I announced in May, 2010, the 52 - Week Employee Recognition Plan. This is the 24th week. The lesson this week is:
Reward the gate-keepers, the routine makers.
The rage in business books and experts and coaches today is...change. Change. Innovation. Disruption. How to handle it, create it, embrace it, live with it. Make money from it. Survive it.
Who are lost, forgotten, overlooked? Those who make change and innovation and disruption possible. The gate-keepers, the routine-makers.
They build and sustain the foundation for your business. Their success allows you to experiment with all those ideas, innovations, projects, skunk works, disruptions. Some prove successful. Some prove failures.
But without the efficient execution of the routines, the manning of the gates, for your business processes you would not have the chance to grow.
So, who are these gate-keepers, routine-makers? Everyone in your organization. We all have routines. Our efficient execution of them is what provides the cash-flow and the time and room to raise our heads up, look around us and consider white space innovations, new products or services, new vendors or markets, a new ap, a what-if conversation. We all have gates to keep whether it’s a conversation on social-media or a customer’s unreasonable request (Yes, customers make unreasonable requests.) or a wild-eyed idea that’s at odds with your purpose.
Recognize those efforts and their success for the doors it opens for your organization. It’s easy to overlook them. But without them, you have nothing to stand on.
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You can start with any week of the 52 - Week Employee Recognition Plan and make that your first week.
You can take one of those weeks and turn it into a month or commit to an accelerated pace and complete 6 of the weeks in one month.
You can create your own week of employee recognition. Share that journey here. Share it in your blog or Twitter or Facebook.
But, do something to recognize your employees! They set your brand apart as your ultimate competitive edge.
And the more you recognize their achievements, the more achievements you'll see and they'll enjoy, along with your customers and and shareholders, partners and vendors.
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