Comments on: Show Your Employees Some Love http://shorespeak.com/blog/2009/02/show-your-employees-some-love/ What's Your MQ? Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:09:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Have You Thought About Your Intangible Credibility? — shorespeak | Rob Shore | Management Coach • Sales Consultant • Professional Speaker http://shorespeak.com/blog/2009/02/show-your-employees-some-love/comment-page-1/#comment-1419 Have You Thought About Your Intangible Credibility? — shorespeak | Rob Shore | Management Coach • Sales Consultant • Professional Speaker Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:58:57 +0000 http://shorespeak.com/blog/?p=166#comment-1419 [...] seem to get into a discussion that makes me either think or drink (we both love wine!). I’ve mentioned her here before, but this time she was good enough to contribute her thoughts…in her own [...] [...] seem to get into a discussion that makes me either think or drink (we both love wine!). I’ve mentioned her here before, but this time she was good enough to contribute her thoughts…in her own [...]

]]> By: Rob http://shorespeak.com/blog/2009/02/show-your-employees-some-love/comment-page-1/#comment-334 Rob Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:24:08 +0000 http://shorespeak.com/blog/?p=166#comment-334 @Kathy, What I like the most is that Andy combines the 'people matter' necessity with a high MQ sensibility. What employee wouldn't remember getting a Flying Gas Can Award!! @Kathy,

What I like the most is that Andy combines the ‘people matter’ necessity with a high MQ sensibility. What employee wouldn’t remember getting a Flying Gas Can Award!!

]]> By: Kathy Freeman Godfrey http://shorespeak.com/blog/2009/02/show-your-employees-some-love/comment-page-1/#comment-333 Kathy Freeman Godfrey Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:15:25 +0000 http://shorespeak.com/blog/?p=166#comment-333 Rob, Thanks for the mention. I thought your readers might be interested in a real life implementation of this concept that "people/employees matter." This is a colleague of mine, Andy Besheer from Broadridge - Clearly he brings a great sense of humor to his leadership style! Kathy: Yes we are of like minds on this subject – what a great blog post – communication and recognition are critically important, especially in this environment. We’ve just created an “Ask Andy” box in the office out in SF so that when I’m out there I can do town hall updates and also answer their questions without them feeling the pressure of having to stand up and ask on the spot…will see how well it works next week! Also created a new award – comes with a lunch party for the entire team – called the “flying gas can” this evolved out of a project where I needed to have a demonstration built onto a laptop to take to a conference. They stripped everything else off the laptop so that they could load a server application onto it and I started calling it the flying gas can after the scenes in various old movies where they strip out a plane so that all it does is carry gas so that someone can fly far enough to see where the Japanese task force (or whoever) is coming from. The team latched on to this and started calling the initiative Project FGC. Afterwards, I went and got a Jerry can and glued some posterboard wings on it and decorated it and awarded it to the team “for selflessly extending themselves for the wealth management initiative.” It will be given in the future for similar above and beyond acts by people or teams. This has really resonated with folks. Communication is the foundation of all trust in the organization and only organizations with a high degree of internal trust can succeed over the long term. Recognition reinforces trust and encourages individual and team initiative within the construct of goals of the overall enterprise. And of course, doing it in a fun way…well that makes it so much better for all concerned! Best, Andy Rob,
Thanks for the mention. I thought your readers might be interested in a real life implementation of this concept that “people/employees matter.” This is a colleague of mine, Andy Besheer from Broadridge – Clearly he brings a great sense of humor to his leadership style!

Kathy:

Yes we are of like minds on this subject – what a great blog post – communication and recognition are critically important, especially in this environment. We’ve just created an “Ask Andy” box in the office out in SF so that when I’m out there I can do town hall updates and also answer their questions without them feeling the pressure of having to stand up and ask on the spot…will see how well it works next week!

Also created a new award – comes with a lunch party for the entire team – called the “flying gas can” this evolved out of a project where I needed to have a demonstration built onto a laptop to take to a conference. They stripped everything else off the laptop so that they could load a server application onto it and I started calling it the flying gas can after the scenes in various old movies where they strip out a plane so that all it does is carry gas so that someone can fly far enough to see where the Japanese task force (or whoever) is coming from. The team latched on to this and started calling the initiative Project FGC. Afterwards, I went and got a Jerry can and glued some posterboard wings on it and decorated it and awarded it to the team “for selflessly extending themselves for the wealth management initiative.” It will be given in the future for similar above and beyond acts by people or teams. This has really resonated with folks.

Communication is the foundation of all trust in the organization and only organizations with a high degree of internal trust can succeed over the long term. Recognition reinforces trust and encourages individual and team initiative within the construct of goals of the overall enterprise. And of course, doing it in a fun way…well that makes it so much better for all concerned!

Best, Andy

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