Introducing the Go-Giver Award
For two years now, we’ve been getting email and tweets and blogs (and all sorts of other odd-sounding words referring to new ways people communicate) telling us about people they knew who were genuine go-givers.
We’ve heard about parents and friends and bosses and coworkers and teachers and coaches and friends and lovers and lawyers and bankers and fitness trainers and insurance agents and siblings and customers and vendors and grandparents and inspiring people of all shapes, sizes, stripes and stations in life.
People love to tell other people about still other people who have meant something wonderful to them.
Last month, we created a kind of cool way to do that: an actual Go-Giver Award, which you can download, customize and present to those special someones in your life:
There is a link to the Award from the home page of the Go-Giver site — and you can also find it here:
The moment the site was up, I went to the link, filled in my wife’s name, printed it out and gave it to her.
Who do you know in your life who deserves their very own Go-Giver Award?
P.S. Thanks to Thom Scott, Cesar Abueg and Kathy Zader for their ingenuity and creative effort on this one!
January 9th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
Hi John:
What a wonderful opportunity to acknowledge another person. I’m so please you and Bob had this idea.
When the award went live I printed two awards, one for my sister Jane and one for my co-worker Anne.
Jane does anything and everything for anyone who needs her help. I owe her my life, and I continually look for ways to show my never-ending appreciation. Jane selflessly cared for me following a major surgery, while at the same time caring for my ailing parents in a different household. I gave her the award. She looked at it. Began to read it and then she looked at me and said, “I’m going to get a frame for this and hang this in my room.” I was pleased that I was able to give Jane something that truly touched her.
I also printed one for my co-worker Anne, and she has hers proudly displayed on the windowsill behind her desk.
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to make others feel as special as they are.
Donna
January 16th, 2010 at 9:57 am
I immediately knew three business contacts who should receive these awards, and I have printed them out. I will also be ordering three copies of your book to give to them!
January 30th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
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