{"id":5092,"date":"2020-02-25T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.successories.com\/blog\/?p=5092"},"modified":"2022-02-17T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T23:30:16","slug":"the-power-of-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.successories.com\/blog\/the-power-of-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Recognition in the Workplace and the Manager’s Role"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here are some statistics that may surprise you.  Nearly half of all managers say their own\nanxiety increases when they have to give negative feedback to an employee that\nreports to them, which causes them to either delay giving the feedback, or\nsimply not give it at all.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On top of that, fully 40% of managers surveyed say they\nnever give positive reinforcement, either. \nThose are staggering statistics, especially when you consider that a\nsignificant percentage of managers report that they really have no clear idea what\nit is that motivates their employees and how to improve that.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve been wondering the same thing, this article is for\nyou, and given the title of this piece, it will probably not come as a great\nshock to learn that praise, or positive feedback, plays a major role.  The question is:  How major? \nJust how important is positive feedback? \nThe answer might surprise you as much as the other statistics we\u2019ve\nmentioned so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Employees derive fully 70% of their engagement from their managers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is something for which we have a lot of very good, very\nprecise data because over the years, there has been a tremendous amount of\nresearch done on the topic.  It turns out\nthat employees derive fully 70% of their engagement from their managers and a\nbig portion of that stems from the positive feedback they get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understand, however, that not all positive feedback is\ncreated equally.  Simply saying \u201cgood\njob\u201d while poking your head over the cubicle wall isn\u2019t nearly as meaningful as\ntaking a moment to speak genuinely with the employee you\u2019re praising and give\ndetails and specifics, for instance: \n\u201cYou really impressed me at the meeting last week.  Those suggestions you made were spectacular\nexamples of outside the box thinking and we need more of that\u2026thank you.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the kind of thing that really makes an employee feel appreciated and note the \u2018thank you\u2019 at the end.\u00a0 That\u2019s critical too. At Successories, we have a wide selection of employee appreciation gifts<\/a> if you want to take it a step further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giving Positive Feedback Makes Managers More Effective<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, the more positive feedback you give, the more\neffective your employees will see you as being. \nIn addition to being more engaged and productive, they\u2019ll regard you as\na more effective manager, which means that you win in two ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One incredibly easy and effective way to help you develop better habits where employing positive feedback is concerned is to take the time to develop an employee recognition program<\/a> if you have not already done so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A natural side effect of creating such a program is that\nyou\u2019ll immediately begin to look for an increasing number of ways to use it,\nwhich inevitably means finding reasons to single your hardest working employees\nout and recognizing them for a job well done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if you\u2019ve got such a program in place, however, it pays to make use of employee praise outside the context of the program.  In fact, if you make it a staple of your managerial style, you\u2019ll find that all the employees who report to you are happier, more productive and hold you in higher regard which makes your life easier on a number of levels.  Positive feedback.  Try it, and prepare to be impressed by the results!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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