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Chapman’s bestselling The Five Love Languages meets psychologist White’s work with businesses, and a new “Languages” application is born. According to the authors, the main reason for job satisfaction or dissatisfaction is “whether or not the individual feels appreciated and valued for the work they do.” The book presents the five languages of appreciation — Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Acts of Service, Tangible Gifts, Physical Touch — and how they are applied in the workplace. Chapman and White call it the “Motivating by Appreciation” model, explained in the book and offered online at appreciationatwork.com. The authors provide much useful information for owners, managers, and worked in industries ranging from nonprofits to schools, medical offices to manufacturers. They pay special attention to volunteers. This is a well-researched, useful book for business leaders that offers a much needed message that won’t wear out with repetition: “If people enjoy their work and feel appreciated…they are far more likely to have organizational loyalty and work hard.”

In far too many workplaces, results matter more than the people who work there. In this absolute must-read book Gary Chapman and Paul White provide creative, practical ways to show appreciation to every single person at work, automatically boosting their confidence and productivity. This book holds the key to changing all working environments into safe and effective spaces where people can feel valued.

The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace is timely and so very practical. Appreciation is the “pay” everyone is looking for today but few know how to either give or ask for a “raise” in that area. This book addresses not just the life-giving appreciation we all need, but takes us through the process of discovering what that looks like for ourselves and for those with whom we work. Everyone who reads this book will without doubt be better equipped to create an atmosphere of appreciation in their sphere of influence wherever that is.

This is Not a good book! This is much more, it is a Great Tool! Far from a rehashing of The 5 Love Languages casually applied to the workplace, this is a well thought thru, well researched, and thoughtfully applied resource to empower your people, increase unity and productivity, and reduce turnover. The moment I finished I wanted to do a staff retreat and get this in the hands of our HR department. I highly recommend it.

Every management course highlights the value of appreciation, but appreciating me in a way that I can’t hear feels very much like not being appreciated. This book is an important contribution to making the workplace a more pleasant environment where people feel appreciated — a prerequisite for being more productive.

Trusting relationships are the glue that holds commerce together. They are more important than skills or knowledge. This book shows how to build trust on a personal level in the workplace and its principles apply for a wide variety of organizations.

We are all unique, our businesses are really organisms not mechanisms that require care and feeding. This book will feed the individuals who really value how we treat people and want to stretch their commitment to doing the right thing, not just for their business but also for the employees and communities for which they serve.

If the insights and wisdom offered by Chapman and White are practiced in the workplace, churches, and voluntary organizations, there will be a glorious revolution in human relations.

I have really worked hard for many years to appreciate my co-workers scattered across the USA. However, this simple process and tool has put me light years ahead. It will greatly help your relationships and productivity as a leader.

The insights in this book are invaluable whether you are an employer, employee or volunteer. The principles the authors describe nurture a healthy, enjoyable, motivating environment. I’m already telling my friends, “Get this book!”

I don’t know a more dignified and effective workforce than one operating from a position of worth, integrity and confidence, as well as one that excels in language of appreciation. This book will help you transform the workplace with godly values and a simple ‘People Come First!’ approach.

Learning the primary appreciation ‘languages’ has transformed our clinic from one focused on ‘corporate’ appreciation to ‘individual’ appreciation.  Since we are all uniquely created, it is logical that each person responds to a different form of appreciation. This book has already helped us develop a sensitivity to and ability to show effective, personal appreciation for our coworkers.

In these challenging economic times, when it has been difficult to find the resources to reward our staff monetarily, we have diligently sought ways to genuinely express our appreciation for our staff’s hard work and service. Until reading The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace, … I do not believe we had given any consideration to the fact that certain team members, when shown specific acts of gratitude, respond differently than other team members. . . Over the last few months, I have seen a marked and heightened effort to personalize appreciation not only by supervisors with their staff members but also on a peer-to-peer basis.