I manage a team of eight amazing, brilliant professional women, across 4 different time zones, 5 different nationalities, so we do not meet face to face very regularly although we have many, many Teams calls. I honestly could not ask for a better team and I was legally allowed, I would never recruit a man and screw up our dynamics I genuinely do appreciate them.
We are having an in person meeting next month, requiring some of us to travel to the US, others are based there. I want to take them all a small gift from the UK as a thank you for their hard work and dedication and support they give each other (and me). They're are all between mid 30s to late 50s. It needs to be small/light for transport. I was looking at around £25/head out of my own pocket. I advocate for them to get promoted, above inflation payrises etc, look after them in the business sense, so this is more of a personal thing, as I plan to retire next year and this may be the last time I see some of them in person (they do not know this bit, I am only 53).
ChatGPT has come up with fancy tea bags, Liberty notebooks/pens or individual charm bracelets. MNers are usually brilliant at finding things that would never occur to me though. What would you want from your team supervisor under these circumstances? I can afford to stretch my budget a bit, but don't want anyone feeling uncomfortable to receive a present either.
Thank you!