This past week I was honored by IHRIM with an Excellence Award at their annual HRMStrategies Conference. I was genuinely surprised that IHRIM would honor me with such a reward. Though I have been known to be my own worst critic, I haven’t quite felt that I deserved the award. Let me rephrase: I feel that there are many more deserving people within the organization than I.
I didn’t quite understand it until this morning as I lay awake in bed pondering my next blog should be about. Somehow I got around to the idea of awards and I made a connection that may be even more far-fetched than me receiving the award:
Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.
The award was considered by many, myself included, premature. Though there was controversy, President Obama accepted the award with “deep gratitude and great humility.” In his acceptance speech, he stated that he was at the beginning, and not at the end, of his labors.
And though I am no Barack Obama (and the IHRIM Excellence Award is no Nobel Peace Prize) I can still accept the IHRIM Excellence Award in the same spirit.
I am but at the beginning of promoting the use of social media for the benefit of IHRIM and its members (the reason for which I earned the award), not at the end. And thus it is with the deepest of gratitude and greatest of humilities that I can accept the award.
So I send out my heartfelt thanks to IHRIM and everyone who deems me worthy of the honors.
And finally for those of you wondering: Yes, "tardily" is an actual word and quite often reflects how I do things. ;)
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