Do you enjoy compliments? Are you comfortable with giving compliments?
Compliments have a way of enhancing someone’s day. It seems to rejuvenate and embolden them. Steven Demaio wrote a good article for the Harvard Business Publishing blog called ‘The Art of Giving Praise’. Read it!
A few years, I had the privilege of emceeing for a conference for Solutions Focused practitioners. The late-co-founder of Solutions Focused Brief Therapy, Insoo Kim Berg taught us the value of compliments. Essentially, she encouraged us to apply:
1) Direct Compliments
2) Indirect Compliments
3) Self-Compliments
Which of these are you most comfortable with? Which of these are Asians most comfortable with: direct, or indirect compliment? The initial belief did not match the practice. Time and time again, I get to dispel these false assumptions and theories.
Give somebody a compliment today.
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