Message of the Day - Diamonds in the Rough

Good Morning,

 

This afternoon while looking through my email address book I saw many names of people I had worked with in the past. It brought smiles to my face to see many of these people have moved on to better roles, positions and companies since the time I worked with them. There are some, though, which make me proud to have worked with them.

 

These are the people who I found with many rough edges. People with many challenges facing them. People who needed help to get to the next level.

 

Some of these people just needed someone to believe in them and carry their belief in them for a little while until they were able to take themselves to the next level.  Some of these people just needed someone to give them just one more chance to get the job done right and show the company and world what they can do. Some of these people just needed someone to allow them roll up their sleeves and get to work and slog through the rough parts to show their capability.

 

What I remember most is seeing the potential in each of these people. That glimmer in their eye, that sign of promise by how they handled a task assigned to them.

 

When others saw employees, I saw potential.

 

To this day, I keep looking for that something special in everyone I work with. Maybe they need to be told they did a good job, maybe they need to hear a joke on a bad day. Whatever it is, I try to deliver it to those diamonds in the rough.

 

Our organizations are much better off when these gems are cleaned off and shine in ability and accomplishment.

 

Isn't it worth looking for the diamonds around you who are waiting to be helped out, cleaned off and into the spotlight of accomplishment? When you see the potential, know it will take time to help them get to where they need to be. We need to be patient and supportive (even when they make foolish mistakes). But, most of all look and find them.

 

Pay it forward to them, open and share your bag of tricks with them, connect them to your network. And when they get rolling under their own steam, become the student and learn from their brilliance. We will all be better for it.

 

In a few years, when you look through your contacts, you will then see some of the diamonds you helped along their way. And they will always remember you.

 

Enjoy!

 

Sanford Berenberg

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