My Wife and I spent the day at a funeral…
Not a typical valentine’s day by any stretch of the imagination, but we spent the day together…
Perspective is everything.
We left the kids with their Grandmother and proceeded to the Church, the burial ground, and the hall for refreshments…
Emotions were strong, and regret is one of the harshest pills to swallow…
Why do we wait for funerals to speak so eloquently about the life a person lived. They can’t do anything with the flowers at that point…
It bothers me when I see pain associated with a wasted opportunity…
You had time to tell that person how special they were while they were breathing…
Instead, you took the person and time for granted…
Why don’t we give flowers while the person is alive?
Counteroffers fundamentally are insincere & reactive attempts to correct an employer’s errors when the warning signs were there all along…
You chose not to promote that employee…
You chose not to pay them more…
You thought they’d never leave your company…
You failed to recognize their worth, leaving the door open for another company to step in…
If you don’t salute that employee, then someone else will…
A tough lesson for many business leaders who continue to take their greatest assets for granted…
Sadly, funerals & counteroffers have become an elaborate production…
In some cases, they’re a failed attempt to rectify one’s mistakes and pacify guilt…
Why do we complicate the simple things?!
Let’s praise a job well done before we call out errors…
We have normalized the good and magnified the bad…
“Thanks”, followed by a “but” negates the expression of appreciation and places the focus on what went wrong or what the person failed to do…
“Thanks for meeting that deadline, but…”
“Thanks for washing the dishes, but…”
“Thanks for another great hire, but…”
While there is time and breath in our bodies, let’s appreciate the gift we are to one another.
Appreciate your team. Appreciate their sacrifices. Appreciate your loved ones. Appreciate your employer…
Give that employee their flowers before it’s too late.
