Speaker 1: 0:15

Totally serious. Welcome back to Corporate Strategy, the podcast. That could have been an email. I'm Bruce, I'm Clark and we're back after the last episode.

Speaker 2: 0:24

There is absolutely no nonsense in this episode. This is going to be straight to the point.

Speaker 1: 0:28

Straight to the point no jokes, no tomfoolery, no filler.

Speaker 2: 0:33

I hope you're ready. I'm actually not ready. I always that's a good warm up, you know all the nonsense just kind of gets the engine going for whatever we're about to talk about, doesn't? Feel normal, does it?

Speaker 1: 0:47

Yeah, now we're just like. There's no kind of easing into it, we're just jumping off the clip right into the topic, right in. We wasted so much of your time last time that we owe you this, which is what you're about to get, which is the topic of the day, which is Clark.

Speaker 2: 0:58

Oh, yeah, sure, I'd like to introduce it. Yeah, we've been thinking. We've been thinking it's been a little while since we've done a sort of miniseries and after we've been talking the last couple of weeks, we thought to ourselves, you know what, we brought this up a few times and we've never really adapted it for the workplace and really dove in. So we thought, you know what, let's introduce a new miniseries on this episode and so this won't actually be the first episode of the min-series. It's really just an introduction, because we both have some travel coming up and I think or maybe I do you have travel, I have travel.

Speaker 1: 1:29

No, I'm not going anywhere.

Speaker 2: 1:31

It's just me, okay, I have travel coming up. If I have travel coming up, that means we need to plan ahead, get a little intro to the series out, and that way we can keep everything on track. So, are you ready? You ready for this topic? I'm ready.

Speaker 1: 1:44

I am ready for this topic. All right, We've already wasted two minutes so please, no more.

Speaker 2: 1:48

We're doing great, let's keep wasting time. So the topic we've hinted about this for a while, you know CAC kind of resembles. You know the workplace, you know how you're feeling your workplace, happiness score, whether you should leave your company or stay at your company and so on. But something that really ties into one of those aspects, which is the culture portion of culture, autonomy, challenge, compensation or CAC, is really how you feel appreciated, like how work ultimately ties into how you feel about life and if you're satisfied at work. And a really common thing we brought up a few times are the love languages. So, like you know, in any relationship everybody has, you know, some sort of love language that fits into like five categories and we wanted to think about, well, how do you adapt that to work? Because at work obviously it's not a love language. Like, you can't bring physical touch into work unless you love talking to HR, and then HR will gladly talk to you about physical touch.

Speaker 2: 2:43

But there's a really good book that my wife told me about, which is the five languages of appreciation at work, and so it basically just talks about well, how do people feel appreciated when they're at work and everybody kind of feels appreciated about, you know, with different things, and I think the five kind of going into each of the five is words of affirmation, acts of service, quality time, tangible gifts and appropriate physical touch. That's a really key word and I think it'd be interesting for us to. Yeah, appropriate please Don't put quotes around that that's a strict, appropriate. But I thought it'd be interesting for us to not only talk about each of these and our perspective on it, but also talk about what we think we might be. So you and I took a little quiz to see what our primary language of appreciation is in the workplace and I actually think it was the same. So we kind of ended up having the same exact language of appreciation as our primary.

Speaker 2: 3:39

But during this mini series we essentially want to break down what each of these are, how we kind of feel about it, our different perspective from managerial perspective, but also the you know employee perspective, and really kind of give our two cents Because, to be honest with you, like I'm a little skeptical about some of these, and maybe it's just me being skeptical, but I want to hear your perspective as we kind of break them down to see like, okay, where's your head at Where's my head at and throughout the series. We'll essentially break them down. We'd love to get feedback from you guys so we may do a poll or two, or make everybody do a quiz that wants to, to see what their language of appreciation is, and just get your overall feedback on how can we appreciate each other better and how do we actually change our styles to help others feel appreciated as well.

Speaker 1: 4:23

So I want to be clear. You're saying we a lot in this. I am familiar with the idea of love language. This is completely, totally new to me, so I'm with the audience on this one. I got a lot of questions, I got a lot of concerns, but I'm very curious to see where this goes and why and how, because you might be skeptical, but I'm skeptic crazy.

Speaker 2: 4:48

Yeah, yeah, it's going to be fun. So I think you know what, to figure out the format, and we'll probably end up trying one and then like adapting, seeing how we want to do it. But I think obviously an overview of what it is, why it matters, who kind of could be the right people, or how do you kind of you know, suss out, hey, are you this thing? That way you can basically change your management style. But a little bit of a background on the people, so like, who wrote this?

Speaker 2: 5:13

I think this, this book in particular, was. I think it actually started as two people kind of doing research on, like, appreciation of workplace. So the gentleman, it's the five languages of appreciation of workplace. So the gentleman, um, it's the five languages of appreciation of workplace. Okay, and essentially it's done by Dr Gary Chapman, dr Paul White, they coauthored the book and you love it when they throw a doctor in front of their, their titles, right and it basically was to help organizations boost morale and retention by showing meaningful appreciation.

