{"id":19,"date":"2026-03-31T10:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/optimistic-white-bear.167-86-108-143.cpanel.site\/wordpress\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/an-attitude-of-gratitude\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:55:00","slug":"an-attitude-of-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.greenkeypersonaldevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/an-attitude-of-gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"An Attitude of Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is International Women’s Day. This is a day where women all over the world are celebrated for the many roles they play – mother, daughter, wife, aunt, chef, general director, receptionist and so on. Women are everywhere, you could argue the same for men and I would agree. My question is why are women only given formal recognition on one day of the year? Why 8th<\/sup> March? The answers to my questions will be many and varied depending on country and culture, your level of acknowledgment of this day and so on. But underneath the meaning of this day is appreciation and gratitude. Both worthy actions to show someone, whether male or female that you value them and that you are grateful for what they do and how they contribute to your life.<\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

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Gratitude and appreciation are the foundations to showing employees whether male or female how much they are valued and how much you appreciate what they do within their role in your organisation, however large or small. Gratitude is for both large and small actions that contribute to the collective outcome of achievement of goals, to teamwork and to organisation profitability. As in the April 2022 Oak Engage report, “Not feeling valued is the top reason for unhappiness.” <\/i>Therefore, it is safe to say that feeling valued is the foundation to happiness in the workplace and that according to an Oxford University 2023 study, “Happy employees are 13% more productive”<\/i>. <\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/news\/2019-10-24-happy-workers-are-13-more-productive<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/o_p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Who is responsible for giving appreciation and showing gratitude in an organisation?<\/o_p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Gratitude when coming from a boss makes employees 50% more successful”.  <\/span>(Forbes, April 2022)<\/o_p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/carolinecastrillon\/2022\/04\/24\/how-to-create-a-culture-of-gratitude-at-work\/<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/o_p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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As in the quote above from the Forbes April 2022 report, the obvious answer to this question, is the supervisor, manager and direct boss. If they want to lead and manage a motivated and inspired team of individuals, showing appreciation regularly is a top priority. That can be a simple “Thank you for…….” <\/i>given directly to the person with presence showing authenticity through facial expression and body language as well as words used, or more elaborate in the form of “Employee of the month,” or other similar award. In all cases the person needs to recognise what they have done and the value it brings. Sometimes we might refer to appreciation as giving positive feedback on the spot, rather than in a formal situation, such as performance appraisal or other form of performance management.<\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

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Is it just a manager that is supposed to or can say “Thank you”<\/i> and show appreciation? Actually not. Fostering collaboration within teams is based on appreciation of the role that each person is responsible for and how that person takes responsibility to meet deadlines, commit to and fulfil actions and tasks, jump in to support or cover when someone in the team is struggling, share ideas, help developing those who are not as experienced and encourage fellow teammates in achievement of the goals ahead. We can all share our appreciation of each other by saying a “Thank you”<\/i> and meaning it whether directly to the person or in a regular meeting where the opportunity is taken to show appreciation and give gratitude in front of the rest of the team.<\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

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When we show appreciation and give gratitude, we create an environment that thrives on support of one another. It is positive, warm and fuzzy, like drinking a mug of hot chocolate in your pyjamas, while still being focused to the job in hand. It is an environment that thrives on individual employees who want to go to work because they love what they do, feel supported and valued. And the benefit according to Forbes 2023 report found that, “Happy employees are 20% more productive.”<\/o_p><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/forbescoachescouncil\/2017\/12\/13\/promoting-employee-happiness-benefits-everyone\/<\/a><\/o_p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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How does working in such an environment help organisation performance? <\/o_p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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There are many research papers and reports that show positive outcomes for all concerned, for example,<\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

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 <\/span>“Highly engaged teams experience 59% less turnover compared to their disengaged counterparts.” <\/span><\/i>(Gallup, November 2023)<\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span>“Highly engaged teams experience 59% less turnover compared to their disengaged counterparts.” (Gallup, November 2023)<\/span><\/a><\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

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Companies that actively engage employees have customer loyalty rates 233% higher.”<\/span><\/i> (Aberdeen group, 2015)<\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.verint.com\/Assets\/resources\/resource-types\/white-papers\/aberdeen-employee-engagement-paving-the-way-to-happy-customers.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

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5% increase in employee engagement can lead to a 3% jump in revenue.”<\/span><\/i> (AON, 2015)<\/span>  <\/span><\/span>5% increase in employee engagement can lead to a 3% jump in revenue.” (IN, 2015)<\/span><\/a><\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

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Doubtful that I need to add anything further to answer this question as the quotes above do this vividly. I hope that by joining the dots and making genuine appreciation a regular occurrence and making a habit of giving gratitude that you and your organisation will discover and see the list of positive benefits for both the individual and the organisation when you make “An attitude of gratitude”<\/i> common place.<\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

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References:<\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/news\/2019-10-24-happy-workers-are-13-more-productive<\/a><\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.oak.com\/blog\/employee-satisfaction-stats\/#:~:text=1.,employer%20as%20the%20main%20reason<\/span><\/a>.<\/o_p><\/span><\/p>\n

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Today is International Women’s Day. This is a day where women all over the world are celebrated for the many roles they play – mother, daughter, wife, aunt, chef, general director, receptionist and so on. Women are everywhere, you could argue the same for men and I would agree. My question is why are women […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,21,7,13,18],"tags":[30,27,29,32],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employee-development","category-employee-wellbeing","category-leadership-and-management-training","category-workplace-communication-workplace-communication","category-workplace-wellbeing-workplace-wellbeing","tag-communication","tag-leadership","tag-training","tag-workplace-wellbeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.greenkeypersonaldevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.greenkeypersonaldevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.greenkeypersonaldevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.greenkeypersonaldevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.greenkeypersonaldevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.greenkeypersonaldevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/new.greenkeypersonaldevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.greenkeypersonaldevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.greenkeypersonaldevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.greenkeypersonaldevelopment.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}