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The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People

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I was so impressed with the book The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace. It was an easy read and had some amazing information. I was already a fan of Dr. Chapman's 5 Love Languages books which has empowered my marriage and my relationships with my children so as an office administrator I thought that I would give the Appreciation in the Workplace book a try. I was a surprised to find that my language of appreciation at work is different than my love languages with my spouse and children. It also opened my eyes to why I feel so unsettled when an employee tries to help me on a project. (Acts of Service is my least valued language in the workplace.) I have already done some research on the website for the book and am talking to my director about purchasing training kits for the rest of the management team and then eventually the staff. I have also given the book to my husband who is a production manager (even though I practically read the entire book out loud to him because I was so excited about the information in the book) so that he can show appreciation to his team too.

I would recommend this book to EVERYONE that works or volunteers with others. Especially those in a supervisory position.

This book is a quick read that explains how different people like to receive appreciation in different ways. For you hard-nosed numbers-crunchers out there, the authors do a good job making a business case for showing appreciation at work. The book is a good balance between head and heart. You need to show appreciation only when you really mean it, but you also need to intentionally focus your behavior toward others in a way that will make them feel appreciated. [And the type of appreciation you like may be very different from what your coworker likes.]

The book comes with a link and password to a web-based survey to help you identify your own languages, so you can share with others what sort of appreciation is most meaningful to you. But the most valuable use for the survey will be in giving it to others, so you can find out how to most effectively show appreciate toward them.

I work in corporate training and development, and there is no shortage of assessments that people use for trying to understand others. Each of these has its own strengths, but most of them require a fairly intense amount of study and practice to be of practical value. The value in the 5 Languages approach is that it is intuitive, easy to remember, and easy to act upon.

Really enjoyed the book. I came from a large retailer where our focus was on performance reviews and everyone turned it on at the mid-year point and at the end of the year. What was missing was appreciation and encouragement and that's where this book spoke to me. It's amazing what can happen to people when you offer them a little appreciation especially in their own language.
I'm familiar with the original book but didn't really see the connection to the corporate world until I read this book. There are some great examples and action items on what you can do for each language.
Our approach was to do the "blanket" approach and assume that everyone would "love" the gift or the annual luncheon. It was interesting - there were some people who would give away their gift or not show up for the lunch, and later you would hear them complain about these approaches. This book made me think - what would happen to our company if we learned to appreciate people in the language that speaks to them most.
Thanks for the insight!

I've never read any of the other books so I'm glad they explained the languages. I found it interesting and very practical. I work in the public sector, so I have little control over monetary rewards to the people that report to me. This book gives me a tool kit that will help me show appreciation that's both unique and specific to each person.

I've been a huge fan of the 5 Love Languages for a long time, so I was incredibly excited to see this workplace format come out. I'm not a big reader, but figured it would be a while before this was made into a movie, so I took the plunge and read it. The book was quick and easy to read, and kept my attention, which isn't always easy to do on paper.

The principles behind this book are a tremendous benefit to any company, regardless of how good or bad the company's office dynamics are, and are relevant enough that everyone gets it and sees how it applies to them.

I started by using this as a test study with one department in our company, and have had such great success that we're now in the ending stages of rolling it out to the rest of the company one department at a time. Already I've seen an increased level of understanding how individuals express and receive appreciation in the workplace. Our office is running smother and there seem to be fewer "flare ups" of tempers and personality differences.

In order to understand what you need as an individual (or realize what is missing but cannot put your finger on) and to understand what will motivate the individuals on your team - this is a must read!!!

I have my job search clients read this book and suggest the members of their family and network read it as well so they know how to support and encourage their job seekers by making them feel appreciated.

I rank this right up there with Myers Brigg and StrengthsFinder 2.0 as a must for everyone.
Well done!

Dr. Paul White and Dr. Gary Chapman have done an amazing job in guiding those of us in the work place, through communications with our co-workers. I work in the financial services industry and communication is very important both inside and outside of the industry. The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace has given me assistance in understanding different personalities and the recognition of the need to communicate and show appreciation differently, based on those personalities. This is a great book for individuals and even as a company-wide communication guide. Most of us don't like admitting that we don't always know how to communicate in the most effective manner. Even though one thinks communicating properly should be natural, the fact is, we often get so busy in our day to day activities that we fail to pay attention to key communication attributes. I think it is the natural desire for most of us to be able to treat people in ways in which they want to be treated. Thanks to Dr. White and Dr. Chapman for giving us the basic tools to help us treat others appropriately and thus helping us produce more meaningful and productive work environments.

As an entry-level employee, I greatly benefited from the concepts and applications in The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace. I have known about Dr. Chapman's 5 Love Languages book for a number of years and was interested in exploring how those Languages could translate into different aspects of my life.

As I read through the book, I not only read about how the various Languages are appropriately "spoken" in the workplace, but also how the authors applied their concepts in a real-world context. I appreciated the authors conducting and explaining their research in various workplaces around the country because it gave added credibility to their already excellent concepts. Reading how occupations as dissimilar as machinists, medical professionals, lawyers, and corporate employees can use these principles helped convince me that Languages of Appreciation know no vocational bounds.

I bought the Kindle version of the book and I thoroughly enjoyed the resources and format throughout the text. It was easy to read and navigate with links to online content for further exploration. There were application steps at the end of each chapter and also included a workbook at no additional charge.

Our most valuable business assets walk out the door every night. In The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace, Drs. Chapman and White provide a practical, actionable framework to help leaders motivate those people to walk back in the door the next morning and do their best work.

This book helped me think about how to motivate my employees positively, rather than negatively. It's not that I've never thought about any of the concepts in the book, but the five languages structure and the practical examples made appreciation easier to implement on a day-to-day basis. It's a quick read with lots of useful ideas.

I recommend the book for leaders who need a refresher on positive motivation and employees who want to be able to communicate appreciation more effectively to their co-workers.

Having read The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace, I was excited to read a book by professionals who clearly "get it". Gary Chapman and Paul White take all that is great about The 5 Love Languages, and adapt that knowledge into an area that desperately needs it... the work place.

The 5 Languages of Appreciation really assists the reader in recognizing what employee engagement looks like, tangibly, and provides a systems approach for effectively engaging employees. As someone who has had the responsibility of recruiting staff and finding ways to keep my Stars around when our company is not able to regularly incentivize, this book provides some great tools that keeps our profit and loss statement in mind, as well as the people making our company viable! I highly recommend this book as a solid way of strengthening employee morale, and creating a more dedicated workforce.