Comments on: Specific praise is good praise

By: Substralificering – fem tips til at få samarbejdet til at gro « Katrine Dahl Clement

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:56:00 +0000

[...] siger også vores egen Chief Happiness Officer Alexander Kjerulf og øser ud af sin glæde, og god ros er specifik, har jeg en gang sagt ovre på hans blog Positive [...]

By: Lars Hoffmann

Lars Hoffmann — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:05:13 +0000

Certainly! A psychological experiment of school children on praise showed that general abstract praise caused the children to quit quicker and become more easily frustrated than children receiving specific praise when faced with math pieces they could not solve! Quite interesting.

By: You… are great!

You… are great! — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:58:06 +0000

[...] Specific praise is good praise. [...]

By: Chris Sims

Chris Sims — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:01:56 +0000

Compliments and criticism are the two edges of the feedback sword. So, this generalizes well to ‘feedback must be specific’. In particular, you want to clearly describe the behavior that you observed. For instance: “Bob, I see that while you were fixing that bug you also added several new tests and refactored the module.�? Now that Bob knows exactly what you are going to compliment him on, tell him about the impact this will have: “That will really make it easier for people to work in that module in the future, and probably prevent some bugs too!�? At this point, if we were delivering criticism, we would request a change in behavior. Since we are giving a compliment, we can simply say thank you: “I really appreciate you doing that. Thanks.�?

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:27:37 +0000

Wow, what a good point. I am forwarding this article to a couple of my coworkers. Unfortunately, our boss has a way of constantly berating the amount of time we spend at work, then feels guilty about it, and gives very general, sweeping compliments. I feel that this article is pretty clear about more effective, and considerate praise.

Thank you (I have your site on my igoogle and love reading it).
Vanessa

By: simplerich » It's all about praising praise... specifically specific praise

simplerich » It's all about praising praise... specifically specific praise — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:49:41 +0000

[...] you keep on hearing it. That means it bears repeating. Alexander Kjerulf in his blog over at positivesharing.com shares an e-mail that talks about the most effective kind of praise. It refers to the most [...]