Yes. Celebrate.
High fives. Atta girls. Good job milkshakes. 4 o’clock happy hours.
It can be anything. What matters is that you celebrate. Celebrate the great work your folks do every day. Tell them often. It’s so simple but we don’t do it. Instead we take our terrific employees for granted. Not always, of course. When we do take time to think about it, we find ourselves being grateful for the incredible work everyone does. The problem is we’re busy. It’s hard to find that moment to sit back and just be grateful. And even when we do, we forget to mention it to the employees we’re feeling grateful for. Then we’re singing a Joni Mitchell ballad…
“….You Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)…”But forget about turnover. Just think about production. Here are four reasons you should be celebrating more with your team.
- People enjoy work more when they feel good about what they do. This includes the value that’s placed on them and the quality of their work. I’m not saying you can’t overdo this, but rarely do leaders over-compliment their team. Try doing it more often.
- Your employees are just people. They get down. They have personal stuff going on. Being told that they did a good job on something could change their whole day and give them the bit of encouragement they need to push through some of the more doll-drum tasks they deal with every day.
- When you do the same thing every day – sit in the same office, under the same fluorescent lights, breathing the same not-so-fresh air – sometimes motivation is hard to come by. As a leader, you’re likely someone your team respects – which means you have immense opportunities to be the pick-me-up on a teammate’s bad day....
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