We have spoken about your business culture, career paths, creating family within your business, training, flat management organizations… and on it goes. We recognize that if you do the job correctly you will have long-term employees… forever.
So, why not add another level of experience to the business lives of your employees? Why not raise the bar even further and up the ante? Why not dare to give your employees even more reasons to love their work, more reasons to want to come to work, more reasons to do their best and love their job?
Find ways to add ritual and ceremony.
This is tough, I understand, but so is business and so is life. Let’s pay hard, let’s work hard—and let’s give both value. Ritual and ceremony binds communities together, creates the common heritage, creates legacy. We find it in our religious practices, our fraternal organizations, clubs, within our families and the families of our workers. Ritual and ceremony enrich our lives, deepen our culture and add to the beauty and meaning of our lives. Why can’t we have ritual and ceremony in our workplace?
How do we do this? A very good question, and I do not have an instant answer. Perhaps your employees can answer this query. Perhaps with a little leadership, some direction, some fearless employees will take the risk of creating some ritual and ceremony. Perhaps it begins with annual awards. It could possibly be part of your Christmas celebration, or other holiday parties or maybe during your summer picnic.
What if you have none of these events? Then you’re lagging behind. Get with it—it is a new world. Be a leader and an innovator, dare to take your people to the next level. Yes, it is daring, bold, imaginative, uncomfortable and risky… yes, exactly where you need to be.
Lead the way and your people will fill in the blanks and make it happen. This will enrich everyone’s life. This will help your bottom line in unmeasurable ways.














