Creating Value All Around Us

Creating value every day can be done within a very limited circle of people around us and a on a larger scale.

Creating value for people around us naturally flows from the habits that we have that create value to ourselfes. By simple choices in our attitude towards others, we can all add value to them.

This occurs both subtly and in more meaningful ways, but it does happen. When we make room for other people in our life. When we make them feel important and become interested in them, we add value to people.

Simple things such as smiling, looking at them in the eyes and listening to them when they speak are all ways by which we can make people feel important. And when they feel important, they have increased in value in their own eyes.

Asking if and how we can help is another very simple way by which we can create value. Learning skills that are aimed at helping others instead of yourself is also a way to create value for others. What's most interesting is these situations is that by doing this, we also create value for ourselves!

That's what companies that systematically engage in employee recognition do: they create value. For their owners and for the individuals working for them. In his very simple, yet profound book Whale Done, seasoned management guru Ken Blanchard presents a very interesting illustration of this principle. Read the book, it's worth it. Really.

In the company you work for, are people systematically recognized for their effort or their performance?