A coworker came up to me last week
and announced “I got that rush check done.”
Was the rush check for me?
No.
Did I have anything to do with this special request?
No.
Then why was she telling me this?
Because she wanted acknowledgment and
in our group, I’m known for giving it.
All she wanted was a “Wow, that’s great”
but she wanted it enough
to go out of her way to ask for it.
Be free with acknowledgments.
Their powers don’t lessen with quantity.
As Judith W. Umlas,
author of The Power Of Acknowledgment,
states
“Rarely given acknowledgements
have no more value than frequent ones.”