The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace
Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People
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4.2 • 20 Ratings
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Publisher Description
You appreciate your coworkers—but do they feel appreciated?
OVER 800,000 COPIES SOLD!
Based on the #1 New York Times bestseller The 5 Love Languages® (over 20 million copies sold)
With updated and new research from JC Hite and William Attaway
Dramatically improve workplace relationships simply by learning your coworkers' language of appreciation.
This book will give you the tools to create a more positive workplace, increase employee engagement, and reduce staff turnover. How? By teaching you to effectively communicate authentic appreciation and encouragement to employees, co-workers, and leaders. Most relational problems in organizations flow from this question: do people feel appreciated? This book will help you answer "Yes!"
A bestseller—having sold over 800,000 copies and translated into 24 languages—this book has proven to be effective and valuable in diverse settings. Its principles about human behavior have helped businesses, non-profits, hospitals, schools, government agencies, and organizations with remote workers.
This expanded edition includes research from J.C. Hite and Dr. William Attaway, along with QR codes at the end of each chapter that unlock short, insightful videos designed to enhance application. The QR code also provides access to Motivating By Appreciation (MBA) Inventory, an assessment that identifies a person's preferred languages of appreciation. When supervisors and colleagues understand their coworkers' primary and secondary languages, as well as the specific actions they desire, they can effectively communicate authentic appreciation, thus creating healthy work relationships and raising the level of performance across an entire team or organization.
Take your team to the next level by applying The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace.
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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 workers 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." The book comes from a Christian publisher, but has wide application.
Customer Reviews
Every person in a leadership position should read this book!
I finally understand why some people react differently towards gifts, praise, rewards, etc. All of us have our language to receive and show appreciation at work. If we do not speak those different languages, we may be starving employees of feeling appreciated. The military would benefit significantly from applying the principles of this book. Maybe in that way, service members will feel more appreciated and stay longer.