> Thank You Seminar

The Business of ‘Thank You’ — Gratitude and the True Bottom Line.

To be  grateful and to welcome the words “thank you” are two of the most important things you can do as a business leader.   How can the “attitude of gratitude” make your business and life better? Phil will be glad to share advice from scholars, philosophers, and his own consulting conversations.  Contact Phil any time to book his Thank You Seminar for your organization or business.

Meanwhile, check out some resources from the Seminar

> Articles Online

Why Gratitude is Good.  Article and video lectures by UC-Davis Professor Robert Emmons, regarded as the world’s leading scientist studying gratitude.

6 Ways to Create a Company Culture of Gratitude by Liz Jazwiec. Solid, detailed insights from Jazwiec’s experience as a corporate vice president and as a consultant, from ModernCare.com

> A Few Good Quotes

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
Ralph Marston

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie

Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labours of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
Albert Einstein

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it – would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
Ralph Marston

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Seneca

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude is a two fold love – love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.
Henry Van Dyke

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus

To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.
Steven Covey

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
William Arthur Ward

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.
Leigh Hunt

The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar

> Songs to Set the Mood

Gratitude - Earth Wind and Fire

Kind and Generous – Natalie Merchant

Thank You – Alanis Morrisette

Thank You for Being a Friend – James Taylor

Now Thank We All Our God – Hymn by Martin Rinkart, translated into English by Catherine Winkworth

Maybe I’m Amazed – Paul McCartney