Leadership Tips & Training Victory Celebration Award Idea

Beverly Henson, networking leader and personal trainer from Meridian, MS sent in a great idea for a victory celebration award.

For your fitness award (or in my case I am using them for all of my awards) purchase free weights. They also make great paper weights for your desk and a good conversation piece to get a First Place conversation going at work.

You can find them at Wal-Mart for about $2.00 in the sporting goods department. You can get 5 pound Athletic Works HEX weights. They are just gray generic weights. Go to the paint department and get either krylon or rustoleum metallic paint. It comes in gold, chrome for silver, brass, or bronze. Spray paint your weights: Gold for first place, silver for second place and bronze or brass for third place. Tie a little bow or something decorative on the weight and BAM you have a neat fitness award!

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Beverly Henson
Meridian, Mississippi 

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Nancy Taylor is the First Place Leadership Training Director and joined the First Place staff in 1997. Nancy teaches leadership principles to First Place Leaders throughout the country and at Houston's First Baptist Church where she coordinates all the First Place groups. . Nancy also speaks at First Place workshops, rallies, retreats, and conferences, where she delights her audiences with humor and encourages them with boldness. She writes a monthly article, which includes helpful tips for leaders, for the First Place E-newsletter, and was a contributing writer to the Today is the First Day devotional book. Nancy is the resident First Place Bible Concordance because of her love for Scripture memory.