Last week, now that my role has changed, I decided to request from a few close colleagues a “LinkedIn Recommendation” for my time as both a Strategic Consultant and Deputy Head of Strategic Consultancy. I don’t know whether I deserve any recommendations, but sometime you have to push a little to take your life forward, and I figure if people don’t want to then they’ll just ignore my request, now worries.
Christmas (or early February in reality) is for giving as well as receiving, so I decided to recommend some people I currently work with whom I felt at the time warranted recognition… these included:
- A Technical Architect at a client
- A Trinity project manager
- Two Trinity consultants
- A Trinity “technology leader”
- A Trinity solution architect
- And a Client Project Manager.
There are of course lots of other great people I do or have worked with, but in the spur of the moment these “felt right”.
It’s a cathartic experience writing a recommendation, but it’s a little weird when you push those little “boats of reputation” onto the virtual lake and hope that they get to their recipient and they are accepted and become reality…
Anyway, the deed was done, I felt good about the “giving” and life went on… One of the recipients of a “boat of reputation” (not sure i like the analogy anymore!) dropped me an email the next morning stating:
It’s nice to feel appreciated – what prompted this then?
I don’t usually give or expect recommendations on Linked in ....
My response was:
Decided this year I need to be more proactive in being positive and giving credit where credit is due..
Plus its always nice to do something unexpected!
So go on, think of the last 3 people that inspired, impressed or were just plain awesome and go to LinkedIn and write a recommendation.. Why wouldn’t you?
Reputation and attention are rapidly increasing in value, give the gift of a recommendation, it’s infectious!
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