Speaker 2: 5:42

So these guys kind of got together and they said, hey, let's write a business book. And I think it turned into more than that for them of saying you know what it's not only about businesses understanding these things so they can retain people and grow them and so on, but it also is relevant to everybody working, because it's not just a top-down thing. It actually is very much. You know, how do you just work well together and show your appreciation towards the people that you work with so that way they feel like they're more included in everything. So I think it's going to be really interesting to kind of dive into some of these things and I can tell you I've started reading the book and some of the things even. I'm just like, ooh, this one feels like a cringy drink, the Kool-Aid or you know, get on with the organization, not a let's all just be cool human beings towards each other, some skeptical a little skeptical.

Speaker 1: 6:26

All right, yeah, no, I. I mean you made me take this test to see what I was and my reaction to the test was not positive. Uh, I was like, firstly, half of these if you try this on me, I'll punch you in the throat. The other half I wish this was true like, yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna select this answer because it sounds nice, but I've never once experienced this in my life. I would love to know how you can actually get this kind of appreciation in the workplace. So very curious, these doctors and their little methodology they've come up with, because, uh, some of it seems fantasy to me yeah, yeah, it's also interesting.

Speaker 2: 7:05

I don't remember when this was written.

Speaker 2: 7:06

I'll have to see if I can find that, but you know, we should probably adapt this.

Speaker 2: 7:10

You know, a lot of our listeners work in technology and I think there's very much so like obviously, the remote culture of employment in tech.

Speaker 2: 7:19

So I think it'll be interesting to like talk about OK, you know, if you are working in a hybrid or if you're fully at the office versus if you're remote, how do you kind of you know, adapt this sort of you know, appreciation language to the individual? So I think it's going to be really interesting to kind of break this down, look at it, all the vectors and just talk about, like, does this even make sense? Like, to your point, it's like hey, that sounds fine, but does it actually make any sense or does it just not make sense to us? So I think we'll probably end up having to reach out to our listeners and our audience maybe some people that have been on here before to see if they could potentially take the little quiz we did to figure out what theirs might be. Or maybe we create a better test, because I'd be interested to like hear their perspectives on hey, my top is quality time in the workplace and kind of talk about like what that looks like for that.

Speaker 1: 8:10

I love engaging with the audience when they let me no physical contact, of course, appropriately, appropriately, appropriate.

Speaker 2: 8:17

Engaging is kind of an aggressive word. No touching, be careful.

Speaker 1: 8:21

It's always money in the banana stand. Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 2: 8:24

So, finally, the five languages. I want you to think about the five languages of appreciation that they outlined, which there could be more. I think we should challenge it a little bit. So, the first one words of affirmation, two acts of service, three quality time, four tangible gifts and five appropriate physical touch. So keep those five in mind.

Speaker 1: 8:45

That wasn't included in the test I took.

Speaker 2: 8:48

Appropriate physical touch.

Speaker 1: 8:49

No. Oh Might have to find another test. I mean, maybe my scores would be totally different. It wouldn't. I hate physical contact.

Speaker 2: 9:01

Oh, I love it. And then you know, maybe we'll do a grand reveal at the end or maybe during the episode that's our top one or our secondary, we can kind of bring up where we think we stand. Going through that You'll see how it goes All right, sounds good.

Speaker 2: 9:15

So how do we start this? So I think what we do and probably not today because we're just introing, but I think what we do is we do a little bit of thinking on words of affirmation. You know, the book has a chapter. I think we could read it. I've already kind of read it. It's a pretty easy read, so like we could go back and forth. So maybe what I do is I'll give you a little bit of the context and some of the anecdotes that are shared from the book and then I think we kind of just break it down together to talk about the appreciation language and we can kind of let the listeners know whether we feel this one or not, or if this one's in our primaries, and then kind of talk about well, how do we adapt it to the corporate world and thinking of it from a managerial and also an employee standpoint.

Speaker 1: 9:53

So my curiosity in all of this is you know, I understand me, I understand what I like from an appreciation language, which apparently is actually impossible. But how do I adapt this and understand my team and the peers around me and how can I use this to help them? Because I feel like you know, 25% of this is understanding you, 75% is understanding others. So I'm very curious on this little series on the education side, for how we can learn to read and work with others and better use these tips and tricks to help them out. I agree.

Speaker 2: 10:33

I mean, if there's one thing we all need, it's to appreciate each other more and treat each other like humans, not just objects, in the workplace. So I think if we do this, it fits into our whole mantra, which is how do we just make the corporate world kind of a good place to be for the employee and fight back against the corporation? So I think we all could learn a little bit about this. I love it Sweet. Well, if we don't have any nonsense like what do we have Nothing, what do we?

