How Should We Move Towards The Graciouz Society?
Imagine a society where people reciprocate the good deeds served upon them. It’s about the little positive actions and appreciations that improve interactions between people, colleagues, friends, and family members. People look forward to a society where people look beyond individual needs and reach out to others in need, but such kind actions are always limited. These kind actions are highly desirable, but one must truly reflect on our actions to forge the qualities of graciousness. Everyone plays different roles in society, and essentially, lets exam some of these key roles: -
As a customer
Unsurprisingly, in many societies across the world, most of us witness the lack of social graciousness in many aspects of our daily lives. Taking service consumption as an example, customers generally take service staff for granted. More than 66% of back- and front-end service staff do not feel customers’ appreciation, even though these staffs have tried their best to serve the customers. In the event of bad service experience, more than 60% of customers will spread it to their friends.
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As a colleague
Most of us are equally guilty when it comes to corporate graciousness for appreciating another colleague’s effort when assistance is given. The most common form of employee response in return to the assistance rendered is the verbal and written email for “thank you.” Such appreciations on collaboration or assistance get unnoticed within the corporate environment, let alone to be taken into consideration during employee performance appraisal.
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As a fortunate individual
Most people take the infinite blessings for granted and only to focus on the materialistic goals that are farfetched. However, the human truth is that most people would do something utmost possible to achieve sensual experience without the regards of the needy and unfortunate individuals among us. In the pursuit of material happiness, most people pursue what they do not have, and care less about those who can be happy with just little of what we have.
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As a friend
Commonly, friends take kind acts for granted. Far too often, these kind acts go unreciprocated and unappreciated that it becomes a habit for most people. Greedily, people look for more kind acts as the beneficiary instead of being the sponsor or doer. Such acts have inculcated as the normal behavior for most people that we have forgotten to be thankful to friends, family members, parents, siblings, and other social acquittances.
Forging Graciousness
Regardless of the roles we play in society, graciousness is one of the essential human values to uplift the social interaction and moral wellbeing. People need kindness and basic courtesy to treat others with respect. Similarly, the generosity of one’s spirit, graceful, with a tendency to care for others helps to alleviate the individual toward the path of self-fulfillment and self-actualization.
The understanding customer
It is perfectly fine to be demanding as a customer, ultimately customers are the lifeline of all businesses. But in the process of being demanding, it is important to understand that most service staffs are doing their utmost best to satisfy us as the customer. Treat the staffs with respect and do not be a bully or a threat. At times, it is crucial to adjust expectations, respect the rules bounded by the staff, and allow the supplier the opportunity to solve the problem.
Post buying experience, it is important to gratefully thank the staff for their service. Culturally, most people do not practice tipping, even if the service far exceeds expectations. However, it does make absolute sense to leave a feedback comment or some claps for the staff. In the instance, if the staff did well, some encouraging non-monetary comments would help to brighten the day for the staff, and if the service experience was not up to expectation, some kind comments for improvement might help to realign expectations on both ends.
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The credit-giving employee
Collaboration and teamwork are the successful traits of a productive organization. But amid teamwork, many employees do not give credit to those colleagues who have helped. Most managers and the management team are guilty of not giving enough credits to the employees, and not to mention tracking and recognizing individual accomplishments. A global study revealed that 79% of employees left their job due to a lack of appreciation for their work and contribution. Urgently, it is a soul-searching task to ask these managers, directors, and executives to give credit when its due.
Give due credit to the employee that has rendered the assistance. This is not just about some simple words of “thank you” or an email to the employee and copying the employee’s manager. The organization should have some form of credit tacking mechanism where all employees’ credits or merits are recorded and tracked. These credits should not just be known to the employee’s reporting manager but also to other managers, directors, and senior management team. Organizations that deploy proper credit tracking system will significantly increase employee appreciation and minimize employee turnover rate.
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The philanthropical person
It is important to count our blessings and be contented with what we have. Far more people do not have what we have. The ability to give a part of what we have to those in need is important as social progress because there are a lot of people who get left behind for whatever physical or financial reasons. Caring for the unfortunate people is a part of societal gratitude for any nation to progress towards the gracious society.
The total donations given to the needy has increased gradually over the years, but the number of donors has decreased for whatever personal reasons that might be. Just as we progress, it is important to care for those who get left behind. For those who can afford, it is important to give within our financial means to help those in need.
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The credit giving individual
Often, we have received help from friends, classmates, & family members, but many times, we merely thank them verbally or in some better scenarios, buying them a drink or a meal. According to a study, more than 90% of people considered themselves to be grateful to family and friends, but less than 15% would express gratitude regularly when help is given.
Between friends and family members, expressing gratitude has helped to foster better relationships. More importantly, if this gratitude is recorded, it can be better remembered as time goes by. In a scientific research study, expressing gratitude physically or digitally increases the likelihood that the beneficiary will return the gratitude when the opportunity arises. Although most people help someone without the need or request for the favor to be returned, it is always good to be on the receiving end when the real need arises.
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Graciouz
Graciouz is a tech startup with a focus on delivering gratitude for businesses, products, staffs, and people. Currently, Graciouz has four separate product lines that focus on: -
1. Graz.me (Customers’ Gratitude) – Business, service, & products reviews through Claps
2. Graciouz Product Suite (Employees’ Gratitude) – Measuring teamwork and performance
3. Graciouz Donations (Societal Gratitude) – Charity donation through crowdfunding
4. Servfie (Social Gratitude) – The Graciouz social media platform
Graciouz aims to bring out the goodness in people through our platform and collectively move everyone toward the Graciouz society. For more detail, visit www.graciouz.com