Comments on: Make Employee Praise Worthy, Not Worthless

By: Warren Greshes

Warren Greshes — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:13:18 +0000

You are not crazy, unless, of course, someone who believes that doing the minimum is not praise-worthy can be considered crazy. Rest assured there are many others like you and me out there. We just have to make sure we're heard from. You'll be glad to know the online version of the Wall St. Journal picked up my article and linked it to the one I had quoted from.

Keep up the good fight and thanks for the great comment and terrific story.

By: Michele

Michele — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:44:17 +0000

When I read this statement, I about almost choked on my coffee".....They?re also lousy at basking in other people?s glory, which makes for problems in work and marriage relationships....." As a Bank Manager, I recently had the opportunity to publicly recognize 6 employees whose stellar
"way beyond the minimum performance standard", greatly contributed to our bank reaching some important goals. You should have heard the grumblings from the other employees. No one seemed to be able to be happy for them, many were actually grumbling.

Mind you, there were no accusations of favoritism and no one could dispute that the 6 didn't work hard...it's just that they felt that they too should receive recognition and for what? As one person said to me "We worked too", Yeah if that's what you want to call it.

Thanks for the article , I'd noticed this trend and now I realize that I'm not crazy.

By: JOHN BAKER

JOHN BAKER — Tue, 08 May 2007 22:53:32 +0000

I WAS TOLD IN BASIC TRAINING THAT IT WAS A CONFIDENCE
COURSE. WE LEARNED TO LAUGH AT OURSELVES AND WE LEARNED TEAM SPIRIT. WE WERE CORRECTED AND TAUGHT
NOT ABUSED. I WAS LUCKY THAT I WAS NEVER IN A WAR
ZONE BUT I KNOW THAT I HAD GREAT TRAINING I RECEIVED
BY ACHIEVING. I HAVE CARRIED THIS THROUGHOUT MY LIFE.