How to Form An Excellence Committee At Work

Promoting harmony in the work place is not an easy task unless you use the right tools available. Forming an Excellence Committee is one way of achieving this goal. An Excellence Committee works with both management and labor to recognize good work by employees. It also serves to fundraise for various causes in the community. Fundraising for causes in the community is also excellent public relations for the company which reflects well on the Excellence Committee.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 3 to 4 persons from the management team
• 3 to 4 persons from the labor work force
• notebooks for each member
• pens for each member

1. Once you have a committee, meet for the first time to elect officers, such as president, vice-president and sectretary/treasurer.

2. Open a checking account at a local bank with $100 start up funds given by your company (which is never to be spent). The account should be in the name of the COMPANY Excellence Committee and requires two signatures for check cashing. Those signatures should be the president and the company's fiscal officer.

3. Set up a Charter for the committee. This can be done by checking with other companies in the area with such a committee and asking for their charter, or by establishing one of your own with the purpose, objectives and goals of the committee.

4. Meet on a monthly or bi-monthly basis to discuss and organize various fund raisers for employees to work together with the money to be given to charitable causes within the community. Also discuss ways to raise money in-house (such as a 50-50 raffle on pay days) to reward the employees for their efforts by hosting a monthly coffee and donut or free lunch.

5. Make monthly awards such as Employee of the Month, giving the person free parking for that period of time, for example, or a gift certificate for a week's free lunches at a local eatery.

6. Set up a suggestion box and reward employees who come up with new ways of making the workplace a better environment, or who have ideas which can show a profit or make a job easier for the company overall.

Tips & Warnings

• Host monthly basket raffles, and a 50-50 raffle on payday.
• Have flower sales around the holidays of Christmas and Easter.
• Flower sales in the spring and fall also go over well.
• Flag sales around June 14 (Flag Day) and July 4 (Independence Day) are great ways to raise funds for the committee.
• Remember that an Excellence Committee cannot make a profit. Keep only the funds needed for future projects in the bank and spend the rest of the funds on the employees awards, lunches, and other means of thanking them for their participation.