I announced in May, 2010, the 52 - Week Employee Recognition Plan. This is the 24th week. The lesson this week is:
Reward 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.
Along with this trendy rage comes books and seminars on how to manage the disruptors, those who think outside your box, the ones willing to ask why and why not and keep asking us until someone listens.
Who are the lost, forgotten, and overlooked as we celebrate the disruptors, the creative-types, the rebels who come up with the latest coolest idea? These are the cogs in your machine, the routine-makers.
They are the ones whose, often silent, efficiency in executing the mundane tasks of every business form the foundation for your business. That foundation, their successes, allows you to experiment with all those ideas, innovations, projects, skunk works, disruptions. That foundation generates the cash-flows that provide the cash to invest in these experiments. Their efficient routines, boring and restrictive to some, create the efficiencies that allow others to experiment. Some of which prove successful; some of which don't.
Recognize those efficient routines.
Recognize their successes.
Show how new ideas and innovations and solutions are built upon and made possible by this strong foundation of routines and the efficiency to which they are kept.
It’s easy to overlook them. But without them, you have nothing to stand on. Be sure to recognize that and them.
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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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