Date Visited : lMarch 28, 2009 State Number: 23

Contact Information: Mississippi Valley Regional  Blood Center 5500 Lakeview Parkway Davenport, Iowa 52807 Natalie Johansen Phone: 563-359-5401 ext.225   Web Site: www.mvrbc.com Email: njohansen@mvrbc.com

Applying The "Al" Principle

From "The Recruitment Report" - December 2008 Issue
(A Mississippi Regional Blood Center Publication)

Al Whitney is an ordinary man doing a extraordinary things. He would say he is just doing what anyone can do. Applying what I like to call The Al Principle simply takes a “do more” attitude.

 

The morning I met Al at the St. Louis center he had already recruited three people to donate blood with MVRBC. Al does this daily. How? He simply starts up a conversation with folks he encounters during his day. He is proud to promote blood donation. He supplies them with his business card and a phone number to a donor center near them.
 

He challenged me, and I pass the challenge on to each of you, to carry several business cards and find opportunities to pass them along to others during the day and personally invite them to donate blood. We all understand the power of the personal ask, but do we practice it?

 

The Al Principle, or “I can do more than this” attitude works on many levels. Look for ways to apply this principle in your work, in your life.

 

We all can “do more than this.”