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It Matters Who Gets The Credit
You may have heard the thought that there is no end to what we could accomplish if we didn’t care who got the credit. (Ironically, that has been credited to President Ronald Reagan, Walt Disney, writer Laing Burns, Jr. and several others.) It is sometimes stated with a slightly corrective tone when an employee is frustrated over not receiving…
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Ken Blanchard and Tina Lewis Rowe — We Agree About Praise
About Praising Praise what you want to have repeated. To praise someone means to commend them, congratulate them, honor them, extol their virtues, go into raptures over something they have done, or to strongly compliment them. Those descriptions set some high standards for what is praiseworthy! It also reminds us that there is a difference between…
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When “Praise In Public, Criticize In Private” Is Not The Best Tactic
“Praise in public, correct in private” is advice that is often given in supervisory training without discussing its intent or the exceptions to it as a rule. The most ancient attribution for that thought goes back to about 35 BC when Publilius Syrus said, “Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.” Catherine the Great,…