AWCC Categories
This practice helps break down silos by encouraging team members to seek out insights, ideas, and lessons from other teams or even outside the organization.
What is Knowledge Sharing?
A couple times a year the team gathers to share learnings from projects they have worked on. This is Michelle’s favorite meeting because it enables people who do the work to participate in knowledge sharing, and have psychological safety in sharing programs that didn’t work so well.
What is Marketing Flash?
Part performance check-in, part gratitude circle. This forum is used to track performance against targets and share results openly with the team. We also use this forum to openly express appreciation to others for their contributions.
What is a Recognition Round-up?
This was the highest ranked AWCC category for Michelle’s org from the 2024 AWCC survey results.
What is Accountability, Strategic Clarity, Bottom-Up Ideas, and Rewards & Recognition?
By openly tracking progress against meaningful performance targets, this principle motivates continuous improvement and collective ownership.
What is Performance Transparency?
This was a brand-new initiative launched by the WOW committee in spirit of Knowledge Sharing, Strategic Alignment and Top-Down Leadership, it serves as a great opportunity to hear from our leaders on their diverse skill sets.
What is an SLT Skill Share-out?
Your opportunity to sit down and have meaningful face-to-face interactions with our leaders over a hot beverage, this initiative strongly encourages knowledge sharing!
What is Coffee with SLT?
This was our lowest ranked area in the survey.
What is Knowledge Sharing & Top-Down Leadership?
Driving innovation through leadership role modeling and leader-sponsored indicatives.
What is Continuous Improvement Leadership ("Top-Down Leadership")?
This is a yearly event that provides the opportunity for us to hear from our leaders and enforce strategic clarity and performance transparency.
What is the regional offsite?
This idea-pitching forum is where leadership encourages us to try new ideas/approaches and empowers us to share bottoms-up ideas on innovation opportunities.
What is BMO's Den?
This was our employee engagement score.
What is 92%?
This happens when everyone understands how we work together to get things done. When we work as a team, we each have an opportunity to bring the best of us to what we own and learn from each other. Each of us takes personal ownership for driving results.
What is Empowerment?
Leaders have suggested and supported a way of working that is different from how things are usually done. Once a month SLT tries to clear your calendar allows you to focus on productivity, not pings.
What is a Free-to-Focus Friday?
This NEW initiative encourages the team to seek out best practices from other parts of the organization. It is your opportunity to partner with others on the NA P&BB Marketing team by raising your hand to seek and/or provide support answering questions and solving problems that come up across the team.
What is Think Tank?
These initiatives were launched in response to last year's survey.
What is SLT Skill Share-outs, Think Tank, and Guest Speakers at Townhalls?