C – Celebrate – Recover our wellbeing

Recover outlines seven conversations you can have with your teams. Each topic is evidence based, so simply having these discussions will improve the wellbeing of the team they C and recover stands for celebrate. When people feel valued, it lifts the mood, it boosts morale, creates motivation. Everywhere I work appreciation is consistently in the top three things that make a great day at work. It drives engagement, and it also drives repetition and improves relationships and results. Here’s why. We know that genuine appreciation isn’t just giving a vague “Oh, thanks for the hard work.” Genuine praise means seeing and noticing the specific little things people do and appreciating those. And you know what happens when you appreciate something specific someone has done? It builds confidence because it lets us know we’re doing something right. So appreciation drives repetition because when you know what you want to see and you appreciate it, people will do more of it. Evidence shows that the strongest relationships at work and at home have a positive ratio of praise to criticism. And improvement. science shows the organisations that look to fix only what’s not working never improve. It’s the teams and organisations that identify what is working and learn from, and celebrate, and repeat that it’s those teams that get better results. So you can access the benefits of appreciation, not randomly but intentionally, by making time for people to call out the wonderful things colleagues have done that deserve praise.