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A few days ago, I read a fascinating article on the Healthy Workforce Institute website. The author begins by addressing the meanness and cruelty we see in today’s world.
Instead of allowing this negativity to drag us down, she urges us to respond with kindness. In particular, she invites each of us to start a kindness revolution in our workplace.
The article got me thinking about specific acts of kindness we can do for our co-workers. Here’s the list I brainstormed. I would love to hear your ideas, too!
- Bring a favorite book to work and share it with a co-worker
- Offer to take over so someone can get a much-needed break
- Commit to not complaining during an entire shift
- Offer to help without being asked
- Give sincere compliments
- Clean up a mess you didn’t make
- Introduce yourself to a new employee from another department
- Offer to pick up or trade a shift when someone needs the day off
- Tell a co-worker something nice you heard someone say about them
- Redirect the conversation if someone begins to gossip
- Hold the elevator or open the door for someone
- Compliment a co-worker to their supervisor
- Do a task nobody else wants to do
- Write an encouraging quote on the whiteboard in a meeting room
- Pick up litter on the lawn
- Have lunch with a co-worker whom you don’t know well
- Ask how someone is doing, then stop and listen to their response
- Leave an anonymous thank you note on a manager’s desk
- Straighten up the employee break room
- Give a hand-written thank you note to a co-worker who helped you out
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