Be grateful to your colleagues

Your co-workers have a strong influence in your life, and it’s important to show them gratitude for the things they do for you. Sometimes it might be something big, like staying late to help you finish an important report, and
other times it’s no more than lending a sympathetic ear to your tale of woe.

Regardless of what the favor is, whether it’s big or small, they still need to feel like you appreciate them.

The key ingredients in showing your appreciation to your co-workers
are:

• Be sincere.
• Use their name.
• Say“Thank you.”
• State why you appreciate their action.

Try these strategies to show your gratitude at work:

1. When your co-worker helps you complete your work, offer to return
the favor. For example, “Thanks, Sue, for helping me with that report. Frankly, I don’t know what I would’ve done without you! Let me know if you’re ever in a bind and I’ll return the favor.”

2. When a team member does an outstanding job on their part of the
project, you can say, “This is wonderful, John! I can see the hard work you must have put into this. Thank you for doing such an outstanding job on it. This is really going to help our project.”

3. Here’s another showing of gratitude: “Thank you for being there for me
yesterday, Cindy. I really needed to rant.”