Praise worth giving

Who on my team deserves recognition this week?

To recognize people well, get specific: find the actual wins from the week – the thing shipped, the goal hit, the quiet save – and name the person and the accomplishment together. This preset gathers those moments every Friday so your praise lands as real and earned rather than a generic “nice work.” Radical Candor’s whole case for praise is that vague approval barely registers; specific, sincere recognition is what people actually remember.

What this is for

Good work goes unrecognized for the dullest of reasons: you didn’t see it, or you saw it and forgot by the time you had a chance to say something. The wins that do get praised are the loud, visible ones, while the quiet save and the steady contributor go unmentioned, which teaches people that the way to be valued is to be loud rather than to be good.

The Praise worth giving preset closes that gap. Each Friday it collects the specific accomplishments from the week – shipped work, goals met, help given, problems solved – and ties each to the person behind it, so you can recognize people for things that actually happened. Kim Scott’s point in Radical Candor was that caring personally shows up in specifics; this hands you the specifics.

Who should use this

Managers who want to recognize people more but lose the moments in the week’s noise. You’ll get the wins gathered and attributed.

Leaders of teams where quiet contributors go unseen. You’ll catch the saves that don’t announce themselves.

Anyone whose praise has gotten generic. You’ll trade “great job, everyone” for recognition with a name and a reason attached.

The prompt

Find the specific wins worth recognizing from the last week: shipped work, goals hit, help given, problems solved. Name the person and the accomplishment so I can give genuine, specific praise rather than a generic 'good job.'

How to use

Click here to create a new Echo using this preset. You'll be able to customize the prompt and schedule before it starts generating answers.