The other day on the NBC Nightly News
Brian Williams shared a study about how Americans are not using their vacationtime. He told compelling reasons why
employees thing this was a good thing – stress, fear of job loss, concern over
work backlog upon return. The story was
generally silent from employer’s view except to say that well rested employees aremore productive and innovative.
It might seem hard to believe, but early
in my management development the old McDonnell Douglas Corporation (1980’s era…)
used to publish a quarterly report to managers listing the names of team
members that were losing vacation time.
This report was considered a bad mark on the MANAGER not the employee.
The company’s opinion was that the manager either was not properly
developing their talent or could not manage their resources. I can remember my leaders checking with me to
see if I had vacation plans when my name started to show up on the “high count
list”. Can you imagine how positive your team would receive this today?
Something to remember – real leaders do
what is right independent of some policy telling them to do it. Do you know your team members that are losing
vacation days? Are you helping them get time
off? How about you? Are you taking time
to recharge?
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