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Once a year at Thanksgiving, Lime teams in each office get together for our annual gratitude ritual.\u00a0 It’s a time for us to pause, be present with each other and consciously bring to mind the things we are grateful for.\u00a0 For new team members, it can feel a\u00a0tad uncomfortable; a bit too authentic and real for comfort.\u00a0 \u00a0But, having participated in it, the universal response is that it is uplifting, deeply nourishing and injects and energy into the team that can be felt for a long time afterwards.\u00a0 The research on the business benefits of gratitude has been mounting up for years now.\u00a0 Just Google business benefits of gratitude<\/em>\u00a0and you’ll get a load of results.\u00a0 \u00a0Listening to this podcast is a good place to start\u00a0 –\u00a0https:\/\/hbr.org\/2013\/11\/the-big-benefits-of-a-little-thanks.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n But the ‘rules of the game’ that we are taught to follow in business don’t have an easy place for openly expressed heartfelt gratitude.\u00a0 We have rewards and recognition.\u00a0 We have performance bonuses.\u00a0 These days there are even apps that enable you to send a virtual ‘high five’ to a team member to share your appreciation.\u00a0 Yet our clients report that\u00a0expressing gratitude and appreciation is not a regular\u00a0part of their experience of work.\u00a0 Not so at Lime.\u00a0 The power of looking someone directly in the eye and sharing with them succinctly and authentically\u00a0what you appreciate about them is like rocket fuel for team performance.\u00a0 If you haven’t already, give it a try.<\/p>\n Now… for those of you who know Lime well, you know that we\u00a0care deeply about our clients and each other… but we are not typically described as “soft and fluffy”.\u00a0 On the same day as our annual gratitude ritual, we also hold our annual Thanksgiving cookoff.\u00a0 It part celebratory dinner and part bare-knuckled-competitive-cooking.\u00a0 This year the winning dish was seared scallops on a bed of butternut pumpkin puree topped with toasted pine nuts.\u00a0 Yum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once a year at Thanksgiving, Lime teams in each office get together …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelimegroup.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelimegroup.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelimegroup.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelimegroup.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelimegroup.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thelimegroup.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"https:\/\/thelimegroup.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelimegroup.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelimegroup.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelimegroup.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelimegroup.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}