"...
the number-one reason people leave organizations is that they don't feel appreciated", notes the U.
S.
Department of Labour according to a recent Gallup Poll report.
The lack of appreciation leads to high costs in business paid for having to replace valuable co-workers that go somewhere else in need for being valued and appreciated.
Appreciation is nourishment for the soul and a high motivator to produce quality results.
I guess we all remember those days in school when we failed a task and got blamed or ridiculed in front of others.
Many carry those memories like a stamp on their self-esteem.
Appreciation serves like a healing force for the wounded self-esteem and as an encouragement to step beyond our own limitations.
Make sure you don't mix up appreciation with a kind of polite or fake sincerity.
Appreciation is a quality of the heart, a quality we often need to develop in ourselves and for ourselves at the same time as we practice to appreciate others for their contribution.
Appreciation is a communication skill that goes beyond a saying like: "Well done, Joe.
" Make your appreciation meaningful describing specifically what the giver did, and what need that fulfilled for you.
That will help the person that you appreciate to accept the appreciation as a genuine expression of your gratitude.
Don't appreciate somebody if you don't really mean it.
You will just pass on a double message, as the person that you appreciate will feel the dishonest energy that comes with it.
Don't use appreciation as a device to wrap up your criticism.
It will only teach your recipients to expect a slap after a positive stroke.
Give it, when the occasion occurs.
Within a culture of appreciation, criticism becomes feedback for learning rather than a stamp on self-esteem.
Appreciation is even more than a tool of change for personal healing, motivation or as a toll for improving your relationships.
Appreciation can serve as a tool of change in how we relate to our environment.
We got used to see nature as a platform that needs to serve our human needs instead of acknowledging our interdependence with nature, which is the result of a genuine appreciative attitude towards nature.
We pay the cost in climate changes, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes or earthquakes.
If we learn to genuinely appreciate nature again as the base for nurturing our human needs, we shift from an exploitative to a co-operative relationship.
This would need to have an impact on our cultural life style like the use of cars, eating habits and the use of resources for light and heating.
Appreciating nature also means that we need to appreciate our own nature, our body in a different way.
Many see the body like a machine that just needs to be kept in shape for work.
If we really appreciate our body as the living and vibrant base of our existence, we would make sure to feed it healthy and allow time to replenish its vital force regularly.
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