A company I am the Board of just celebrated an important milestone. The CEO decided to commemorate the event by taking the entire team out for a night of bowling and give everyone a personalized bowling shirt. Another company where I am on the board gave everyone a personalized etched rock with the company logo and date to capture the launch of the company. These items become reminders and symbols of events, achievements and significant dates or happenings. They are great ways to keep top of mind and front and center those things that we want remembered and memorialized within an organization. I think we tend to forget these things as the larger a company gets and before long we talk ourselves into thinking that no one really cares about these symbols, and they are expensive to do for a lots of people anyway. I would challenge this thinking and as a leader, a manager or a supervisor, try and come up with ways to memorialize and commemorate whenever and wherever you can. The Old Testament is full of accounts where wells and altars were built after a battle won or something significant that happened. No one account is better known than what God did in Genesis 9:16; “When I see the rainbow in the clouds, I will remember the eternal covenant between God and every living creature on earth.” God memorialized his promise for us by giving us each a rainbow that when we see it we can remember what He has said and done. God gave us a bowling shirt, if you will. Today if you have the opportunity to recognize, reward, commemorate or memorialize, don’t miss the opportunity. People will remember.

Reference: Genesis 9:16 (New Living Testament)