One of the things that came out of our internal hack days was a Bravo! system within our intranet. People could tag co-workers with a Bravo badge that basically said they did a good job on something. For instance, the “Delight” Bravo can be given to someone that’s had a really good experience with users, or partners, or even co-workers.
I use it to play some social games, trying to Bravo the people that I think will feel guilty enough and Bravo me back. I’m not that successful.
The other thing that came to mind was the sarcastic Bravo. There are some people that rub me the wrong way, or maybe it’s the other way around. Either way, I’ve thought about giving them a sarcastic Bravo, but so far, I haven’t been drinking enough to actually do that yet. Though thinking about it now, it might help a relationship or two. But that’s a big might.
Then today, I was going through the list again, looking to give an honest Bravo when one of the titles stuck out to me. They switch up a few titles every few months to keep it fresh and so some people can have some “classic” Bravos.
But this one Bravo stood out to me, and I thought it’d be nice to give one of these Bravos to a co-worker. It fell into a new class of Bravo – not honest, not sarcastic, but one that was best without a caption or any descriptive text. And then I started to wonder how well I could play innocent during the conversation with HR…
