75. Expert Interview: Employee Recognition—Making it Real, with Dr. Paul White

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2015

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Paul White specializes in the language of authentic appreciation, and how to express it meaningfully to others. Co-author of three books and the Motivating by Appreciation Inventory, used by corporations, colleges and universities, medical facilities, schools, non-profit organizations, and government agencies. Feelings of being unappreciated are cited by 79% of people that leave an organization voluntarily. Companies have responded by creating employee recognition programs. “The problem is, they're largely viewed as inauthentic and disingenuous, just sort of going through the motions,” Dr. White explains. The key: learning the language of appreciation.

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0:00.0	Hello, world.
0:11.3	Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 75.
0:16.1	I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:18.8	Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his talents to do
0:23.9	work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:29.0	Once a week, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal development, education,
0:34.6	career, and life planning, who shares experiences, tools, and insights to help our
0:39.8	listeners along their journeys. Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured expert, Dr. Paul
0:46.2	White. Welcome, Paul. Thank you, Doc. It's a pleasure to be with you. Dr. Paul White is a
0:51.6	psychologist, speaker, and consultant who makes work relationships work.
0:57.1	He is the co-author of three books, including the Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace,
1:02.6	written with Dr. Gary Chapman, who's the author of The Best Selling the Five Love Languages.
1:07.5	Their assessment, motivating by appreciation inventory and training resources,
1:13.2	have been used by numerous corporations, colleges, organizations, and nonprofit organizations,
1:18.5	and are available in multiple languages. Today, our topic of discussion on our expert interview,
1:26.0	why most employee recognition programs don't work and what
1:29.6	you can do about it. So why don't you take the floor for a minute and just talk about that
1:35.7	that whole playing field of employee recognition. Don, I'm a psychologist by training and actually
1:40.6	sort of came in this side door where I consult with family-owned businesses and deal with the family issues of working together and passing across generations.
1:49.0	And it was in one of those settings that I, the lack of communication between people, whether it's a family business or not, and the lack of appreciation people feel in the corporate world, they tried to answer that by setting up employee recognition
2:05.8	programs where people get recognized for how long they've been at the various
2:12.3	company organizations or for some performance.
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