Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work
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Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work
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Re: Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work
#2Our group uses a chat bot, which plays silly games at random times. Sometimes the challenge is like "Say thanks to somebody to earn some points". Those points are useless gamification tokens, but maybe it helps to encourage gratitude. There was always somebody who took that challenge so far.
Re: Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work
#3Our group uses a chat bot, which plays silly games at random times. Sometimes the challenge is like "Say thanks to somebody to earn some points". Those points are useless gamification tokens, but maybe it helps to encourage gratitude. There was always somebody who took that challenge so far.
That's cool! Which bot?
Re: Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work
#4> 2. Thank the people who never get thanked
I always make a point of telling anyone in IT at whatever company I worked for that I appreciated what they did and knew it was a thankless job.
It's one of those areas where if you do a perfect job no one knows you're there and you're only high-profile when you screw up.
I've found over the years that they'll pay back that kindness ten-fold and often when you're in some sort of gnarly bind where time is critical.
Re: Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work
#5Is it really gratitude if you cultivate it? Can you really become mindful/thankful/x via pure practice? If it makes sense and is logical why can't you instantly become thankful, why do you practice?
I see ton's of people in daily life who have cultivated modesty (eg: politicians, ceo's ect) . It is so obvious that its fake, why do ppl do this?
Re: Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work
#6Is it really gratitude if you cultivate it? Can you really become mindful/thankful/x via pure practice? If it makes sense and is logical why can't you instantly become thankful, why do you practice? I see ton's of people in daily life who have cultivated modesty (eg: politicians, ceo's ect) . It is so obvious that its fake, why do ppl do this?
It's not "fake gratitude", it's "verbalizing real gratitude". The article is about cultivating an environment where gratitude is known.
Re: Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work
#7> 2. Thank the people who never get thanked I always make a point of telling anyone in IT at whatever company I worked for that I appreciated what they did and knew it was a thankless job. It's one of those areas where if you do a perfect job no one knows you're there and you're only high-profile when you screw up. I've found over the years that they'll pay back that kindness ten-fold and often when you're in some so…
I thank everyone for everything they do for me - not because I should but because I'm genuinely grateful whenever someone does what was requested of them.
I've not found that it's something that's repaid. If anything, folks are more motivated by the guy who shouts at them and never thanks them, because they want his impossible to win approval. The thankful person gets ignored.
There's probably a happy medium to be had somewhere.
Re: Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work
#8Our group uses a chat bot, which plays silly games at random times. Sometimes the challenge is like "Say thanks to somebody to earn some points". Those points are useless gamification tokens, but maybe it helps to encourage gratitude. There was always somebody who took that challenge so far.
That's cool! Which bot?
Custom. We started with a small Jabber bot framework. Then migrated it to IRC (and terminal for testing).
We cannot publicize all the plugins we made. If we rip out the plugins, it is just a bot framework like many others, just with less features and more convoluted code.
Ok, our filter mechanism is probably unique. We can switch the bot to various german dialects like bavarian, swabian, etc. Works similar to http://rinkworks.com/dialect/works.shtml but changes bot output instead of web pages. It was fun for a week and now nobody uses it anymore.
I once tried to migrate our plugins to Errbot [0], but then decided it was too much effort for too little gain.
Re: Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work
#9> 2. Thank the people who never get thanked I always make a point of telling anyone in IT at whatever company I worked for that I appreciated what they did and knew it was a thankless job. It's one of those areas where if you do a perfect job no one knows you're there and you're only high-profile when you screw up. I've found over the years that they'll pay back that kindness ten-fold and often when you're in some so…
My old boss had the motto:
"Treat the cleaners like they're The Queen; treat The Queen like she's a cleaner"
Similarly: "grief travels up, praise travels down" and "be nice to those you meet on your way up as you may well meet them again on your way down".
I use all of these mantras on a daily basis and I believe they work. I can't guarantee my food is spittle free but I have never had reason to believe otherwise.
I confess I have been known to break this rule with phone spammers.
Re: Ways to Cultivate Gratitude at Work
#10Is it really gratitude if you cultivate it? Can you really become mindful/thankful/x via pure practice? If it makes sense and is logical why can't you instantly become thankful, why do you practice? I see ton's of people in daily life who have cultivated modesty (eg: politicians, ceo's ect) . It is so obvious that its fake, why do ppl do this?
It's not "fake gratitude", it's "verbalizing real gratitude". The article is about cultivating an environment where gratitude is known.
To add on to this, this thinking of "fake" vs "real" gratitude falls into the typical Socratic thinking of "I can tell you what isn't XXX but I can't tell you what it is cause I'm not wise yada yada." As human beings we like to think we can tell human beings intentions. However, as miscommunication proves, we often can't, at least accurately. Having individuals go through the motions of generosity, humility, and gratitude is just as good as teaching people those intentions e.g. play the part long enough and you stop playing.