Comments on: Monday tip: Praise a co-worker

By: Tina Rowe

Tina Rowe — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:02:09 +0000

Hello, Alexander. This was an excellent post and reflects my own training about the topic. (Well, it would be good if it didn’t reflect my training, but the fact that it does makes it spectacular! :-)

I especially mention, as you did, praising someone who you don’t care for much, and praising a supervisor or manager. As I mention–and those in my audiences know I speak from experience–it really IS lonely at the top! Those ideas are the two that many people contact me about later and say it was good feeling for them AND the other person.

I’ll look around your site and put it on a feed so I can be reminded to check in often. It seems to be very, very effective material. Best wishes! Tina Lewis Rowe

By: Alexander Kjerulf

Alexander Kjerulf — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:55:36 +0000

What a nice thing to do for a co-worker Yvette, and what agreat way to do it. Way to go!

And it’s nice to know that it made a difference. I’ve always felt that a fault-finding culture just makes people more likely to goof up.

By: Yvette

Yvette — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:36:05 +0000

We’ve got a temporary worker (former intern) that goofed up last week so people were kind of getting on his case. I could see that he was loosing pleasure in his work and making more mistakes because he wasn’t feeling well. Last monday at our weekly meeting I decided to give him a compliment that I had saved for such an occasion.

I told him about an event that happened a few weeks ago. One of the departments that he dealt with had asked me how it was that he still worked here. I told them we had hired him to cover the holiday season to which the department said they were glad he was still there because he was always so helpful and fun to be around.

When I told the temp this, he was really surprised and happy. He started with a positive note and hasn’t goofed up all week :-)

By: Alexander Kjerulf

Alexander Kjerulf — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:19:42 +0000

That’s wonderful Vianney – I’m glad to hear it works :o)

By: Vianney Lecroart

Vianney Lecroart — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:58:07 +0000

I try to praise a friend every monday and to be honest, I just receive a great praise from a guy and it’s clear that to be praised is a very good boost! We had lot of stormy discussion together in the past and it’s even better to hear this praise from him!

By: Alexander Kjerulf

Alexander Kjerulf — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:04:42 +0000

Emme: Thank you for being the first to try out on of these tips and report back. I’m glad it worked

Please also let me know how it goes with the other guy :o)

By: emme

emme — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:26:06 +0000

Today I praised a co-worker from the political team for her memorandums – I know she puts a lot of work into them and I just wanted to let her know that her writing style puts even complex stuff into my range of understanding.
She was very surprised and very pleased.

Tomorrow I have a meeting with a co-worker that I actively dislike – I’ll try to praise him too, it wasn’t so hard after all.