Acknowledgement

It is amazing to me, that when we sit back and look at how we acknowledge people it becomes obvious that we very rarely do it. Although acknowledgement is a very strong tool to use in all situations, we always forget to appreciate things that we see and are part of each day.
Working for an organisation that delivers performance programs it is apparent to me how much people want to acknowledge others and how powerful they realise it is as a tool but amazingly internally, acknowledgement for success or gratefulness is rare and although we have our own reward program to acknowledge people it is not commonly used. Having looked closely at the reason for this it is because we rely on other people to assess the acknowledgement - someone who is not normally a part of the reason for the acknowledgement but someone however that is responsible to approve the acknowledgement. I believe this is a core problem in our society today. If everyone felt comfortable with acknowledging others and did not believe that an external party was required to assess or further acknowledge this then we would be more comfortable putting forward acknowledgements. It is apparent in the hierachical society that we have today that we are always relying on someone further up the tree approving what we are thinking or witnessing however, if we were just happy to say thankyou or well done to someone because we believe they deserve it and they then appreciate it purely because they deserve this and do not have to wait for someone else to put a worth on this acknowledgement then we would be further ahead with the process than we are today.
We should continue to thank and show gratitude for the things that others do for us all the time as once we start we continue to feel the success from giving acknowledgement it will start to come in our direction from others wanting to acknowledge us.