# Kudo Cards
By using Kudo Cards, people can express their gratitude very easily. Kudo Cards are a written and publicly recognize a colleague for something he/she has contributed to the team. The cards can be given cross through organizations, teams and departments. It is a transparent manner to mitigate hierarchical barriers and to encourage everyone to offer open feedback and to publicly show appreciation.
# Subject
Empower people/Appreciation
# Motivation
Kudo Cards are simple instruments to break the traditional hierarchical organizational systems. Receiving a Kudo Card can highly motivate and show appreciation. Studies have revealed that people are substantially more motivated by receiving an honest 'thank you' than a financial reward.
# Procedure
Order the Kudo Cards from the Management 3.0 website and put them on a free place within the team's space/organization, so that everyone can access them. The cards are categorized and can be written by anyone at any time. It's also nice to find a wall – the Kudo wall – where people can stick their received cards, in order to make them public and spread the 'appreciation–virus' through the entire organization.
# Facilitator
Agile coach/agile master
# Participants
The entire organization, agile teams, stakeholders, any department
# Results
Open feedback and shown appreciation
# Tools
kudo cards, a free wall within the working area/open space /whiteboard