A THANKSGIVING IDEA FOR YOUR EMPLOYEES AND CUSTOMERS
Are you looking for a creative, meaningful way to appreciate your employees and/or your customers this Thanksgiving?
Send their families a copy of The Simple Truths of Appreciation!
THANKSGIVING SPECIAL:
BOOK $12.00 (Retail $15.95)
BOOK WITH DVD $15.00 (Retail $19.95
One of my newer books is titled The Simple Truths of Appreciation, How Each of Us Can Choose to Make a Difference. There is so much negativity and cynicism all around us today that people are desperate for positives and hope and a focus on goodness. I find that everyone can seem to share what is going wrong but have difficulty coming up with what is going RIGHT, so we need to become more positive, grateful people, focused on what is good in our lives.
The #2 thing people want from their jobs is “full appreciation for the work they have done” yet 65% of the workers interviewed said they got NO appreciation for the good work they did all last year. Isn’t that sad?
The other need we are seeing in the workplace is a desire for employees to have more connection between their families (home life) and their work life. When Baxter Labs did a worldwide study asking their employees, “What can we do to make it better for you?”, the answer most received was that they wanted to be recognized as “whole human beings with a life outside of work.” I am seeing this over and over in my work in corporate America.
Finally, new research from Gallup says that only 12- 15% of our American workers are giving their very best to their jobs. 8-10% are burned out, but that leaves 75-80% just doing enough to get by. I believe that is primarily because they do not feel a sense of purpose in the work they are doing and they do not feel valued by the company.
SO, MY IDEA WOULD COMBINE ALL THOSE NEEDS, and Thanksgiving is the perfect time to do this. I would like to suggest that companies purchase copies of my book, The Simple Truths of Appreciation, and send them to their employees’ homes as a Thanksgiving gift, thanking the families for sharing the employee with them and for all their sacrifices to help them do their very best work. I think it is a gesture neither the employee nor the family will ever forget.
The book is a short book with lots of beautiful pictures, and it is filled with stories, both personal and business, of people who are making a difference through appreciating others. Even non-readers are enjoying it, so it would be a book for the whole family. Another idea is to also send it to all the organization’s best customers to thank THEM for their business.
I am always trying to think of creative ways to encourage people that they CAN make a difference. This book, containing some simple strategies of how to remember to appreciate people, like putting five pennies in one pocket at the beginning of the day and each time you appreciate someone, moving the pennies to the other pocket with the goal of not ending the day without having moved all five pennies, can help make this spirit of appreciation actionable. And that is what we need more of in this hurting world!
THANKSGIVING SPECIAL:
BOOK $12.00 (Retail $15.95)
BOOK WITH DVD $15.00 (Retail $19.95)
ACT SOON AS THANKSGIVING IS NOT FAR OFF! Special runs through November 30!
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