Happiness in others
March 26th 2008 08:59
I started this blog as a reminder to readers about the good things that make us happy by sharing things that make me happy.
When I started working for the company I'm working for now. I made sure I was doing my best, eventually I was rewarded by my efforts and became one of the top performers. In three months time I was promoted -- that made me happy.
When I was a manager, I was handling anywhere from 18 to almost 30 people. I had to maintain not just my performance, but the rest of the people I'm handling. Ideally, I will want 18 to almost 30 of the me that just got promoted. In 6 months time, I bagged the Best Team Award, after a year, I bagged it 6 months in a year, 4 of which were consecutive Best Team Awards. Obviously, that proved to my bosses how good I was already doing and eventually I became the Operations Manager -- that made me happier.
Now that I'm handling a team of managers who each handle an average of 24 people, I had to make sure everybody's doing the same thing I was when I was in their place, and ideally make sure that each team is aiming for the top so that we all move towards the same place.
I've had some team managers bag the Best Team awards every month or so, most of the time it's my managers who get these awards, say about 85% of the year. of that 85%, more than half is bagged by the same manager and it's become a challenge for the rest of the managers to steal that star from her. We've almost forgotten who the last winner was before her streak of more than 6 months of winning this award.
Today, February's results came and to everyone surpise, especially mine, a different manager won. This has been the manager I've been having a challenge with. I told her we'll make it a goal to get her this award someday -- and today, we did!
I congratulated her before she went home, the results are not official yet pending disputes of the accuracy of some of the metrics used, but by far she's probably going to keep it. She was very happy and excited about it but what made me happy is when she told me -- not without your help and patience.
Now that made me happiest. It's always when you make sure the people under you are successful that you know you're successful. Even if they surpass you someday, the feeling is great when they come back to you and thank you for the things you've done with and for them.
When I started working for the company I'm working for now. I made sure I was doing my best, eventually I was rewarded by my efforts and became one of the top performers. In three months time I was promoted -- that made me happy.
When I was a manager, I was handling anywhere from 18 to almost 30 people. I had to maintain not just my performance, but the rest of the people I'm handling. Ideally, I will want 18 to almost 30 of the me that just got promoted. In 6 months time, I bagged the Best Team Award, after a year, I bagged it 6 months in a year, 4 of which were consecutive Best Team Awards. Obviously, that proved to my bosses how good I was already doing and eventually I became the Operations Manager -- that made me happier.
Now that I'm handling a team of managers who each handle an average of 24 people, I had to make sure everybody's doing the same thing I was when I was in their place, and ideally make sure that each team is aiming for the top so that we all move towards the same place.
I've had some team managers bag the Best Team awards every month or so, most of the time it's my managers who get these awards, say about 85% of the year. of that 85%, more than half is bagged by the same manager and it's become a challenge for the rest of the managers to steal that star from her. We've almost forgotten who the last winner was before her streak of more than 6 months of winning this award.
Today, February's results came and to everyone surpise, especially mine, a different manager won. This has been the manager I've been having a challenge with. I told her we'll make it a goal to get her this award someday -- and today, we did!
I congratulated her before she went home, the results are not official yet pending disputes of the accuracy of some of the metrics used, but by far she's probably going to keep it. She was very happy and excited about it but what made me happy is when she told me -- not without your help and patience.
Now that made me happiest. It's always when you make sure the people under you are successful that you know you're successful. Even if they surpass you someday, the feeling is great when they come back to you and thank you for the things you've done with and for them.
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