Karin,
Really great lessons in how recognition can almost make things worse!  Reading these lessons makes me remember how I have either witnessed, or I'm embarrassed to say, done them all.  The best recognition I've given or gotten has always been from the heart.  In fact, I still have the framed advertisement that I wrote for a job fair.  It was signed by all the leaders of the group I was in.  We brought in over 500 people to a small job fair.  I was so touched when they gave me the silly little newspaper clipping in a frame.  But, it was the care and authenticity that really struck me.

Thanks again.
Anil