The Art of Grateful Leadership

How can you help hold yourself more accountable for following through with your Acknowledgment and Grateful Leadership commitments?

Well, the easiest way is to ask for help. Ask someone that you can count on to let you know when you are doing things right, and when you might miss something. Someone that you trust to point you in the right direction.

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I keep asking myself, what is it about acknowledgment and gratitude that keeps me going? I mean, here I am in my third year of the Art of Grateful Leadership podcast, and this is my 139th episode. It seems that I seldom run out of topics to talk about. I guess I have just been blessed when it comes to this topic.

But WHY do I keep doing this? What is driving me? Why do I continue publishing this podcast week after week?

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Welcome to the Art of Grateful Leadership Podcast

Over the last couple episodes I’ve had a particular theme when it comes to building the acknowledgment / grateful leader habit. The point that the WHY is more important than the HOW. And the WHY is the part that fuels the desire to acknowledge someone.

Have you ever met someone that has the fire of desire within them? The one that just gets them to do whatever it takes to complete a task or make something happen?

Well, I know someone that has that same type of desire when it comes to The Power of Acknowledgment and Grateful Leadership. It is none other than Judy Umlas.

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Welcome to the Art of Grateful Leadership Podcast

This is the third in a series of episodes giving you some tips regarding how to acknowledge.

I’m going to say it again:

I can’t stress enough that desire is the beginning of learning

It’s the beginning of becoming a better acknowledger

If you know the “Why?”

AND

It’s a powerful enough “Why?”

You will find the how.

I’ve heard it said that:

Thoughts build Actions

Actions build Habits

Habits build Character

and 

Character builds Destiny

I can assume that you have the thoughts to acknowledge others; you are listening to this podcast. We are talking about the actions, about how to acknowledge another person

The next step is to take a deep breath, and talk to the other person. Let the acknowledgment you have brewing in your mind out. Summon up that amount of courage and let the other person know that who they are has touched the life of another person.

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In the previous episode, I spoke of giving you some tips regarding how to acknowledge. I can’t stress enough that desire is the beginning of learning. It’s the beginning of becoming a better "acknowledger".

As I’ve said before, if you know the “Why?”, and it’s a powerful enough “Why?”, you will find the how.

So let’s go back and revisit that key question: “Why do I want to be better at acknowledgment?”

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Welcome to the Art of Grateful Leadership podcast

When reflecting on the topic of acknowledgment, I started thinking about what would stop someone from acknowledging another person. I can give examples and how I do it. That’s what I’ve been doing for a long time, and a lot of episodes of the Art of Grateful Leadership 

Judy Umlas’ book, The Power of Acknowledgment, is just full of Stories and facts about the gratitude habit. I hope you’ve read it

But that may not help for everyone. Are you one of those people that sit and hear an acknowledgment story and then says, exactly how did you do it?

Each of us spends time with certain professionals

They are:

• Customer Service Representatives
• Cashiers
• Salespeople
• Receptionists
• Customer Support People
• Doctors
• Lawyers
• Accountants
• and more...

Do you ever think about acknowledging them?

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In this episode I want to talk about Gratitude

And how this time of the year brings out the best in all of us

As the song goes…

“It’s the most wonderful time of the year!”

About this time every year we sit down and think about all that has happened around us

Come listen in.

And Be Thankful!

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Welcome to the Art of Grateful Leadership podcast

In this episode we are going to examine what I call “acknowledgment relationships and how being in those relationships is an acknowledgment of who we are.

 have identified three very special relationships in my life that I see as being filled with acknowledgment and inspire me to continue to acknowledge people everywhere.

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In this episode, I’m going to tell you about a team where 

Acknowledging the team had little effect

But when I acknowledged the key player

The catalyst of the group

Things took off.

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