Trophy or Medal, which is better for a corporate achiever?

 Trophy or Medal, which is better for a corporate achiever?

Whether it is a trophy or a medal, it is basically a form of an award and an award is simply a prize or the recognition which is offered in the honor of someone’s achievements. However, there are many kinds of awards like wooden awards, acrylic, or crystal awards, but in the following write-up, we are going to just concentrate on the trophy and medal awards only.

Well, both the trophies and medals may not have many monetary values but the pride they give the person who receives them is priceless. Well, here the topic of our discussion is, whether a trophy or a medal is better for corporate achievers. But, before diving into the discussion, let us first discuss more a trophy and a medal.

·       Trophy –

The trophy basically looks like a cup which is a decorative object awarded as a prize for a victory or success that has been recorded either in a tournament or in any sort of competition. Hence, a trophy serves as a token of victory. However, trophies are generally used in the sports such as:

·         Football,

·         Basket ball,

·         Handball, and

·         Inter-house sports tournaments etc.

 

Well, trophies can be created in gold, silver and bronze by an Awards & Trophies Manufacturer. However, in most cases, you will find the trophies in gold color, especially the ones which are readily available.

 

The first position winner is awarded with a big size trophy, the person on second position is awarded with a medium sized trophy and similarly the person on third position receives a small trophy. However, whatever the size of the trophy may be, it is undoubtedly is a great tool for promoting excellence in competitions.

Types of Trophies –

Well, there are varieties of trophies that are available in the market. First ones are the permanently closed trophies that you simply can’t open the cover of. These kinds of trophies also have big, medium and small sizes and they are very much affordable. In these trophies, you may find some exceptionally big trophies as well which have a space for logo printing and more.

·         Medal –

Medal is basically a metal object that usually has a commemorative purpose but it is also given as an award. In most cases, a medal goes together with the trophy and it is most common during the football competition or in some kind of school inter-house sports. Well, in general cases, in a competition like football or inter-house sports, all the other participants receive medals but only the winning team receives both trophies and medals.

Types of Medals –

There are 3 major types of medals which are named a Gold Medals, Silver Medals and Bronze Models, let’s have a look further…

1.      Gold Medal

Gold medal is a gold casted metal that comes with different colors of ribbon and this gold medal is more preferable for the winners of a competition. Hence, it generally stands for the first position whereas silver stands for second position and similarly bronze stands for third position.

2.      Silver Medal

Silver medal is the silver casted metal which also comes with different colors of rope or ribbon. Well, this rope or ribbon is long enough that it could fit in to any size of the human head. The silver medal is mostly made for the first runner up or for the player on second position of any tournament.

3.      Bronze Medal

Going with its name, bronze medal comes in bronze color and is made up of bronze casted metal. However, bronze medal is specifically designed for the second runner up or the player who comes at third position in any tournament. Just like gold and silver medal, this medal also comes in different designs or colors of ribbons.

But which is better for rewarding the people within a Corporate?

Well, both the trophies and medals serve as great motivating and uniting factors in any sort of competition or tournament because just as we discussed above, they promote healthy competition. In fact, these awards also challenge the players for great and higher achievements among the participants while generating some measurable returns on investments.

But, to give an answer to your question that what should be given in corporate culture to reward the accomplishments or achievements of the employees, we would say that the trophy awards are the best option for a corporate achiever because firstly, the medals are specifically designed for some Olympics, sports, and tournaments and secondly in trophies you have an option to customize them as per your corporate’ requirement.

However, an achievement trophy award that you give to your corporate’ achievers celebrates a specific and spectacular accomplishment of their career. But, there is a wide array of skills and successes to recognize hence these trophy awards should be diverse. In fact, these trophies should be made special for each occasion with the help of the best Trophies manufacturers in Delhi. But, if you don’t want to customize a trophy, you have an option to easily buy a premade and carbon-copied trophy.