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Across industries, every measure of morale, productivity, performance, customer satisfaction, and employee retention soars when managers regularly provide recognition.
Leaders rated in the bottom 10% for providing recognition had employees at the 27th percentile on engagement. By contrast, those leaders rated in the top 10% had employees at the 69th percentile.
So - how can we begin to start giving more recognition to our employees? Listen in to find out how.
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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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