Giving your employees recognition

This morning my husband was getting my little girl out of bed as I walked past the door to her room half asleep and groggy. Moments later – tears.

Confused I walked back into the room only to discover I was in fact the cause of the tears.

As I’d walked past the doorway my little girl had seen me and had sent a huge smile my way. Without any acknowledgement from me as I disappeared – tears ensued.

After revelling in my parenting fail and smothering my tiny one in masses of kisses it hit me that I’m guilty of doing a similar thing in the workplace at times.

Despite knowing that many people need praise and recognition in a workplace, I’m sometimes a blur of emails and tasks and instructions.

When was the last time you stopped to acknowledge someone in your workplace? Neglecting to smile or offer a word of praise might not result in tears, but think of the added benefits to the working atmosphere if you remembered to do it more often.

Who needs your attention right now?

Kirsty Dunphey is the youngest ever Australian Telstra Young Business Woman of the Year, author of two books (her latest release is Retired at 27, If I Can do it Anyone Can) and a passionate entrepreneur who started her first business at age 15 and opened her own real estate agency at 21. Now Kirsty does lots of fun things which you can read about here. Her favourite current projects are Elephant Property, a boutique property management agency, Baby Teresa, a baby clothing line that donates an outfit to a baby in need for each one they sell andReallySold, which helps real estate agents stop writing boring, uninteresting ads.