{"id":1059,"date":"2015-04-12T22:12:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T02:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2015-04-12T22:23:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T02:23:46","slug":"when-it-comes-to-compliments-one-size-fits-all-fits-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eagleoneresources.com\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"When It Comes to Compliments, “One Size Fits All” Fits No One"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Newly promoted into sales management, I was given the opportunity to attend management training classes. Of course, being young and full of myself, my thought process was, “what do I need training classes for … I know how to motivate people”. Fortunately, the trainer (his name was John) at one of the first classes I attended volunteered me to role play a situation with him where it was my job to recognize his achievements and compliment him.<\/p>\n

After John had set the scene, he sat down in my seat in the meeting room and told me to begin the exercise. I announced that I had a plaque to present him and called him to the front of the room. He quietly told me that he had a wall full of plaques, more than he could count, and that they really did not excite him. He’d rather not get another plaque.<\/p>\n

I asked him to come up anyway so that I could tell everyone about his accomplishments. He quietly told me that he was really a shy person who felt it was his job to do the best he could and being glorified in front of people really made him uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

At this point, John let me off the hook and told me that not everyone likes to receive recognition in the same manner; and, that not everyone wanted to receive that recognition in the same way that I obviously liked. That experience of standing in front of a roomful of my peers and learning that I did not know everything started me on a quest to learn all that I could about what motivates people and how they want to be recognized for their achievements because John was right … different personality types have very different preferences when it comes to recognition and compliments.<\/p>\n

Are you curious to know how different personalities want to be recognized? Next week, we’ll take a look at what works well with introverted personalities.
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\nTom Hoisington is a speaker, trainer, and author whose goal is to provide leaders and potential leaders with tools that empower them to build teams that are creative and cost effective along with a clearer understanding of how personality types interact within those teams. He can be contacted at tom.hoisington@eagleoneresources.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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