Giving
positive feedback encourages employees to bring out the best. It puts lots of
motivation in their productivity and helps them making a happy
working atmosphere.
Here is how it happens.
There are some managers who normally prefer
to give negative feedback when you make a mistake or when you are not doing up
to your commitment. They may ignore your achievements in the way the act.
And, sometime behave like it's what you are required to do as usual !
I will say, from my personal experience,
this kind of managers kill your productivity immediately. It was ancient
era when people were motivated by one and only -money. But, now-a-days, nobody
goes for that ! People want respect and recognition besides getting
financial reward.
On the other side, there are managers who
like to give positive feedback. They come to you, congrats you, encourage you
or talk in a positive way even when you show some lack of creativity or you
fail to meet your commitment. When managers give positive feedback, they
don't only give a feedback, but they also create inspiration,
inspiration to do thing in a very best possible way.
I have couple of personal experiences where I saw how
positive feedback creates positive result, how it helped me bringing out my
best in different cases.
In Disney, I got the
opportunity to meet some awesome-wonderful managers. My first manager Ethan-I
won't forget him ever! He is really tremendous! He always
smiles, encourages and leads from the front. He stops, asks, discusses and
recognizes! Everybody including me is his fan at the working place. His presence
brings us a fresh beginning even at the last hour shift!
My current manager Debbi is
also another wonderful lady who always-always encourages and smiles. When there
is an issue, she gets involved, helps us to find a best solution. When there is
a mistake, she seeks for the solution rather than asking why and how it
happened!!
I try and will try forever to
give positive feedback and leading from the front.
Here I share one of my personal
experiences weather I got to put it in my personality or not...
In our housing at Disney, we
have at least two to three housing program every month. Last month, I attended
in one of the programs. We had some outdoor activity as well as indoor
activities. I normally prefer to hang out outside. Among the outdoor activities,
there was an event-I don't know what it's called in English- it's like you
through three pillow type small cloth ball in a whole which is nearly 10-12
meters away from you and around 200c.m above the ground. If you can make two
out of the three balls, you win a prize.
Well, as I used to play cricket
once in my beautiful country Bangladesh, I made the through all the three
time-three out of three !! I got a prize-a Disney T-shirt...Yammi...
I stood in line to play it
again. And, I made it again!! This time I asked for a Disney shorts!!
While I was in line, I didn't
see anybody made it three times in a row. Some of us made it two out of
three-they got prize too. I saw a boy who stood in line two times but failed to
through it on the right spot. His friend was telling him not to try again as he
thought it would not be possible yet again. I, just from my interest, went to
him and said him that ''it is possible and really possible to hit it every time
you want-you only need to look on the whole and push the ball really slow
rather than looking to your hand back and forth and throwing fast.''
I said, ‘‘It’s really easy dude, you can easily make it''
He stood in the line. And, he
succeeded in the first ball, second one was missed, and before he attempted to
through the last one, he looked to me. I tried to say again that ''it's easy''
in my eye language. He threw it, and made it...yammi!! Everybody became happy;
he came to me with his other friends, and thanked me a lot!
I learnt again that Positive
feedback works!!
Some of the quotes I
liked from my managers:
· Hey Ziaul ! You doing a great
job ! Everybody likes you as well. What's the secret man?
· Here is the king!!
· You are one of the best intern
here!! You should be proud of you!! (lol..It just makes me happy :))
· There is no mistake! It just
something you start learning in the right way!!
· There is no problem at all!!
· Ziaul, where do you get so much
energy?
Well, I wrote these only to show how positive my managers are in
the way they connect and engage, not to show how well I do!!(I always wish I
were the best!)
The followings are for YOU !
I love getting positive feedback to bring out my best and giving
positive one to encourage my fellow!!
Do you ???
Happy positive feedbacking :)
Zia
Disneyland, Florida.
June 21,2012
