If you’re like most Australians, Tuesday was the day you watched your favourite summer sport, relaxed and socialised, watched the fireworks and maybe thought about how grateful we are to be Australian.
If you want to achieve even more value from the day, start thinking about your people.
The Australian of the Year Awards are now an important Aussie tradition.
You could start your own internal employee of the year program, to be awarded on Australia Day.
Yes, it means we have to distinguish between the compliant performers, the high performers and the elite performers – they exist anyway.
And it might encourage certain employees to not take a sickie.
What do you think?