Workplace Positivity
This podcast expands on the wisdom and insight from the book: Workplace Positivity Guide and Workbook by Nicole Phillips and Neal Nybo. Neal and Nicole provide clear, basic, and repeatable steps leaders and managers can use to develop the best in their people. Their practical and inspirational advice provides concrete action steps any leader or manager can use. What’s more, their passion for communicating grows out of their conviction that kindness is a vital element missing in many companies and organizations today. Their strategies, based on solid research, are steeped in kindness and will spread this much-needed quality throughout companies that implement them.
Episodes
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
How would you like a 355% increase in an employee’s sense of appreciation? That’s how much formal recognition increases appreciation! There is no need to wait for an annual review or event.Sending an email to the team with the same kinds of expressions of appreciation and thanks is a great idea and covers many of the same bases as any formal recognition.
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
79% of employees cite a lack of appreciation as the reason why they are leaving their current employer. On the other hand, a “simple, deliberate ‘thank you’ increases employee appreciation by 116%. How do people know we appreciate them if we don’t tell them? One of the best ways to demonstrate this kind of a simple and deliberate thank you is in a meeting.
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
We all appreciate tech support when we need it. How about a little text support? This is an individual or group text to thank one or more people.
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
To praise publicly means to celebrate, thank, or recognize someone in front of others, not in big, grand ways that might even embarrass them but in small ways. Just remember, it’s a micro-action.
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Is being personal just another tool we use to increase performance? I truly hope you have already answered: “Absolutely not.” Let’s be clear. Nothing in this workbook is about manipulating anyone. People can see right through disingenuous attempts to be friendly. Genuine kindness makes the happiest kinds of people. That's what we are all about.
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
There is a fine line between being personal and being too personal, between respecting and not respecting their space. We all know the difference at an academic level. We need to get good at recognizing it on a practical level. It’s easy to cross the line without noticing, and certainly, without intending.
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
BE BRIEF! No one wants to be stuck in a long conversation, even a nice one. It’s a
matter of respecting another person’s time.
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Imagine the power of a heartfelt connection with no ulterior motives to lift a
person’s spirits and banish negativity from the moment. That's the point of this micro-action.
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Asking questions is a brilliant way to avoid miscommunication. When we ask
questions, we get information we hadn’t previously had. Shocking, I know. And it
works both ways.
Monday Oct 14, 2024
Monday Oct 14, 2024
What would the office look like if everyone shifted their perspective to include grace shown to those they work with? Just the word “grace” brings our heart rates down a few notches. It reminds us we’re all on a journey and no one has arrived at that place of perfection. We all need to give each other a break.