Hello there!
How much time do you spend in the workplace, on your business or at school? I bet it’s significant!
So how about spreading some love and kindness in that venue too? Love is not just for friends and family…it’s for every relationship, project and undertaking.
You will increase your sense of well-being and everyone else’s as well. Research shows that by doing, receiving AND observing kindness, we create positive feelings and improve our health! Kindness is healthy and contagious!
The kinder your environment, the more productive the interactions will be; and healthier the connections. Staff, clients and colleagues will give more of their time, their commitment and their creativity.
Kindness pays in business…even Donald Trump honors this principle. An agency being nice to his wife paid off in huge and surprising dividends months later… See here.
Don’t let this be the motivation though – let increased business be a natural outcome of genuine and real kindness. With just the profit motive as its foundation, the love and kindness in a business will be hollow and have little lasting impact.
Manipulation is not kindness.
Here are some suggestions for acts of kindness in the workplace:
- Write letters of appreciation to staff, colleagues, managers, clients
- Deliver INSPIRED customer service…find ways to WOW your customers – internal and eternal ones
- Organize your work space, offer to help a colleague do same
- Offer to assist a colleague with a project, especially if you enjoy the work and they don’t
- Stop and have a sincere conversation with the support staff if you are management and with management if you are not – reach beyond your inner circle of comfort
- Tell your manager or professor what they do really well and you appreciate
- Tell your staff how much you appreciate their efforts – with words letter or a treat
- Take your best client(s) to lunch
- FORGIVE your colleagues or supervisors or clients or teachers for something that’s been bothering you for months or years. (this is love & kindness towards YOU too)
- Brighten work space with flowers, plants or pictures
- Pick up some rubbish/trash around your workplace (inside or outside)
- Compliment a work colleague for their excellence (one you don’t have the best relationship with)
- Recommend a competitor to a potential client if you are unable to meet their needs
- Give another driver your parking spot in the company garage
It’s right to be kind, it improves your health and well-being AND it happens to make great business sense at the same time. How perfect is that? 🙂
Remember, have FUN with this. If it’s not coming from the heart, it’s not kindness.
Wishing you an abundance of love and kindness..and the joy that will follow,
♥∞
