Are you all professional at work? No chit chat, no small talk, not sharing personal stuff? Well, you’re not the only one. In most projects and environments I’ve worked, there’s not much sharing of personal things, and the most “coffee talk” I hear is about work-related topics. Then again, I asked how my colleague’s weekend was, and if anything special happened?
Continue reading →Frankly, do you know your colleagues, your teammates?
Imagine you’re having a meeting, a workshop, a retrospective, a training, … do you know how your attendees are feeling, how do they evaluate their experience?
The goal is to collect feedback of people both on a quantitative (what’s your rating, your score?) as a qualitative level (how do you feel, what do you like, what could be improved?, etc).
Usually this is done via “feedback forms”, which works quite well at the end of a longer session, or training. But it’s also very interesting to apply this for any kind of gathering!
You can easily integrate ways to collect feedback in any kind of meeting.
Management 3.0 proposes the feedback or “happiness” door.
Receiving a thank you is great, but showing appreciation to colleagues, friends, family for something they’ve done for you is even more satisfying! In a professional context, showing gratitude is happening too little for different reasons: it’s uncommon (regarded as not done, it’s not part of the culture, etc.). Although said and proven in research, showing gratitude is a tremendous intrinsic incentive: this is essential to keep your employees motivated! Organizations should be as aware of intrinsic motivators as extrinsic motivators.