Acknowledgement Habits- A month to make your employees happy

Acknowledgement Habit 30 Days To a Happy Employees Dottie Bruce Gandy

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves. It is amazing what they can accomplish
Sam Walton

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying “Make me feel important”

Background Business Sense

The High Cost of Low Trust
Trust and profit:
Companies in which the employees trusted the top executives posted average shareholder returns 42% points higher in companies where distrust was the rule

Beyond Paycheck
Employees who feel acknowledged for who they are and what they contribute tend to stay with their organizations’
4 th Level of Human Needs according to Maslow Hierarchies

How to do it? Methods

Method
Invites us to share face-to-face, a different quality and trait that we admire and appreciate about another person- every day for thirty days
or
Once a day, for thirty days, share with someone whose relationship is important to you a different quality or trait that you admire, appreciate, or value about the person

Guidelines (1/3)
Select someone you meet daily
Tell the person what you are doing
Set an agreed upon time and place
Ask your partner to accept our comment gracefully. A simple “TQ” is sufficient
Discover their traits and quality along the way
Have fun along the way

Guidelines (2/3)
Keep a list of traits as you go along
One thing at a day; no accumulative
Separate current happenings of the recipient from your feelings about that persons
No hidden agenda. Just acknowledge another person’s quality and traits

Guidelines (3/3)
Expect the relationships to be transformed
Thank the person in your closure. Give the person the list. Close with style and grace
Let yourself discover some of the quality Along the way
Give a specific example for each trait that is shared

Prework
If you start the process, be committed to finishing it
Share the traits in person
The partner you select should be the partner you select
Choose a partner with whom you have a healthy relationship
Tell your partner what you are doing

Conversation
“ I am working on doing a better job of letting people who are important to me know how much I appreciate their contribution (to our workplace, our family, or community, this friendship, whatever). Since you are one of those persons for me, would it be all right of once a day, over the next thirty days, I share a different quality, attribute, or trait that I admire and appreciate about you?”

Process
Hit the wall in the middle of 30 days
Observe the person more

What’s the point? Impact

Impact
Happy employee
Feel appreciated and valued
Experience less stress and less burnout
Take ownership of organization’s success
Productive and loyalty increases
Open communication
Humor
Deeper awareness of their qualities and strength
The receiver reconnect with his or her intrinsic goodness and the impact it has on his or her relationship with others

a. It takes one to know one
Mirror effect – Others are only mirrors of you by Dr Cheri Carter Scott
What I see in you that I like myself is ………………………………..
“ As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.”

Coming back to us
If you see these qualities in others, then they exist in you. If not, toy would not be able to see them in others.
You posses the qualities you see in others
Example: Car, GBF

More…
We are shining a spotlight on our own qualities as we acknowledging others
If hidden, now awake

b. Domino Effect
When someone does something nice for me, I turn around and do something nice for someone else. That’s domino effect as its best
- Louise Hay

More
Taking care of employee and letting feel valued are two great ways to take care of business bottom line.
How?
Personal acknowledgement
Public praise
Tell them how difference each of them had made in their life

Where can I apply? Application

Company
Make ma a poster child
Post a blank flip chart page for each person present, with his name on top of the page. Participants write down one trait or quality they admired or appreciated about each person. Share the traits in last day.

More
I am going to tell your mother what you did!
Mixing praise with profits
Write one down and pass it around
Take a note…literally
Litterman’s :Top 0” Idea to praise
Email “two things we love about you”

Leaders
Appreciate people
Go and see
Remember their names
Work together with them once in a while
Acknowledge employees
Take fear out from work
Organize the work process and work place

Appraising Performance
Look at pass achievement and the success factors so that they can repaet doing it
Look at future development plan
Coach them of their areas need to develop in day-to-day
Praise them 10 days before the PA

Begins at Home
One man cannot do right in one department of life while he is occupied doing wrong in any other department. Life is one invisible whole.
Mahatma Gandhi

Family
Acknowledge yourself for 30 days
Acknowledge your spouse for 30 days
Acknowledge your children for 30 days

Now What?
Tell the truth about what an absence of acknowledgement cost
Create spending plan for the surplus that acknowledgement creates
Cultivate the habit of acknowledgement
Share the results!

I can live a long time on a good compliment
- Mark Twain

Acknowledgement Habits- A month to make your employees happy

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