Living With Dignity. Anthony Ekanem

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      You will instil confidence in your team.

      High levels of confidence will lead to greater creativity, innovation and willingness to take risks. It will also help improve the level of commitment team members have for their roles and their team.

      You will foster a healthy team culture.

      Acknowledgement and praise generate positive results within the team. This leads to a better attitude among team members, which means there will be a higher level of collaboration. It will also help improve team performance.

      You will encourage openness within your team.

      If a leader gives acknowledgement when team members perform well, they will find it easier to keep others accountable. They will challenge team members to perform at their best and encourage them to hold all team members responsible.

      You will build stronger relationships.

      Leadership is all about relationship and developing people. Acknowledging others means a leader is seeing what is good in other people. And since people have different communication preferences, a leader will also improve their communication skills.

      Everyone is waiting to be appreciated or acknowledged in one way or the other. A simple and genuine acknowledgement can make a big difference in a person’s self-confidence and self-esteem.

      Acknowledging people is a skill that everyone can learn. The more you practise acknowledgement, the more you will believe in the people you are acknowledging. It will also make you feel better about yourself. Look around you, and you will see people from all walks of life who crave this feeling of importance.

      Acknowledgement is easily forgotten but can be a powerful tool in business. It can mark you as a great leader who easily motivates people. Leaders who acknowledge people and appreciate them are the ones who get followed.

      Great leaders use acknowledgement to make people feel good about themselves. One good way to be a great leader is to find a way every day to make the people around you feel important.

      DOES ACKNOWLEDGEMENT WORK?

      Acknowledgement works because there are studies that prove it. Globoforce research in 2013 showed that 89 per cent of people were motivated by being told what they were doing right, rather than being told what they were doing wrong. Nearly 80 per cent of people looked for acknowledgement to be given close to the time of activity.

      Another study by Bob Nelson showed very similar results. Here is an excerpt from the survey report by Bob Nelson:

      "By taking the time to acknowledge each individual's ability to contribute to an organisation's success, we challenged our recruiting team to think out of the box for unique and cost-efficient ways to increase our candidate pipeline. This led to some recommendations from the team, one of which was to collect referrals from candidates when they came in for a round of in-person interviews. As a result of executing this strategy, we added over 20 per cent more candidates to our pipeline at no additional cost. By acknowledging these individuals, we created the environment for innovative ideas to emerge."

      IMPORTANCE OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

      It has been said that human beings not only want to be noticed by others but also want to be appreciated by them. These are two needs that everyone would like fulfilled. Usually, you would have these needs fulfilled by your family members, friends and coworkers. And at times, other people will enable you to feel noticed and appreciated. If you are famous or well-known, this could cause you to have these needs fulfilled more often.

      When people acknowledge you, it makes you feel good, and this leaves a positive impact on your life. When you feel good, there is the possibility that you would want to pass the good feeling on to the people around you. And these people could also benefit from the positive impact of the acknowledgement you received.

      On the other hand, if you are not acknowledged by other people, it could make you feel bad. It could hurt you, and the people around you could also suffer as a result. By feeling bad, you may want to pass on your pains to other people.

      And to acknowledge another person, you need to be present so you are able to place your attention on the other person. If you are not present, it will affect your ability to notice how the person looks and to understand what they are saying.

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BASICS

      Eye Contact. Eye contact is important when it comes to making another person feel acknowledged. If this does not exist or you are not consistent with it, it could cause someone to feel ignored or unimportant.

      Handshake. Shaking someone else’s hand is another thing you can do to make someone feel acknowledged. Not doing this could make the person feel unimportant or overlooked.

      Good Manners. Having and showing good manners can make another person feel respected and important. When this does not happen, they can feel unappreciated and even invisible.

      Curiosity. While some people talk openly about what matters to them or what they have achieved, not everyone does. This means that some people are going to give clues as to what they want to be appreciated for, and some people won't. That is why curiosity is important when it comes to acknowledgement of people. If an individual does not open up to you, you need to be interested in what matters to them. And even if they open up, you still need to be curious, or else the conversation may not go far.

      Empathy. Being curious is one thing, but if you do not care about other people, you may not go far in life. Empathy means that you can put your own needs and wants aside and focus on the needs of another person. This will connect you with their needs and wants, and you can find out what brings them joy and fulfilment.

      Action. You can improve your communication skills by changing how you behave, and this can work well. Another approach is to be interested in what goes on in the life of the people around you, and their behaviour towards you will naturally improve.

      If you are not usually with people or are not interested in what goes on in their life, it might feel strange or uncomfortable when you do. However, with time, this will change, and it will soon become your second nature.

      Chapter 3

      Validate Other People

      To validate someone means to acknowledge and accept that person’s thoughts, feelings, ideas and experiences without judging or trying to change the individual.

      To live a dignified life, you should learn to validate people for their talents, hard work, thoughtfulness, and the help they render to you or your loved ones. Be generous with praise. Give recognition to people for their contributions, ideas and experiences.

      One of the options we often have in any problem situation is that of acceptance. Validation is one way of communicating acceptance of yourself and other people.

      Validation does not mean agreeing with an individual or approving of their action. When your friend or a family member, for instance, makes a decision that you do not think is СКАЧАТЬ