Speaker 1: 10:58

have. Is this it? What is 11 minutes? 11 minutes. There was no nonsense in that. I mean, is that all the corporate strategy is is 11 minutes of no nonsense? I know Right.

Speaker 2: 11:09

I mean, everyone's going to be so disappointed. They might listen to this and be like holy cow. This was the worst episode ever, cause there was no nonsense but this is what the previous episode is, the filler episode.

Speaker 1: 11:18

Do not listen, definitely don't listen to the one prior.

Speaker 2: 11:22

But imagine, imagine if all our episodes were just like this straight to the point, under 15 minutes. You think people would like that.

Speaker 1: 11:29

No.

Speaker 2: 11:30

Yeah, I did, I agree. Everybody on your discord tells us they love the craziness. We even had a poll at one point we put up to see how much goof would you like? And people said more goof. And I think, if anything, we've doubled down.

Speaker 1: 11:45

We've doubled down on that promise they want the goofy movie every episode. What's it power?

Speaker 2: 11:53

glove power line. Can you do the goofy?

Speaker 1: 11:56

do the I knew you could do it. I knew you had to. What? What can't I do? That's true. You know I was good, I was just gonna share secrets of my life. Uh, that was a close one. The filter almost came off, the mask almost came off of Bruce and revealed something.

Speaker 2: 12:19

When you said what can't I do, I wanted to say appropriate physical touch.

Speaker 1: 12:26

I mean I can't, I won't, I won't do it, I won't do it. But yeah, no, there's multiple things. I'd do anything for love, but I won't do that.

Speaker 2: 12:37

Please don't Good. Good, I'm happy you abide by that rule. So yeah, anyways, that's the topic.

Speaker 1: 12:41

That's serious. I'm excited, so I think. Next steps Obviously, this is a short one. This is a quickie For our audience. If you're not in Discord, you need to get in there. Step one open your podcast platform, whatever it is, be it Spotify, apple, amazon. You pick, click the show notes. At the bottom of the show notes there's a link with all the things. I think it's. The first link in the link tree is join the Discord. You need to get in here. Step two Clark because Clark actually knows what's going on with this is going to to post in the Corporate Strategy channel of that Discord some questions, some polls, some discussions once this goes live. This is going live on Monday July, hold on, hold on. I'm ready. Monday July 8th. I think that's the day Superman comes out.

Speaker 1: 13:31

No 7th Monday, july 7th. Superman comes out on the 8th Tuesday. Heck, yeah, can't wait. So once this episode is out, we're going to have some questions. Please answer them. If we have that little test, please take it, because the more data we have, the more, and again, we're very much not going to use your data for anything other than just the content for this episode. So don't feel like we're going to do anything with it. We don't. We're not smart enough to do that. We don't even make money on this podcast, while we make money on your information on this. So please fill out any, any requests, surveys, polls so we can use this for better content for the episodes. And stay tuned, because each episode in this series is going to cover either one or two or two of the various topics in the appreciation language, so two of the various topics in the appreciation language. So stay tuned, stay ready to participate. We need you stay curious Stay golden.

Speaker 1: 14:27

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Speaker 2: 15:05

I think you crushed it. I mean, if you did just have a child, you can buy a baby onesie with a corporate strategy logo on it.

Speaker 1: 15:10

Just keep that in mind, and I know people who just had a child and I still have not bought them one. What is wrong with me? The child's name is Clark. They named him after you. Yeah, it's literally my name. He needs this. He needs this. How can he grow up to be a great corporate strategist like the elder Clark? Start him early. Start him early, just like cigarettes. If you smoke young, you build up an immunity so you can just continue to smoke old and not have any of the negative effects.

Speaker 1: 15:41

Yeah, really the issue is, most people don't start until they're like 16.

Speaker 2: 15:43

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Speaker 1: 15:47

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Speaker 2: 16:08

That cool menthol flavor back of the throat I was going to say menthol to the back of the throat when you're two years old. I mean that'll really set you up for success in life.

Speaker 1: 16:21

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Speaker 2: 16:23

I mean so convenient. You just stop on your way to taking them out to you know daycare. You can secondhand smoke them in the car too that's always a great thing to do and just start getting going. You know early if you're on that train, and then you know once they're ready, once they're able to actually hold things on their own, just give them one of their own in the car I couldn't agree more.

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Speaker 1: 19:45

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Speaker 2: 19:49

See, this is going to throw everyone for a loop. They're like wait, wait, wait. No goof at the front, but goof on the back. No insult is coming. Usually you get the sandwich. Usually you get the goof sandwich.

Speaker 1: 19:57

This time you only got goof at the end, and you know we're happy to provide the goof however it is needed. I think that does it. Please look forward to our next episode, where we get deeper into the appreciation language. Smoke your cigs, drink your dirt milk. I'm Bruce, I'm Clark and you're on mute. See you next week, dot cow.