Monday Tip Praise a co-worker - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Monday Tip Praise a co-worker - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog Heres a fun, easy thing to do, to give one lucky co-worker a great start to the work-week. First choose a co-worker you want to give a boost. Someone who deserves it or maybe a person who could really use it. Grab a piece of paper, and write Things we appreciate about John Miller (Or whatever his/her name is) at the top. Then write one thing you appreciate about John and sign your name underneath. Pass it on to another co-worker with instructions to do the same and pass it on. Do all of this without John noticing which can be kinda fun in itself. When everyone has written one thing they appreciate about John, its time to give the paper to him. Here are some ways to do it: Tack it to his PC screen when hes not looking and let him find it there. Hang it on the department bulletin board for everyone to see. Go wild and let the whole department/team show up and hand it over to John in an improvised ceremony that could even include balloons, a song and a speech or two. You could also arrange the writing thing via email, but handwriting on paper has a nice personal touch. The Chief Happiness Officers monday tips are simple, easy, fun things you can do to make yourself and others happy at work and get the work-week off to a great start. Something everyone can do in five minutes, tops. When you try it, write a comment here to tell me how it went. Previous monday tips. Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related Monday tip Praise a co-worker - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog For my very first monday tip, Ill start with something really, really simple but extremely powerful: Praise. Your monday mission: Praise someone. Pick a co-worker and give that person positive feedback. It can be on something he or she has done recently (I really enjoyed your idea about developing the Hansen account) or on what you generally appreciate about that person (I really like the way you always add great ideas to our project meetings). Dont make a big production out of it, just go up to a colleague, deliver your praise and then get back to work. Do not hang around waiting to be praised back :o) Also do not add a but you really need to improve your after the praise :o) Remember that whatever praise you choose to give has to be genuine. You cant praise just to praise, so think about something you truly appreciate about that person. For extra bonus points: Praise someone you dont talk to often. Its a great way to establish contact. Praise your manager. Managers often hear very little praise from their employees. But: Dont kiss butt only genuine praise counts. If you really want a challenge, praise someone you dont like much or someone youre currently having a conflict with. It can be a great way to get un-stuck. Cant think of anything positive about that person? Try again theres always something. The Chief Happiness Officers monday tips are simple, easy, fun things you can do to make yourself and others happy at work and get the work-week off to a great start. Something everyone can do in five minutes, tops. When you try it, write a comment here to tell me how it went. Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related