During Career Readiness, we set up a Wall of Thanks and students wrote thank you notes to faculty, staff and other students that will be delivered this week. We did this because effective teams foster an atmosphere of thanks. (If you would like to participate, I have extra thank you notes that you can get from me. Just drop by my office.)
Watch this short Poncho Exercise here and reflect upon how it could be beneficial to a team. Read the text below and watch an interview here with Eric Mosley, the author of The Power of Thanks. See the assignment below.
The Power of Thanks: How Social Recognition Empowers Employees and Creates a Best Place to Work
by Eric Mosley (Goodreads Author), Derek Irvine
Reference – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21547941-the-power-of-thanks
The most powerful word in your leadership vocabulary is . . . THANKS! Building a fully engaged, energized workforce is the key to business success. The Power of Thanks reveals how leading companies like Intuit, JetBlue Airways, IHG, Symantec, ConAgra Foods, and The Hershey Company empower employees through social recognition, in which the practice of mutual appreciation and trust directs and rewards higher performance.
Eric Mosley and Derek Irvine, executives at the world-renowned employee recognition firm Globoforce, explain why social recognition is so powerful and how you can apply it in your company. Case by case, they show how a carefully planned and consistently executed Culture of Recognition business strategy inspires:
Greater employee engagement and loyalty
Stronger, more unified teams and departments
A creative, innovative company culture
Improved customer satisfaction
Increased profitability and organizational health
Mosley and Irvine provide practical advice and proven examples for devising a powerful, growth-generating strategy that modernizes employee recognition for today’s social, global, multi-generational and 24×7 wired workforce.
When employees participate in a culture that makes everyone a stakeholder in the organization’s success, positive energy spreads like wildfire, and business results follow. Something so simple and powerful might work like magic, but it’s really just common sense. It’s smart management. It’s long-term thinking.
It’s The Power of Thanks.
Assignment – Now, write your paper summarizing what you have learned from the Poncho exercise and the interview. Can showing appreciation really add to an organization’s bottom line?
Sample Solution
