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Anyone for 'Prosecco Friday'?

Sean Fitzgerald

How do you celebrate success and individuality?


A recent conversation took me back to my time leading my corporate team in Waitrose, when we celebrated with what became known as ‘Prosecco Friday’! 


The person I was talking to was telling me how they celebrate success with their team. It was an enjoyable discussion with some good ideas and certainly would get their team focused on achieving and recognising their results.


So, a bit more about ‘Prosecco Friday’. It wasn’t a weekly occurrence but they did seem to happen quite often! To be clear, my team often decided the reason, rather than myself and I was invited to attend and sometimes say a few words. 


Reasons were varied, it could be celebrating commercial success but often it was about celebrating individuals. It could be  one of the team celebrating a big birthday or life event,  someone moving to a new location with a promotion or even somebody leaving the team to go and work for another business.


People came together for a glass of fizz, or juice, and maybe a slice of cake to not only celebrate the individual for whom we had gathered but it also provided an opportunity to reflect on the successes of the team and how they had worked together. 15/20 minutes that never featured in any productivity guide but seemed to pay back in many ways for team morale and motivation. It wasn’t always a Friday either but let’s not get into that now…!


It never featured in any employee satisfaction survey and was just something we did but I like to think these moments of acknowledgement and recognition did help my store being recognised within the John Lewis Partnership as outstanding “North Star” for employee engagement. It also supported our “great place to work, great place to shop’ ethos whilst consistently producing company leading profits.



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