Gratitude Activities, Quotes, and Letters

Building a culture of workplace gratitude could be the best thing you ever do for your business. In fact, author and speaker Toni Powell calls gratitude at work the key to success in “Why Gratitude in the Workplace?”

“Gratitude has the rather extraordinary power to change just about every aspect of life—in very surprising ways.”

When you practice workplace gratitude, you transform relationships, minimize complaints, and see satisfaction levels skyrocket. The effect is profound and long-lasting, Powell says, because gratitude rewires the brain to see and process the world differently.

Gratitude:

• Increases resilience.
• Reduces stress.
• Facilitates positive relationships.
• Makes people happier.

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It’s not too late to finish the year strong with gratitude!

Year-end can mean different things to people, depending on industry, role, personality type … and a million other factors! We hope you are thoroughly enjoying the holiday season with your friends, family and employees. Here are a few suggestions to finish the year strong as a leader who understands that appreciation is the greatest gift.

5 Ways to Finish the Year Strong:

Say THANK YOU to everyone you can. From your trusted advisors to the delivery folks to the administrative teams who make your world work. Who can you thank today? (more…)

We are extremely grateful for our fantastic customers who enjoy giving gThankYou Gift Certificates to employees and customers for the holidays and year-round. It’s our pleasure to partner with leaders who understand that thoughtful, practical, easy-to-use gifts are an excellent way to show gratitude.

Every organization has their own unique stories of sharing gratitude.

We are excited to share three customer case studies of organizations who use gThankYou Gift Certificates to share gratitude in different ways with their workplace teams. We hope it provides inspiration and insight for sharing gratitude in your workplace. You can find all of these and download PDFs to share with your management on our new gThankYou Case Studies page!

Nothing tells a story better than satisfied customers and thousands of happy employees!

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The craziness of Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday, make it easy to lose the joy and spirit of the holidays. Feeling tired and stressed with the holidays looming ahead? You are not alone.

Your colleagues likely feel this way too. When it comes to sharing year-end employee appreciation, no one wants yet another holiday trinket.

Take Back the Holidays

You can take back the holidays with gratitude.

Gratitude is transformative – it lifts spirits, reminds us of the goodness in others and inspires hope and happiness. It changes our focus so we see more clearly what’s really important.

It’s #GivingTuesday! How will you be spreading workplace gratitude today? (Logo via GivingTuesday.org)

Today is #GivingTuesday. On this day of giving back, consider how sharing in the joys of charity and volunteerism at work engages employees. Gratitude-focused celebrations like #GivingTuesday help build a year-round spirit of workplace gratitude.
The gratitude we share over the holiday season isn’t a once-a-year diversion. Let it inspire an everyday culture of workplace gratitude in your company!
Gratitude “the high-octane fuel” of relationships, says psychology professor and eminent gratitude researcher Robert Emmons in a Fast Company article this week.
It’s vital to working relationships in particular. (more…)

This is what workplace gratitude looks like! LSUchick142 posted this photo to Flickr after her first day at a new job. (Creative Commons)

What does workplace gratitude in action look like?
Beyond the data, the research studies and advice from experts, what are companies actually doing right now to successfully show appreciation and build gratitude among employees?
We regularly scout out and highlight the best current examples of forward-thinking or compassionate workplace gratitude (see previous gratitude posts here) and another post here.
This time around we discovered more mini-case studies of employers building gratitude, whether they’re doing it with a special one-off celebration or (more…)

Workplace gratitude can be shared in many creative ways, but it must be sincere and meaningful. (Photo via Flickr.com/betsyweber)

Workplace gratitude is deceptively simple — just say “thank you” and mean it, right? — and yet it’s also just as easy to get into a rut with it.
Every few months, we scour the news for mini case studies of workplace gratitude. These are examples of company leaders who demonstrate refreshing, creative ways to say “thank you” to employees, while also maintaining a bottom line of effectiveness.
Don’t let your recognition program go stale;  get your creative juices flowing with these (more…)

Image via Flickr.com/lumaxart

How much does it cost to not share your workplace gratitude by saying “thank you” to your employees? About $2,730 annually per employee, according to a recent Monster.com.uk survey.
The U.K.’s Monster.com site found “that the price of a ‘thank you’ was as much as £134 ($79) a month,” reports Workplace Savings and Benefits. “On average, employees would want to be paid an extra £1,608 ($2,730) a year for never being thanked at work to compensate for the lack of appreciation.”
Pricey, right? And that’s just from the lack of (more…)