I want to praise an employee to an employer. The employee is a location manager. Due to the nature of my problem, I ended up listening to the employee manage that location for about six hours over three days, which is a fairly unusual customer experience.
I am fairly confident that this employee is known by name several tiers of management upwards for exactly the traits I would like to point out, but I would like to remind them of that yet again. This is one of those people who you sure can pay, but you can't get the value that they contribute just by paying someone enough money. Sort of like the 1000x developer, in a different industry.
Any tips? Any dos or don'ts? I don't need to deal with companies or workplaces in my regular life and am pretty gormless.
The reason for asking is that the praise that you want to offer may not be in line with their career goals (e.g. if you're praising their management style, decisions, etc but they want to move toward development or support or something). This also gives you an opportunity to communicate the praise directly to them.