Comments on: What is recognition? http://humansatwork.com/what-is-recognition/ Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:50:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jim Cox http://humansatwork.com/what-is-recognition/comment-page-1/#comment-270 Jim Cox Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:00:12 +0000 http://humansatwork.com/?p=1285#comment-270 Thanks for a great post Kelley! I have been working in tech for over 25 years, and for the most part virtually all the recognition I have received is the half-hearted or maintenance chore form of recognition that you wrote of in the first paragraph. Oh!, there were also those special occasions where I also got a little company swag along with those half-hearted "atta-boys" Then there were those times where my boss just said "thanks for a great job Jim", or the note for a VP for taking care of an entire orphaned product line that nobody else wanted to work on. For me every one of those "thanks" and that little piece of paper from the VP individually mean more to me thank all the faux "atta-boys" and/or swag I will ever receive. After being treated like a tool for so long, I have become very jaded towards recognition because I have grown to expect it to be insincere . Then again there are those special moments where someone treats me like a human and not a tool, and it's those moments that keep me going. Thanks for a great post Kelley!

I have been working in tech for over 25 years, and for the most part virtually all the recognition I have received is the half-hearted or maintenance chore form of recognition that you wrote of in the first paragraph. Oh!, there were also those special occasions where I also got a little company swag along with those half-hearted “atta-boys”

Then there were those times where my boss just said “thanks for a great job Jim”, or the note for a VP for taking care of an entire orphaned product line that nobody else wanted to work on.

For me every one of those “thanks” and that little piece of paper from the VP individually mean more to me thank all the faux “atta-boys” and/or swag I will ever receive.

After being treated like a tool for so long, I have become very jaded towards recognition because I have grown to expect it to be insincere . Then again there are those special moments where someone treats me like a human and not a tool, and it’s those moments that keep me going.

]]> By: Jennifer http://humansatwork.com/what-is-recognition/comment-page-1/#comment-137 Jennifer Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:06:46 +0000 http://humansatwork.com/?p=1285#comment-137 I've been thinking about this some more. Yesterday after I read this, I asked myself how I could do the same thing here where I am working - give out a little recognition. It seems so simple - so easy really. Treat people as human beings. Not as anyone particularly special or unusual - just another human deserving recognition. It made a huge difference in those kids lives that someone called them by <i>their names</i>. And I realized, it's not always that easy. I confess that it's too often much easier to find the things that bug me about their behavior. That is something I have to work on, and I would not have thought that I did. If it's hard for me, I can see how it might be hard for the people I work with too. Maybe they are not as bad as I thought... Anyway - - thanks for pointing this stuff out. I’ve been thinking about this some more. Yesterday after I read this, I asked myself how I could do the same thing here where I am working – give out a little recognition. It seems so simple – so easy really. Treat people as human beings. Not as anyone particularly special or unusual – just another human deserving recognition. It made a huge difference in those kids lives that someone called them by their names. And I realized, it’s not always that easy. I confess that it’s too often much easier to find the things that bug me about their behavior. That is something I have to work on, and I would not have thought that I did. If it’s hard for me, I can see how it might be hard for the people I work with too. Maybe they are not as bad as I thought…

Anyway – - thanks for pointing this stuff out.

]]> By: Jennifer http://humansatwork.com/what-is-recognition/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Jennifer Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:26:52 +0000 http://humansatwork.com/?p=1285#comment-135 Wow. That story certainly demonstrates your point beautifully. (And it made me misty-eyed too.) Wow. That story certainly demonstrates your point beautifully. (And it made me misty-eyed too.)

]]> By: They knew our names : kelleyeskridge.com http://humansatwork.com/what-is-recognition/comment-page-1/#comment-134 They knew our names : kelleyeskridge.com Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:39:46 +0000 http://humansatwork.com/?p=1285#comment-134 [...] did a post about this over at Humans At Work, in which I said: The power of human beings to make each other feel [...] [...] did a post about this over at Humans At Work, in which I said: The power of human beings to make each other feel [...]

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