Winner!
Palazzo Hotel, Las Vegas - Thu, 14 Feb 2019, 12:30am
The annual awards dinner for our sales organization was this night. I won one of the awards! "Global Impact", I believe it was. I was honestly so pleased I can't even remember the exact name now. Plus, the several drinks of top-shelf tequila I've had this evening haven't helped my short term memory. ☺️
Going in to the awards ceremony I expected to receive some form of recognition. The main sales territory I've supported achieved 189% of its quota for the year. Another I worked with finished at 125%. And I've been doing sales enablement work- helping others on the team, globally, improve their skills. In fact I've been very busy on that the past several weeks developing read-ahead materials and activities for this conference.
There was a point during the evening when my spirits sank. My functional department head gave two awards to people on my team. I was neither of them. I didn't begrudge them the recognition; they did creditable work. But still I felt robbed for not getting one of those awards, too. Then when my sales colleague was recognized for delivering 189% of target my name was not mentioned alongside his. Were my contributions to everyone's success in the past year going to go unmentioned? I was literally composing a resignation letter in my head.
But then a big award came up at the end. The Global Impact award. Not the "best this" or "best that" category, but overall. As my senior executive started describing the work of the winner I knew by the second sentence that it was going to be me. Success! And, more importantly, recognition!
Along with the recognition comes a financial award. I'll be going to "President's Club". It's a reward system that many sales organizations have in which high achievers are given an all-expenses-paid trip to a resort location. This year it's a beach resort in Mexico in May. I've got to get back on my diet so I look better in my swim trunks!
The annual awards dinner for our sales organization was this night. I won one of the awards! "Global Impact", I believe it was. I was honestly so pleased I can't even remember the exact name now. Plus, the several drinks of top-shelf tequila I've had this evening haven't helped my short term memory. ☺️
Going in to the awards ceremony I expected to receive some form of recognition. The main sales territory I've supported achieved 189% of its quota for the year. Another I worked with finished at 125%. And I've been doing sales enablement work- helping others on the team, globally, improve their skills. In fact I've been very busy on that the past several weeks developing read-ahead materials and activities for this conference.
There was a point during the evening when my spirits sank. My functional department head gave two awards to people on my team. I was neither of them. I didn't begrudge them the recognition; they did creditable work. But still I felt robbed for not getting one of those awards, too. Then when my sales colleague was recognized for delivering 189% of target my name was not mentioned alongside his. Were my contributions to everyone's success in the past year going to go unmentioned? I was literally composing a resignation letter in my head.
But then a big award came up at the end. The Global Impact award. Not the "best this" or "best that" category, but overall. As my senior executive started describing the work of the winner I knew by the second sentence that it was going to be me. Success! And, more importantly, recognition!
Along with the recognition comes a financial award. I'll be going to "President's Club". It's a reward system that many sales organizations have in which high achievers are given an all-expenses-paid trip to a resort location. This year it's a beach resort in Mexico in May. I've got to get back on my diet so I look better in my swim trunks!