His fantastic day

Dh is the administrator of a large nursing home, one of the nicest here in town. They were having some problems with one of the nursing issues, so he invited a company expert here to help them figure out how to fix it. That request for help escalated to the company president's scheduling a visit to come along with the nursing expert!

Before dh took over the running of this particular home, it was losing money and morale was low. The company even thought of selling it just to be rid of it. The big boss had seen the numbers on paper and so he knew there had been a dramatic turn-around since dh arrived nearly two years ago, and he wanted to see the place for himself.

You can imagine the straightening and shining that has happened over the past month! The place always looks nice, but now it looks great. They even did things like buy a "new" antique set of china to put in the large china cabinet in the family dining room. The hard floors were newly stripped and waxed. They applied fresh paint to the curbs outside to denote the no-parking areas. Everything was subtle, but all together, the place looks great.

Yesterday was the big day. Dh's immediate boss who has been supporting the touch ups and making suggestions was there in both a support role as well as a "he's being examined too" way.

Dh said his presentation to the group of about 10 was spot on, lunch (a Southwest salad) was beautiful, the building shone, and the nursing staff got the direction they needed to solve the problem.

The president was very happy about what he saw, offered quite a handful of money to make other updates and cosmetic improvements to the building, told dh he was very, very happy to have him in his position and delicately asked if he was planning to stay for awhile (dh loves working for this company), and was overall very complimentary about dh's leadership skill.

Dh came home one happy man!