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Do You Give a GIFT When You Praise?

By Michael Wilkinson, CMF, CPF

Do you give a GIFT when you praise? I don't mean a book, a gift certificate, or something tangible. I mean, do you praise in such a way that your people really feel appreciated? This was a lesson I learned the hard way.

About a decade ago, one of our facilitators received a letter of praise from a client. Let's say the name of the client was Q-Health Systems. The next time I ran into the facilitator, I said, "I saw the Q-Health letter. Great job."

In a different conversation with the same person a few weeks later, the facilitator mentioned to me, "You really should praise people more." I was surprised at the comment, and, just by way of an example reminded the person of the praise that I had given related to the Q-Health letter. The facilitator said, "That was praise?" I was shocked at the question.

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