How and Why to Tell Your Employees You Appreciate Them

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Is that time of year again.

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The time of year when we reflect.

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On all the things we're thankful for.

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Or the time of year where we're

supposed to reflect on all the

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things we're thankful for it.

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So this year, you may want to focus on

telling your employees and colleagues,

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how much you appreciate them.

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Across industries, every

measure of morale, productivity,

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performance, customer satisfaction,

and employee retention, sores.

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When managers regularly

provide recognition.

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Welcome to episode 1 72 of this shit

works, a podcast dedicated to all

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things, networking, relationship

building and business development.

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I'm your host, Julie Brown.

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Speaker author and networking coach.

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And today I'm discussing.

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How to tell your employees,

you appreciate them.

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As most of you know, I'm an avid

reader of the Harvard business review.

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And each issue has this small

segment in the front called idea.

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Watch it's usually just a couple

of pages, but the short blips

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describing the results of some

interesting new studies or research.

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In a recent idea, watch

there was one headline.

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Recognition is the key to engagement.

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With one short paragraph after analyzing

the results of hundreds of thousands

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of three hundred sixty reviews.

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And what it showed regarding the

link between employee recognition.

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And engagement.

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The blurb only a paragraph long

sighted, a more in depth, Harvard

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business review article titled.

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Do you tell your employees,

you appreciate them?

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So I was like, that sounds interesting.

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So I went to the.

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Harvard business review website and

found the article and then jumped

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into it and the research around it.

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Here's the skinny.

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The study showed the impact

of giving recognition.

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On levels of employee

engagement within companies.

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So leaders rated in the bottom 10%

per four, providing recognition.

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Had employees at the 27th percentile

on engagement, not kidding.

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27th percentile.

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By contrast.

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Those leaders rated in the

top percent for providing.

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It recognition.

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Had employees that were

at the 69th percentile.

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So much, much higher.

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The data also showed that managers who

were more inclined to give recognition

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were also perceived at being better

at collaboration and teamwork.

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Being open to feedback from

others, building relationships.

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And inspiring and motivating.

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So.

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We can see that it's important to

be able to give recognition to.

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To our employees, into our colleagues.

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So here are some tips for giving

better recognition and this

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comes straight from the article.

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Which I'll put a link in the show

notes, but I also want to mention this

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article was written by Jack zinger,

the CEO and Joseph Folkman, the

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president of zinger Folkman, which is

a leadership development consultancy.

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So their tips were.

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One improve this substance meaning.

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Giving appreciation that is

specific is far more powerful

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than a general good job comment.

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And don't just recognize

positive outcomes.

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Recognize all the little

individual actions.

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That led up to that big,

positive outcome along the way.

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Too.

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Improve the delivery.

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So a couple of ways to do this would be

to make sure the recognition is timely.

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You know, the sooner, the better.

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Also when it comes to recognition,

respect those who prefer their

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recognition to be in private and more

personal, who aren't into big displays

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of recognition in front of other people.

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And don't always just make

it a verbal recognition.

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Cards and notes are mementos

that people will hold onto.

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And remember the recognition

that you gave them.

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And then another tip is

to increase the frequency.

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With which you give recognition this way.

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You get better at giving recognition and

also your team gets more comfortable.

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With receiving it.

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The truth is.

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We've all heard the importance of

recognition and yet many leaders

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are not doing enough of it.

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So.

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This week.

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As we think back on all the

things that we're grateful for.

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Let's take a moment to thank

and acknowledge our employees

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and our colleagues and that

the, and the work that they do.

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Okay.

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Onto the drinker of the week, which

if you've listened to this podcast for

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half a second, you know, I hate pie.

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It's the worst thing about Thanksgiving.

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For me at least.

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So this week I'm opting for a desert ish.

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Cocktail that serves two purposes for you.

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It's the sweetness of a dessert

and also has the kick of caffeine

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to help stave off any post.

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Miele food comas that might happen.

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It's a chocolate espresso martini

brought to you by kitchen swagger.

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And here's what you're going to need.

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One and a half ounces of vanilla vodka.

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One ounce of instant espresso, or

fresh espresso for me, I have to

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use decaf espresso since I'm not

allowed to have caffeine, which

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totally sucks when you're tired, but

I still like the flavor of coffee.

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So I'll just make this Def

to caffeinated for myself.

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One ounce of Godiva chocolate liquor,

one ounce of Kalua or coffee, liquor.

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Half ounce of Irish cream.

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And then, you know, if you want to like

garnish your rim chocolate syrup for the

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rim and coffee beans, if you have those as

a garnish, here's what you're going to do.

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If you want a garnish,

your martini glasses.

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You put some chocolate syrup on a

plate and then dip that chilled coupe

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upside down and the chocolate syrup.

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And it should kind of a little bit hard.

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And around that cold glass.

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Make your espresso like

you would normally do.

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Okay.

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And then.

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What we're going to do is we're

going to combine all ingredients

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in a cocktail shaker, the vodka.

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The espresso, the chocolate, Lucara

the coffee liquor, the Irish cream.

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All of it.

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In a cocktail shaker.

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And then we're going to add ice.

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Okay.

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So add ice.

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After we have everything in there.

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And then shake it, shake it, shake it,

shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it.

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And then pour it into your chilled.

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You know, martini glass or coop

class coupe glass works perfect too.

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Which has garnished with that chocolate.

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And then if you want tossa coffee bean.

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On top as another garnish.

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Our friends.

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That's all for this week.

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