Provide regular thank you’s that are specific to what the individual or team did to recieve the special recognition. If you can allow them to accumulate their Dave Bucks or whatever name you want to put on them, you will encourage goal setting and start to focus your entire team on what is most important.

The best part is you start to get everyone looking at what is working and how to improve on those things that are not. See if you can get other managers to join in to recognize your team mates by giving then specific feedback or even where they let you know what a great job they did so you can hand out the recognition and mini team meetings. You can create the WOW factor.