Spreading positiveness

I am back to scribbling on my blog again after a long lull....A mail which I received made me think and share my thoughts again on my blog. Well here goes....

A mail was sent by a Director of a recruitment firm on an ex-employee, accusing him of "Cyber Crime" and "Identity theft" from a company where he was employed prior to this firm. The mail also accussed him of multiple process voilations, lack of ethics, dishonesty and lack of integrity. This mail was sent to multiple receivers, who were kept confidential and a very strong "beware" subject line and the recruiter's name. Well, what ever could have been the background, I would not dwell deep into it, but what caught my attention was that how this Director took efforts to communicate to so many people about this recruiter's misdeeds (?).

I started thinking... I understand that people need to be aware of misdeeds of some, to safe guard and protect themselves from these culprits. People need to be informed and kept aware.

But look at it the other way round, how many of us would take efforts to inform people at large, send out a generic mail about the good deeds a person has done?

The recognition of good / great work mostly gets restricted to a certain team / office / department / company and seldom gets communicated to a group / fraternity / forum, unless specifically requested. Why is it that people want to "advertise" only the mistakes / bad deeds done by people and not openly praise the good work done. I feel the need to keep people aware about the perils of getting affected with bad deeds / harm, is more important than knowing about the good work done.

But having said this, I feel it is important to recognize and advertise about one's good work, which would boost the morale and confidence of the individual. This would also ensure that the person would get recognized in the industry and his / her chances of career progression would be easier. The individual would be recognized in the gatherings / forums and spoken about. Along with getting the individual the sought after recognition it would also bring the person in the eyes of the competition, which would make these people targets for head hunting.

Well there are always 2 faces to any actions and I will start looking at only the positive side .... Can I do something like this for my team member? Who should be the target audience? Is it really worth the efforts that I am going to take? All this and more would be food for thought in the coming days... until then