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JOINT MULTINATIONAL READINESS CENTER, Germany -- John Sturtz, right, the director of Public Works for U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria, introduces assembled employees of the Directorate of Public Works at Hohenfels, Germany Feb. 28, 2023 to the "Pay it Forward" program, a monthly incentive program where a recipient in one of the garrison's community picks the next month's recipient. The first awardee in the Hohenfels community was Klaus-Dieter Meyer with the Operations and Maintenance division. (U.S. Army photo by Bryan Gatchell, USAG Bavaria Public Affairs)
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JOINT MULTINATIONAL READINESS CENTER, Germany -- John Sturtz, left, the director of Public Works, and Bernd Weber, right, the deputy director of Public Works at Hohenfels, present a check to Klaus-Dieter Meyer, center, a member of the Hohenfels Operations and Maintenance division, Feb. 28, 2023 at a communal room at Hohenfels, Germany. Meyer is the first recipient in the "Pay it Forward" program at Hohenfels, a monthly incentive program in which the recipient picks the next month's recipient. (U.S. Army photo by Bryan Gatchell, USAG Bavaria Public Affairs)
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JOINT MULTINATIONAL READINESS CENTER, Germany -- John Sturtz, the director of Public Works at U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria, presents a novelty check to Klaus-Dieter Meyer, a member of Hohenfels's Operations and Maintenance division, Feb. 28, 2023 at a DPW communal room. Meyer is the first recipient of USAG Bavaria's "Pay it Forward" program, a monthly incentive program in which the recipient picks a hard-working fellow employee as next month's recipient. (U.S. Army photo by Bryan Gatchell, USAG Bavaria Public Affairs)
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JOINT MULTINATIONAL READINESS CENTER, Germany -- Members of the U.S. Army Garrison Directorate of Public Works applaud Klaus-Dieter Meyer, third from right, as the first recipient at Hohenfels, Germany of DPW's "Pay it Forward" program Feb. 28, 2023. Pay it Forward is a monthly incentive program where the recipient chooses a fellow hard-working employee as the next month's recipient. (U.S. Army photo by Bryan Gatchell, USAG Bavaria Public Affairs)
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JOINT MULTINATIONAL READINESS CENTER, Germany -- From left, John Sturtz, the director of Public Works for U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria, and Bernd Weber, the Hohenfels deputy director of Public Works, describe DPW's "Pay it Forward" incentive program next to Klaus-Dieter Meyer, a technician with DPW's Operations and Maintenance division and Hohenfels first recipient in the program. Meyer's task as recipient will be to choose a fellow DPW employee who embodies an industrious work ethic. (U.S. Army photo by Bryan Gatchell, USAG Bavaria Public Affairs)
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JOINT MULTINATIONAL READINESS CENTER, Germany – Across U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria, the Directorate of Public Works has found a new way to recognize talent within its workforce, notably by having talent recognize talent.
At each of the four main communities that compose the garrison recently, DPW leadership awarded a novelty check to one outstanding worker, who would then go on to find another worthy coworker to award the check.
And then that recipient would recognize the next, and so on.
With some leadership oversight, the incentive program would from then on be largely in the hands of the workforce whom it is recognizing, according to John Sturtz, chief of Public Works for the garrison, who called it grassroots peer recognition.
“The whole idea of them rewarding and recognizing their peers is a very powerful idea,” he said.
Romina Horvath, who works with the Business Operation and Integration division at Tower Barracks at Grafenwöhr, was the first recipient Feb. 24. DPW then recognized Andreas Strobl, with the Operations and Maintenance division at Garmisch Feb. 27. They awarded the giant novelty check to Klaus-Dieter Meyer with Operations and Maintenance division at JMRC at Hohenfels Feb. 28. And they finished off the first round with Alexander Heins with Utilities at Rose Barracks at Vilseck March 1.
When Sturtz and Bernd Weber, deputy director of Public Works at Hohenfels, awarded the check to Meyer at a Public Works communal room at Hohenfels, and he explained the program to the assembled members of the workforce.
“This program we call ‘Pay-it-Forward,’” Sturtz said. “Somebody in this room, Mr. Weber picked as the very first recipient here in Hohenfels. Now, most employee-of-the-month program, Mr. Weber picks. This is not like that at all. So, when we give this award to this person, there are two things that have to happen. He is going to get this giant check, and he can display it wherever he wants.
“And he has to pick somebody in another division that he thinks is a hard worker and should be the selection for March,” Sturtz continued. “I don’t pick; Mr. Weber doesn’t pick; Klaus will decide.”
And thus, Meyer was announced as that month’s recipient as his peers applauded him.
“So you have a lot of responsibility to pick somebody who is a hard worker,” continued Sturtz to Meyer. “So, congratulations again, and thank you for all your hard work.”
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