I have attended somewhere north of 150 all employee meetings in the course of my career. The topics, no matter the company, are typically the same--company performance, sales forecasts, safety overviews, new product launches, major projects and initiatives etc. etc. At the end of every one of these there never fails to be a question and answer period. In many cases, some sort of incentive is offered to generate additional discussions and questions. While not particularly timid nor uncomfortable speaking in front of groups, I can say with complete confidence that, in all of my dozens and dozens of meetings and regardless of the topic, I have never asked a question. Not once. And sometimes the incentives are quite appealing--tickets to a play, for instance. Or one time season passes to Eagle Point Park. Never has the incentive managed to generate any burning query in my mind.
Until today.
Can you guess the incentive today? Today it was Betty Jane's caramel apples. Do you think I managed to overcome more than a decade of all employee meeting silence?
Darn right. And it was worth every bite! (And if you ever hear me give Sammy a hard time about his sweet tooth, feel free to remind me of the caramel apple episode of 2010).
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