A Carrot a Day: A Daily Dose of Recognition for Your Employees

The Dirty Dozen of Why We Don’t

EXCUSE NO. 5

“BUT THEY WILL EXPECT MORE PRAISE!”

Let me see if I’ve got this straight. They perform. You give praise. They perform again. You give praise again. Hoping to get more praise, they perform again. And that’s a bad thing?

Here’s the real problem: generic, perfunctory praise that comes across as insincere. Get involved, be specific and lay it on…meaningful praise, that is.