Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Thank you!


Appreciation and Gratitude can dramatically improve your, team and company’s performance. Humans need recognition to reach their full potential (Maslow). Saying "thank you" increases the likelihood your employee will not only help you, but help someone else (Adam Grant and Francesca Gino). Receiving thanks creates strong feelings of social value, which inspires us to help further. Being thanked for our community impact also makes us more productive (Adam Grant). In turn, being grateful excites positive emotions, strengthens social relationships and leads to higher creativity and productivity.


Effective Appreciation is sincere, timely and specific, complimenting the process and the results the act produced for the company and yourself. “The open and collaborative feedback on the client deck is appreciated! Look forward to continue the collaboration!”  Appreciation Cards are a very quick and easy mechanism to send a personalized Thank You note to an employee and their manager for living the MphasiS values. Like a Bitcoin chain, an appreciation note can motivate the receiver to send a note of their own fostering a Give and Take (Adam Grant) culture. A critical mass of such notes can like a fission chain reaction cause an explosive surge of employee engagement and cooperation producing industry leading results.


Have you helped or appreciated someone today? Just do it and be delighted. Thank you!

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