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Apparently the author of Love Languages has a new book out on appreciation in the workplace, based on many of the same languages as in the Love book, including physical touch. I think this is a HORRIBLE idea! Have any of you seen this? What are your thoughts? I always thought Languages was a good companion to MB, but I'm rethinking this based on this new direction the author has taken.
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Yuk!
Tel us a bit more, CW. Is there a link to a description?
I know I shouldn't pre-judge, but again - yuk!
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you can search for 5 languages of appreciation in the workplace. I'm not linking that! 
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I, of course, have not read it, so I only know the content that was put online about it. I bristle at 'quality time' and 'physical touch', but I don't know how they go in depth about it in the book. Quality time off? Quality time with your team at some resort, spouses excluded? Physical touch has no business in the business world, imho, that's just a good way to employ lawyers.
Has anyone here read it, know more about it than I? I'm thinking surely it can't be as horrible for marriages as I'm imagining, unless Mr. Chapman had a huge brain fart.
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My first thought on looking at the title:
"I guess organizations are so strapped for cash now they have to hand out appreciation to get people to stay, because that's all they have?"
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Amazon.com is showing me excerpts of the book. There is indeed a chapter on physical touch. It looks like it starts out with them saying that they received overwhelming concern at the thought that they would include such a chapter, followed by their justification of including it anyway.
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I have given my manager a lot of feedback over the years as to how I believe the situation in my job could be improved. If my manager acted on more of my feedback, I'd feel appreciated. None of my suggestions involve physical touch. I'm uncomfortable of the idea of my manager studying how best to touch me, although if we're just talking about a handshake here I'd say I'm not uncomfortable so much as distressed at the waste of time when there are so many other things that could be improved and so many better ways to show me appreciation.
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I'm uncomfortable of the idea of my manager studying how best to touch me 
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Meh.
Physical touch ain't shocking.
Maybe if you are a 3-piece person.
If you are in the trenches, caring for the sick and dying, touch is an every day fact of life.
And, yes, sometimes it will be a coworker.
/shrug
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Meh.
Physical touch ain't shocking.
Maybe if you are a 3-piece person.
If you are in the trenches, caring for the sick and dying, touch is an every day fact of life.
And, yes, sometimes it will be a coworker.
/shrug I agree there are certainly situations when touch is appropriate. I did a bit more reading of that chapter and they tried to address it. Nobody wears a suit in my job, but we are in a situation where touching each other would just not be normal. If people clapped each other on the back or something it wouldn't be inappropriate, but probably seem a little over-exuberant. Obviously people need to touch the sick and dying. But if my manager were following along here, I'd suggest he listen to the suggestions of his disgruntled employees before reading a book about how best to speak our appreciation languages. Of course, my suggestion would probably go ignored.
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Meh.
Physical touch ain't shocking.
Maybe if you are a 3-piece person.
If you are in the trenches, caring for the sick and dying, touch is an every day fact of life.
And, yes, sometimes it will be a coworker.
/shrug But if my manager were following along here, I'd suggest he listen to the suggestions of his disgruntled employees before reading a book about how best to speak our appreciation languages. Of course, my suggestion would probably go ignored. Bingo! So... what does it all boil down to? Boundaries, and the right of individuals to enforce them. If you don't like hand shakes and back claps... then nobody should be trying to shake your hand or pat your back. This should only have to be communicated once.
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Unfortunately, if I as a young person try to refuse handshakes (though I don't like being touched) I am likely to be seen as rude and vulgar and "not grown up."
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Y'know I don't mind handshakes or high fives when appropriate. But early in my career I had this creepy manager who would come up behind people in their cubes and give them unsolicited power neck and shoulder rubs. That to me was over the line, but I was young and didn't have the words to really express it.
I read somewhere that some people will touch others (nonsexually) as a show of dominance, but I can't for the life of me remember where.
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Y'know I don't mind handshakes or high fives when appropriate. But early in my career I had this creepy manager who would come up behind people in their cubes and give them unsolicited power neck and shoulder rubs. That to me was over the line, but I was young and didn't have the words to really express it.
I read somewhere that some people will touch others (nonsexually) as a show of dominance, but I can't for the life of me remember where. I was in several sports in school - football, track, wieghtlifting. A butt pat from teammates and/or coaches wasn't all that out of the norm. Mind you, however, that these were other guys. At that time I may have liked it if a female did... now it would give me the heebie jeebies. A handshake or a back pat is fine... but I have only allowed a hug once - the first time I dealt with a resident death on my shift. Largely because at the time I felt like I could have done more, and it wrecked me pretty bad. One of my coworkers stopped me when I was trying to get out the door, and I broke. Bleh.
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Give yourself a pat on the back with one of this nifty signs... ![[Linked Image from larrywinget.com]](http://www.larrywinget.com/images/pat-back-2004.jpg)
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I read somewhere that some people will touch others (nonsexually) as a show of dominance, but I can't for the life of me remember where. This is how some people use handshakes, though in my experience they are a vanishing breed.
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No kidding handshakes are a vanishing thing.
I met a client recently, only the second time I had ever laid eyes on me. We have only ever had professional contact. She came to me for a kiss on the cheek, and I was forced to comply or seem rude.
This "kissing people who are not members of my family thing" has got well out of hand.
Do you get Come Dine With Me over there? On that, complete strangers kiss instead of shaking hands in the proper way.
Who is to blame for this epidemic of kissing strangers?
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I met a client recently, only the second time I had ever laid eyes on me. We have only ever had professional contact. She came to me for a kiss on the cheek, and I was forced to comply or seem rude.
This "kissing people who are not members of my family thing" has got well out of hand.
Do you get Come Dine With Me over there? On that, complete strangers kiss instead of shaking hands in the proper way.
Who is to blame for this epidemic of kissing strangers? I am fairly certain that this is a European practice, so I blame them.
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I was about to challenge you to a dual for that comment, but then I realised you must be right.
French people kiss on both cheeks and Italians kiss THREE TIMES! Good grief, they could be there all day! And in France, they make a noise when they do it, like sucking a lemon.
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Well, of course I'm right. I was very politely and obliquely blaming the French.
P.S. Romans 16:16 was written to Europeans, also.
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