What's the TakeLessons Nutty Award?

Here at the TakeLessons office, we believe in working hard. At the end of the week, we celebrate with a Friday get-together we call the “Meeting of the Minds”. During the meeting, we may have a soda, glass of wine, or a fine Trader Joe’s dark lager, and we brainstorm on how we can make the business better.

One of our core values is an “Ownership Mentality“. What that means is that each team member is personally responsible to the rest of the team to think and act like an owner. We all have stock in the company, so our actions should be that of a business leader.

Each week, all of the team members takes the floor and describes what they got done during the week and what they learned. They are accountable to the rest of the team for hitting their goals and learning something new. Each team member also gives a shout-out to the person in the office that made the biggest impact that week, or that personally helped them accomplish a goal.

After all team members have spoken, we then vote – “Survivor” style – for the team member who had the greatest impact on the company that week. That person wins “The Nutty Award”.

The Nutty Award is in recognition of the person who makes the most significant impact on the goals of the company, and demonstrates the core values of what we believe in. We don’t have certificates or cash prizes (we’re a start-up), but we do have a really cool (empty) bottle of tequila that Felipe’s dad was kind enough to donate to us a long time ago. The award was named after our mascot and fearless tennis ball chaser, Nutty FaDuddy.