Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to go ahead and celebrate your wins,
Speaker 1: and if they're big wins, do so in a big way.
Speaker 1: This tip comes from Scott Jeffrey Miller, executive vice president
Speaker 1: of Franklin Covey. He's also the author of the new
Speaker 1: book Management mess to Leadership Success. He notes that recently
Speaker 1: I had an idea to celebrate a big win in
Speaker 1: a big way. He gathered a number of business leaders
Speaker 1: from around the world who are now representing Franklin Covey
Speaker 1: in their home countries. My goal was to celebrate the
Speaker 1: success they've had in building their prospecting databases and also
Speaker 1: take a quantum leap in the number of people they
Speaker 1: could add to their target audience, he says. In other words,
Speaker 1: he wanted to celebrate what they'd accomplished and share a
Speaker 1: vision of what was possible. So what did he do.
Speaker 1: He had staff wheel three confetti cannons toward the intimate
Speaker 1: gathering as he shared statistics regarding potential prospects in each country.
Speaker 1: A few hundred thousand, here, a million or so. They're
Speaker 1: totaling twenty eight million potential prospects. It's an impressive number, but,
Speaker 1: as he notes, an even more impressive number to experience
Speaker 1: on command. He says, the cannons were set off suddenly
Speaker 1: the air filled with twenty eight million pieces of confetti.
Speaker 1: This was unexpected and memorable. Otherwise buttoned down executives jumped
Speaker 1: up from their seats, many pulling out cell phones and
Speaker 1: capturing it on video, while others started dancing and laughing,
Speaker 1: celebrating to the synchronized music in the background. Miller says,
Speaker 1: at one point, I even passed out umbrellas as the
Speaker 1: confetti showers continued. Now, well, confetti isn't exactly a high
Speaker 1: budget item. Multiply anything by twenty eight million and it
Speaker 1: won't be cheap, But Scott stresses that budget should never
Speaker 1: constrain your ability to celebrate winds. People might be happy
Speaker 1: to get some free food or gifts out of a
Speaker 1: celebratory event, but I promise if you invest time in
Speaker 1: recognizing them, you can make a bigger, more lasting impression.
Speaker 1: If you recognize people individually, showing that you've memorized their
Speaker 1: names and accomplishments, you can make people glow for simply
Speaker 1: the cost of your time. But the point is to
Speaker 1: do something, and it's even better if it's something that
Speaker 1: wows now. To be sure, no one wants to celebrate
Speaker 1: fake winds. People are happiest when they earn their confetti,
Speaker 1: but Scott stresses that leaders must also fight the compulsion
Speaker 1: to wait for just the right special occasion to celebrate.
Speaker 1: This can lead to missed opportunities, and Scott recalls a
Speaker 1: great IRMA Bomback anecdote about saving stuff for some imagined
Speaker 1: perfect moment. In retrospect, Bomback once said I would have
Speaker 1: burned the pink candle that was sculpted like a rose
Speaker 1: before it melted while being stored. So here's Scott's advice,
Speaker 1: burn that rose scented candle. Don't hold back celebrating winds
Speaker 1: for just very special days, find legitimate reasons to celebrate,
Speaker 1: and then be generous. If you have a discretionary budget,
Speaker 1: spend it that it's what it's there for your discretion.
Speaker 1: You can do this in your personal life too, I mean,
Speaker 1: why not open the good bottle of wine on a
Speaker 1: Tuesday night. Really, so much in life is worth celebrating, though,
Speaker 1: if you are raining down twenty eight million pieces of confetti.
Speaker 1: You should probably offer to help clean up and leave
Speaker 1: a really good tip in the meantime. This is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
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