Grateful to a colleague of mine for discovering a recent scientific study on the power behind giving people compliments.
How frequently do you compliment people? Are you reluctant to compliment someone? What could stop us from complimenting people?
We will explore and answers these questions and give implications for what you can do to give more compliments and better recognition.
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How well do you consistently compliment the people you work with for their positive qualities?
To become more consistent and alert to the opportunities for complimenting those you work with requires gaining certain personal habits of communication and a level of understanding about compliments.
Let’s explore this further.
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Our companies have oodles of great employees who deserve red carpet treatment. We need to make sure we celebrate their achievements and recognize their hard work and contributions. Many of our employees quietly, and consistently, perform amazing work behind the scenes. Apply these Top 10 Ways and make your great employees feel like stars. (more…)
A whole year has gone by and it’s March 1st again. I want to wish you a happy World Compliment Day.
Our friend, Hans Poortvliet, from the Netherlands, helped create this special day. He wanted to build awareness of the importance of complimenting people. That was 16 years ago when he started National Compliment Day. Now, the concept has spread so fast it has become an international event just a few years later.
A compliment, according to the Oxford Dictionary, is simply “a polite expression of praise or admiration.”
A compliment might also include a personal commendation, or even a formal act or demonstration of civility, respect, or regard for someone. (more…)
Ever receive a compliment from someone, or they say thank you to you, and you start questioning how sincere they really are with what they said?
While you might not be right all the time it seems science has picked up on this intuitive ability we have.
Karyn Fish, from McGill University, and her colleagues, outline in their “The sound of (in)sincerity” research, how we have a pretty good ear for identifying genuine praise and recognition. (more…)