Most everyone I know works for a living. Those most fortunate among us love what we do, have a passion for it, and more often than not wake up thinking I get to go do (fill in the blank) today. Other folks just go to work because they have to. Whether you love what you do or just go to work, its important to do what I call making your job your own. Whether you are a professional, CEO, teacher, mechanic, state worker, or housekeeper, its important to put what Barbara Glanz calls your personal signature on your job. In her book Care Packages for the Workplace: Dozens of Little Things You Can Do to Regenerate Spirit at Work Barbara Glanz writes about a bagboy with Downs Syndrome who had attended one of her workshops. He had taken to heart her suggestions about putting your own signature on your work. His signature was to slip a "thought for the day" into customers' grocery bags. The idea was so successful that customers not only came in the store more often, they would wait in line just to get one of his slips of paper. If a bagboy with the challenge of Downs Syndrome can put his own personal signature on his work, what about us? Beginning TODAY, what personal signature could you put on the work you do, something that benefits customers, the company and even you? |
