January 20, 2007

It's All Down Hill...

Percentagepraise

From the front page of USA Today on January 19, 2006 was a graphic that showed the percentage of children who were praised by their parents at least three times per day.  Children under 6 were praised at least three times a day 72% of the time - those between 12-17 - only 37% received the same.

I'm guessing that if you extrapolate that into the work environment the number may actually be 0% (boss being the substitute for parent.)  I'm not suggesting we praise for no reason - but we should look for more opportunities either formally through a peer-to-peer program in the office or informally with lunch and coffee break invitation. 

Jan 20, 2007 4:26:34 PM | Employee, General Motivation, Program Design

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