly, who felt guilty, upon receiving an award too early.
They knew it was not right, everyone else knew it wasn't right, but because one
or more individuals wrote glowing award recommendations, the award was granted.
It is a horrible feeling to get an award and just have that gut feeling that it
was just too early for it.

Just another perspective to consider when thinking of sending in an award
recommendation.

Curstaidh



C. L. Ward wrote:

> Bjorn Lochlannac <bjorn at odsy.net> said:
> >Justg wanted to let you know that I agree with you 100%.
> >There is nothing to make a person "burn out" faster than
> > feeling taken for granted.
>
> and Faith Vedder wrote:
> >> And if they get no encouragement they will burn out and leave as well.
> It's a
> >> fine line.
>
> But as several people have already pointed out, you DON"T have to give
> awards to acknowledge peoples' hard work and effort. Public recognition,
> word fame, a small gift in court from the local noble, all of these work
> equally well as an award.  They are in fact more welcome many times than an
> award.
>
> Sure, we could lump all the awards onto a person in no time at all.  Have
> you noticed that once a person is a peer or a noble they mostly don't GET
> any more awards?  Or if they do, they are few and far between?
>
> Now think -- you've rushed this person through getting this stack of
> awards, not taking any account of timing between the awards.  Then they hit
> this brick wall after which they won't get much of anything else.  How will
> that feel to the person who is used to measuring their acceptance within
> the group and achievement by getting a cookie every few months?
>
> It's also important to recognize that not everyone gets awards in the
> Society.  I've seen it stated before that many people never get more than
> an AoA.  So how do *those* people feel when they see Lord On-the-Fast-Track
> getting umpty awards all the time?
>
> Another point to consider -- maturity and behavior aren't closely evaluated
> for many of our awards, but they become critical factors in whether or not
> a person will get a Peerage, or one of the grant-level awards where the
> members of that order are polled (White Scarves and Centurions).  It
> normally takes most people a few years in the Society to develop the
> maturity and understanding about how the group works that would allow them
> to be considered for one of these awards.  What happens when a person racks
> up all the awards short of the peerage, then  --- nothing?  And that person
> won't get the peerage *until* the maturity develops -- but since they don't
> have the maturity, what typically happens is that person gets frantic and
> pissed off because they aren't getting the peerage when they think that
> they should, then they do dumb things that come back to the ears of the
> Circle, and that delays the peerage further.  Had the person's earlier
> awards been spaced out further, by the time they were looking at a peerage
> as the next step, the maturity would be there, too.
>
> I think it's critically important to recognize people for the work they do
> -- by giving them praise and gifts.  And I think it's important to give
> people awards, but to space them out as well.
>
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>
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>
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