Robert Watkins comments about insincere appreciation in response to my post on the recognition gap:A good example is the concept of the “Praise Sandwich”: take one piece of praise, one piece of criticism, and another piece of praise….and how he...
My recent posts on appreciation prompted Dale Emery to write about his experiences with appreciation.I offered people an opportunity to express appreciation to their colleagues for things they had done.The people in the room—hardcore geeks all—had no trouble offering...
This email from the Gallup organization landed in my mailbox this morning:Sixty-five percent of Americans received NO praise or recognition in the workplace in the last year, reports a Gallup Poll.And the number-one reason people leave organizations is that they...
Johanna reports on our continuing adventure in pair writing here, Her lessons learned for the week (high overlap with my lessons learned) are:We don’t have the same default ways to write — and that’s ok. The manuscript is richer for us talking...
Johanna and I have been writing again this week. Last time, as my faithful readers may recall, I owned the keyboard, and Johanna watched over my shoulder. She noticed all my little typing quirks, like backing up to fix typos. She really hated that one. This week,...
Here’s a little snippet from a Fast Company article on John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market: Before the adjournment of every business meeting at Whole Foods, including the ones that Mackey conducts, participants do a round of “appreciations,”...
Johanna pointed out on her blog how pair-writing is different from pair-programming. But I suspect the two are similar in many ways, too. Here’s what stood out for me in my pair-writing with Johanna: Conflict comes with collaboration. Conflict is part and parcel...
I was talking to a friend last week who works for an expert… in how to stifle teamwork. It’s simple, really: Establish two classes of membership on the team, then follow these steps to ensure that all are aware of the distinction. 1) Bring in donuts for the team every...
A while back I posted a little piece on Lewin’s succinct statement B=f(P,E). That little post grew up to be an article, posted on stickyminds. (It’s on the front page this week, after this week you might have to do a search to find it.)
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about an article in HBR that talked about the magic that “people people” do. Now the article is excerpted here.And to go with it, here’s a snippet from a post by Dave Hoover, who, I suspect, is a very much a people...
