Benefits Of Gratitude In The Workplace

Have you thanked your employees recently?

We all know how difficult these past two years have been for everyone. A little gratitude and thankfulness for your team can go a long way in promoting a healthy workplace. For showing up, doing their job, filling in where necessary, especially during the pandemic.

Benefits Of Thanking An Employee For Doing Their Job

• Employees will actually want to come to work

• Great motivator - better than performance-related pay

• Costs nothing

• Increases employee wellbeing - results in happier & healthier employees

• Boosts employee self-esteem

• Employees tend to go beyond their job description

• Improves relationships at work

• More positive organizational culture

• Improves employee retention

• Being grateful reduces manager’s stress, improves the manager’s health

• Nobody wants to work for an ungrateful boss

How To Show Gratitude (Thankfulness)

• Be authentic

• Acknowledge small things as well as big achievements

• Do it often

• Say thank you as soon as possible after the achievement or event

• Use email or thank you cards, as well as verbal thank yous