How to Show Appreciation to Employees

Do you want to discover how to show appreciation to employees?

In this episode of the Process Breakdown Podcast, author and motivational speaker Chester Elton revealed the steps to take to appreciate your employees and show them gratitude based on his decades of experience helping clients understand the value of appreciating their employees.

He described how a little bit of gratitude can make an employee want to do a great job. Chester tells a beautiful story of how a company he used to work for showed him appreciation and other stories that give testimony to the power of recognition and showing gratitude.

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Key Resource List:

* Leading with Gratitude: Eight Leadership Practices for Extraordinary Business Results* The Culture Works

Show Notes:

0:06 – Introduction

1:26 – Dr. Weisz shares the best solution for documenting standard operating procedures, highlighting a 14-day free trial of SweetProcess.

2:00 – Jeremy introduces the guest speaker, Chester Elton, who talks about some of the books he’s written and some of his achievements.

3:13 – Chester talks about his co-author Adrian Gostick, and the study of workplace culture they’ve been dedicated to for 20 years, learning about gratitude and the recognition of people.

4:32 – Chester explains how expressing gratitude is a learned skill and how the tool of gratitude is a good tool to use for spurring productivity.

5:30 – The guest speaker gives an example of Humbert Joly, who turned Best Buy around financially by using the principle of appreciation and gratitude. He explains how making work meaningful is a way to engage people’s hearts, not just their minds.

7:17- Chester talks about his favorite methods of celebrations companies show to staff and team members, giving Toronto FC’s celebration as an example.

9:14 – Chester gives more examples, talking about the steps Books-A-Million takes to promote gratitude within their employees, and Carlos Aguilera’s ten-coin method.

12:10 – The guest speaker tells the story of how the company he worked for sent flowers to his wife at home, showing gratitude for Chester going on work trips for the company.

14:00 – Chester tells another story about Garry Ridge, and how he started to up his gratitude and appreciation, referring to his company as a tribe.

17:07 – The guest speaker talks about his most skeptical client Humbert Joly, and how he completely transformed once he saw the light; and Dave Kirpan, a classic cynical New York man, how he tried the gratitude process,