In April, I had a lovely opportunity to visit with my friend Mark Jones, CEO of Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution. This was a recorded conversation later shared with all their great employees at a company gathering. The subject of the conversation was making work meaningful for those who do it. We explored the idea of prioritizing the employee experience MORE and bringing LOVE into the world of work instead of checking it at the door.
One of the attendees at the event Lindsey Walker, Market Relationship Manager, later posted this powerful self-reflective reaction:
“Kevin spoke about how work and parenting a child can be similar and it really got my wheels turning as he and Mark Jones talked about bringing LOVE back into the place of work. I like to think I’m a good mom, but I bring a totally different skill set to the office typically. What if I didn’t? What if I didn’t turn it all of as soon as I got to work? What if I gave my coworkers the same grace as they learned as I give my almost two-year-old son. Spoke kindly to them. Poured confidence into them. Walked along side of them and then when the time was right…ran along side of them. It truly gave me a whole new meaning to being a working parent and letting these worlds collide a bit more. As Kevin said, ‘we can still be hard charging, we can still be competitive, attentive to details, we can hold ourselves to a high standard, but we are going to do it with love.” – Lindsey Walker
I later reposed Lyndsey’s remarks and added the following:
“This post by Lindsey Walker about bringing love to work instead of checking it at the door is inspiring! One person taking action from within themselves by choosing love changes the world. Go Lindsey!” – Kevin Hancock
This talk was later posted on-line by Saco & Biddeford Savings as a 20-minute video.
