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Book: The Power of Thanks

Saying thank you and appreciating the people on your team can make a world of difference.

No, I have not read this book. I'm working on reading about four others sporadically. But the title caught my eye because it is something I've tried to do more of in the last 20 years. It is such a simple gesture to do with your co-workers and family. It just makes sense, and I've found it rewarding in my own personal relationships. See the promotional text below:

Many studies confirm how important friendships at work are to employee happiness – but how do you foster it and build stronger, more trusting relationships?

Social recognitions builds trust between colleagues, between teams, between company leaders – becoming glue that binds people together across a company, removing generational and location differences.

And building a fully energized, engaged and unified workforce is the key to business success.

Book: The Power of Thanks: How Social Recognition Empowers Employees and Creates a Best Place to Work empower employees through social recognition -- the practice of mutual appreciation and trust directs and rewards higher performance.

Co-Authors Eric Mosley and Derek Irvine are executives at the employee recognition firm Globoforce. They offer practical advice and examples for devising a powerful, growth-generating strategy that modernizes employee recognition for today’s social, global, multi-generational and 24x7 wired workforce.

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.