Showing appreciation, building trust

[Mike Caracalas]

Something I like to do at the end of a day with a team, is ask them each to reflect on what they appreciate about each other. I ask them to look around at each their colleagues, and write on a piece of paper a word or phrase for each team member reflecting how they appreciate the way they showed up today. When everyone has completed this, we give each member of the team their moment in the spotlight, where each of the other team members speaks aloud what they wrote about the person in the spotlight. The result is that each team member gets focused 2-3 minutes of appreciation spoken by the rest of the team.

This builds both Camaraderie and Trust.

[MandyRollins]

I love this, Mike! I’ve done this before with teams where each person has an envelope and during the day people write comments of appreciation on an index card and put them in the various envelopes before the team departs. It’s enjoyable to read on the plane ride home and some folks even keep it in their bag to look at later when they need a “pick me up”.

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