“Learning
is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying
"We work to become, not to acquire." Bill Russell
Today is National Employee
Appreciation Day: take this opportunity to celebrate employees for all they are
and all they do to make your company great. Start by catching them doing things
right: give them a public pat on the back and let others know you value those
actions. Next, let them know you appreciate their being there: we often overlook
how important good attendance really is. And then give them the gift of learning:
it’s a portable benefit that rewards performance and promotes excellence. Each
of these helps them become the kind of professional you need: your company
benefits and so do all of the stakeholders in that success. Managers are always
lamenting they don’t have sufficient pay increases to give to good employees: the
insufficiencies they worry about are more than made up by these other
strategies. This is how great professionals help others to become better
professionals today.
William Felton “Bill”
Russell (b. 1934): American retired professional basketball player and one of
the greatest athletes in sport’s history
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