prioritize<\/strong><\/em> if you have a lot of team members who work at a distance. Make sure you email, text, call or video conference with those individuals who may be feeling disconnected. Staying connected is also something important for peers, not just supervisors, to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTeam leaders are often encouraged to communicate appreciation to colleagues during designated \u201cholidays\u201d like Employee Appreciation Day or Thanksgiving. But they need to keep in mind that expressing thanks can be<\/strong> received poorly.<\/p>\n\n\n\nClueless managers are at risk for saying thanks in ways that miss the mark. They don\u2019t really get appreciation or understand its importance \u2013 but they try anyway, and often their actions actually wind up being offensive. A large group email with a generic message of thanks is meaningless to people and may actually create resentment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So make sure that you are being authentic when you show appreciation to your employees. Be genuine, make it personal, and do it regularly, not just on March 1st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Friday, March 1st, is Employee Appreciation Day. And while the team at Appreciation at Work certainly applauds the thought, we want to encourage our readers to consider that authentic appreciation is something that can and should be practiced every day of the year, not just on a single, designated day. At the core of… Continue reading…<\/a>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,133,198,118,2139,2223],"tags":[2147,2149],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\nEvery Day Can Be Employee Appreciation Day - Appreciation at Work<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n