Show Your Appreciation

This coming Wednesday, April 24 is Administrative Professional’s Day. It is the one day per year set aside to show your thanks and appreciation to the individuals who help you all year. The day originated as Secretaries Day. However, the term ‘secretary’ has been replaced with other titles such as ‘Administrative Assistant’, hence the change in nomenclature. Regardless of what they call it, don’t let the day slip by without at the very least saying ‘thank you’ to everyone who helps you get the job done.

This year you might want to do a little more than say ‘thank you’. Here are my ideas on what you can also do: Give gift cards to local coffee shops, lunch stops, nail salon, or gas cards; Pick up special pens (the women in our office like different colored gel pens); Small plants or flowers for desks; A box or pastries, doughnuts, cake, candy or cookies; Take a picture of them and put it in a nice frame for their desk; A special coffee mug; Buy all the ‘fixings’ for an ice cream sundae party; and last, but not least, don’t forget to buy a card and take a few minutes to hand write your thanks inside.

If you have any other great ideas on how to show your appreciation for the individuals who help you every day, share them with us here.

The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at www.neminc.com.