{"id":841,"date":"2009-09-25T10:08:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T14:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/?p=841"},"modified":"2016-02-27T11:03:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T16:03:07","slug":"the-power-of-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2009\/09\/25\/the-power-of-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Thank You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2086641\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-843\" title=\"thankyou\" alt=\"thankyou\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/thankyou11.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/psd\" rel=\"cc:attributionURL\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/psd\/<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2\" rel=\"license\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/div>\n<p>As I was reading Andrew Careaga&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/highered.prblogs.org\/2009\/09\/25\/friday-five-pay-it-forward-edition\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> this morning about five ways to &#8220;pay it forward&#8221; in the social mediasphere, I realized there&#8217;s one more thing I would add to the list. It works in not only the social media world, but the real world as well.<\/p>\n<p>Say thank you to someone today. Tell them you appreciate them, their work, their effort, their contributions, their leadership, anything. It takes just a moment and has a very powerful effect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC043681.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-845\" title=\"DSC04368\" alt=\"DSC04368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC04368-150x15011.jpg\" \/><\/a>If you want to go all out, that&#8217;s fine too. A communications professor this week dropped off homemade chicken curry for us this week as a thank you for extra effort we put in on a project she&#8217;s managing. A colleague in our admissions office once brought us cookies with web terms iced on them. Two of the presidents here have taken a moment from their insanely busy schedule to send personal notes to me thanking me for my work (one was even hand-written on paper.)<\/p>\n<p>Those are all very nice touches that make us feel appreciated, and if you have the time to make an effort like that, it&#8217;s great. Sometimes though, a simple thank you is a powerful thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say thank you to someone today. Tell them you appreciate them, their work, their effort, their contributions, their leadership, anything. 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