Comments on: Why Praising Others Will Help You Reach Your Own Potential

By: Tip For Business Success: If You Don't Know The Answer, Be The First To Say It | Life's Too Good

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:43:58 +0000

[...] Praise Others – we all have different strengths and weaknesses. When you don’t know the answer, be open about it and ask for help. When you get the help, give credit where credit is due and praise those that helped you. People will be far more inclined to help you if you openly give credit and promote others, being comfortable doing so. An added bonus is that even though you were the one asking for help, by being comfortable praising those that helped you, you will often be seen as more authoritative yourself. [...]

By: 7 Grown-Up Career Lessons From Favorite Disney Movies | The Savvy Intern by YouTern

Mon, 21 May 2012 12:01:28 +0000

[...] it’s all too easy to accept praise, even if you aren’t deserving of it. Give credit where credit is due. If you take the spotlight for work you didn’t do, at some point the rug will be pulled out from [...]

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Light Friday: Why Breakfast Is the Most Important Meal — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:43:32 +0000

[...] Credit. “Sometimes it’s all too easy to accept praise, even if you aren’t deserving of it. Give credit where credit is due. If you take the spotlight for work you didn’t do, at some point the rug will be pulled out from [...]

By: Alan | Life's Too Good

Alan | Life's Too Good — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:16:00 +0000

shouldn’t the above comment be deleted?

not exactly adding much to the conversation…

Alan

By: Alan | Life's Too Good

Alan | Life's Too Good — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 08:24:00 +0000

Thanks for the comment Gharpoch,

Alan

By: Gharpoch

Gharpoch — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 05:58:00 +0000

Praising others can really get natural backlinks to your site. I own http://www.seolace.com and I used to praise other SEOs like Rand Fishkin. It helps me to get backlinks to my site.

By: Alan | Life's Too Good

Alan | Life's Too Good — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:07:00 +0000

Thanks mad hornets

By: Alan | Life's Too Good

Alan | Life's Too Good — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:14:00 +0000

Wow that didn’t work. This comment system is really restrictive. Why shouldn’t I be allowed to share a relevant article with you. OK in case you’re interested, click on my name to go to Life’s Too Good, then click on the ‘Life’ menu – it will be the 2nd or 3rd article on that page…

no worries if not but I just don’t like being so restricted by such a comment system – they’re meant to stop spam, not stop people adding value…

take care & best wishes,
Alan

By: Alan | Life's Too Good

Alan | Life's Too Good — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:10:00 +0000

fyi – I did add a link to that article in a follow-up comment, the comment appeared then disappeared again – it was an article on Cicero’s 6 mistakes of man- the point being that your comment & my article are basically the opposite of Cicero’s 1st mistake.

Click on my name above this comment and you should get to the article – either DISQUS or BrazenCareerist obviously don’t like links being put inline in the comments.

By: Alan | Life's Too Good

Alan | Life's Too Good — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:59:00 +0000

Apologies Sudangautam,

I did reply to your comment but it looks like somehow my reply did not get posted.

Perhaps because given your comment above, I included a link to a related article I thought you may be interested in. Just in case I’ll post this reply now then and perhaps try again with the link later.

Many thanks for your comment and I completely agree with your rule – it’s a good rule!

By: Alan Chatfield

Alan Chatfield — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:33:00 +0000

Wow – a Praise app. I’d love to hear more about that!

thanks for the comment!

By: Mark Smith

Mark Smith — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:06:00 +0000

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By: Why Praising Others Will Help You Reach Your Own Potential | Brazen Life | Man on a Mission

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:50:43 +0000

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By: Sudangautam

Sudangautam — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:42:00 +0000

Totally agree. You have gone into few details and i really enjoyed it. Yeah! sharing about the good attributes of someone and raising expectation to them really helps in organization too. People will try to meet your expectation and in the end it will help in organization’s productivity too. My rule is praise the people and raise expectation so that they will do their best.

By: WorkSimple

WorkSimple — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:06:00 +0000

Alan, you are completely spot-on. Praise is incredibly valuable to both employer and employee. Even a little praise can be the encouragement we need to get going and work better.

At WorkSimple, we have a Praise app just for this exact reason. When praise is easier to share, everyone will jump on the bandwagon.