#73 - Powerful leadership skills - Appreciation

A great leader makes people excited to move in a certain direction. A great leader makes everyone around them better and more confident.

One of the most powerful ways to do that, is by becoming good at showing appreciation. It costs nothing and it can be remembered forever.

Today's episode is about Powerful leadership skills with focus on appreciation leadership skill.

The episode is split up in four parts:

Part 1:
Appreciation is a skill that you can study to learn

Part 2:
What is most powerful, appreciation or bonuses?

Part 3:
Tips on how to show appreciation, that you most likely haven't heard before.

Part 4:
How are we applying appreciation as a part of Great.com

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Today's episode is an entrepreneurship episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to become a better business person.

We are often sharing real life examples that have happened previously in our careers. What we have learned, who we have learned from and how we have applied that into our real lives. Everything in a mix with personal thoughts and reflections.
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Powerful leadership skills and specifically appreciation leadership skill.

In the first part of the episode we are exploring what appreciation is. If it is a skill that you can learn and who you would have learned it from if you are good at it already. If you are not good at appreciation, who's fault it that?

In the second part we dive into how appreciation and compliments work as a motivator for work. How do positive feedback and showing gratitude compare to giving financial bonuses? What is it that makes appreciation so powerful and what is it about money that makes it work or not?

The third part is about what happens if you don't show appreciation and how that impacts your team. We also look into what are some very efficient ways to show appreciation and how can you learn to do it very well?

Finally we round the episode off by talking about how we apply this knowledge in building Great.com. What are we doing to increase motivation and morale in the team by using appreciation.

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