Guess who
came to Benedictine Academy... the Delivering Happiness Film Crew!
WOW!!!!!!
What an amazing
experience to share our Benedictine Academy story with these awesome
people.
A little over a year ago, we read the Zappos book,
Delivering Happiness, by CEO Tony Hsieh and Jenn Lim, the CEO of Delivering
Happiness. And as they say, the rest is history.
We
were inspired and began to inspire our students and staff to begin to live our
Mission Statement and culture in a new way - the Delivering Happiness Way.
Our belief statements, core values were rewritten so that they were simple, easy
to remember and inviting to follow.
We were living for a higher purpose by serving others. The results were not surprising. Helping others, going beyond the expected, made others happy and it made us happy in return, one hundred fold. We were, as Jenn Lim said, "nudging our world to a better place" one kindness at a time and it turned into a movement. A movement that led us to winning the National Jefferson Award Gold Medal for best high school in the country for public volunteer service.
We
were inspired and began to inspire our students and staff to begin to live our
Mission Statement and culture in a new way - the Delivering Happiness Way.
Our belief statements, core values were rewritten so that they were simple, easy
to remember and inviting to follow. We were living for a higher purpose by serving others. The results were not surprising. Helping others, going beyond the expected, made others happy and it made us happy in return, one hundred fold. We were, as Jenn Lim said, "nudging our world to a better place" one kindness at a time and it turned into a movement. A movement that led us to winning the National Jefferson Award Gold Medal for best high school in the country for public volunteer service.
The Film Crew, Rachel. Meredith and Sherief, spent the day
interviewing students and staff, filming their day in classes, at lunch and
while preparing for the awards ceremony. At the school-wide Students In Action Award Ceremony, we
recognized and gave a WOW experience to our Unsung Heroes,
students and staff who went beyond the ordinary to show extreme
kindness.
Mr. Jennings also issued a challenge,Tony Hsieh's Zappos Challenge, to the entire school community. Tony Hsieh is a Harvard graduate and the CEO of the billion dollar Internet shoe company, Zappos.
His challenge to everyone is this: Make at least one small improvement every week to make the place you live and work better. One small improvement does not seem like a lot, but at the end of the year, exponentially, it can have a huge effect.
If we all did this at Benedictine Academy, by the end of the year we would have made over 10,000 acts of improvement!
Now that is a WOW!
Mr. Jennings also issued a challenge,Tony Hsieh's Zappos Challenge, to the entire school community. Tony Hsieh is a Harvard graduate and the CEO of the billion dollar Internet shoe company, Zappos.
His challenge to everyone is this: Make at least one small improvement every week to make the place you live and work better. One small improvement does not seem like a lot, but at the end of the year, exponentially, it can have a huge effect.
If we all did this at Benedictine Academy, by the end of the year we would have made over 10,000 acts of improvement!
Now that is a WOW!
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