Every year over Christmas and the New Year I put up coloured lights outside the front of our house which welcome us home with festive cheer in the evenings. I add to them and replace broken ones every year. I spoke to someone about this and he said he just could not be bothered. I think this is wrong and that it is a part of the seasonal celebration and lights up what can be grey or wet evenings. They will all come down this weekend and we will be back to the usual drab and dreary January.
It occurs to me that as my lights celebrate the festive season we should recognise and celebrate success whether it is in the professional or personal or sporting worlds. Sometimes perhaps, as a part of our Anglo Saxon nature, we play down triumphs instead of recognising and celebrating and also learning from them. A team that has succeeded in delivering a major project over a long time period should be recognised and its achievements and those of its members rewarded.
See this article Celebrating Achievement which suggests Celebrating achievement can boost confidence and increase motivation. Showing appreciation can also boost your organization's reputation, improve retention, and help to attract top talent. It goes on to discuss what “achievement” is and how to make celebration meaningful taking into account preferences and personalities – and the dynamics of the team – before you hold a celebration.
See also this article How to Celebrate Success at Work which says Celebration breeds more success and adds to the satisfaction you experience when you take note of your accomplishments in the workplace.
I like this Forbes article Recognition In The Workplace: It's Not What You Think It Is which starts as follows:
Dan Ariely, social scientist and New York Times bestselling author, found that lack of acknowledgment of a job well done, and more importantly, downright dismissing a person’s work, has a crushing effect on workers. His study concluded that “When we are acknowledged for our work, we are willing to work harder for less pay, and when we are not acknowledged, we lose much of our motivation.
Sometimes it is as simple as recognition by saying “Thank you” and not about extravagant trips or expensive presents. This article Party time: How smart leaders celebrate employee success suggests The time and cost to offer verbal and written recognition and gratitude to individuals, teams, and organizations for work well done is minimal. It is so easy we might overlook it. Don’t. It also goes on to identify other levels of appreciation available to leaders, managers, and supervisors that can be offeredsuch as informal recognition, planned appreciation, special events, recognition gifts and interestingly a reward risk approach taken by Tata Corporation.
It cites Tom Peters the business author who advises “Celebrate what you want to see more of.”
Or as the American author Dale Carnegie says "People work for money but go the extra mile for recognition, praise and rewards."
It occurs to me that as my lights celebrate the festive season we should recognise and celebrate success whether it is in the professional or personal or sporting worlds. Sometimes perhaps, as a part of our Anglo Saxon nature, we play down triumphs instead of recognising and celebrating and also learning from them. A team that has succeeded in delivering a major project over a long time period should be recognised and its achievements and those of its members rewarded.
See this article Celebrating Achievement which suggests Celebrating achievement can boost confidence and increase motivation. Showing appreciation can also boost your organization's reputation, improve retention, and help to attract top talent. It goes on to discuss what “achievement” is and how to make celebration meaningful taking into account preferences and personalities – and the dynamics of the team – before you hold a celebration.
See also this article How to Celebrate Success at Work which says Celebration breeds more success and adds to the satisfaction you experience when you take note of your accomplishments in the workplace.
I like this Forbes article Recognition In The Workplace: It's Not What You Think It Is which starts as follows:
Dan Ariely, social scientist and New York Times bestselling author, found that lack of acknowledgment of a job well done, and more importantly, downright dismissing a person’s work, has a crushing effect on workers. His study concluded that “When we are acknowledged for our work, we are willing to work harder for less pay, and when we are not acknowledged, we lose much of our motivation.
Sometimes it is as simple as recognition by saying “Thank you” and not about extravagant trips or expensive presents. This article Party time: How smart leaders celebrate employee success suggests The time and cost to offer verbal and written recognition and gratitude to individuals, teams, and organizations for work well done is minimal. It is so easy we might overlook it. Don’t. It also goes on to identify other levels of appreciation available to leaders, managers, and supervisors that can be offeredsuch as informal recognition, planned appreciation, special events, recognition gifts and interestingly a reward risk approach taken by Tata Corporation.
It cites Tom Peters the business author who advises “Celebrate what you want to see more of.”
Or as the American author Dale Carnegie says "People work for money but go the extra mile for recognition, praise and rewards."
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