6. How full is your bucket??
How is our team’s bucket??
7. Theory of the Dipper and
the Bucket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O63Wip1iYro
8. What is bucket dipping?
Bucket dipping is when you do or say something to or
about someone that is hurtful-or even when you neglect
to do something that would have filled someone else’s
bucket.
It is more than recognition. It involves relationships, time spent
in meaningful activity, and providing experiences that help
each individual know that he or she matters and that his or her
life is meaningful.
What is bucket filling?
11. How do you respond to negativity?
What strategies do you (can you)
employ to keep negativity out of your
life?
Partner Share
12. Reflect
In what life situations (be as specific as
possible) is it easier to allow yourself to
become negative?
In what situations will people view you as
positive? negative? overall?
17. Good news…
Great recognition and praise can immediately transform a
team. And just one person can infuse positive emotions
into an entire group by filling buckets more frequently.
Kid President shares the things you think we should say more often
18. Not so good news…
Majority of us don’t give or receive anywhere near the amount of
praise that we should.
The result…
We are less productive and more disengaged in our jobs.
65% of
Americans
received no
recognition in
the workplace
last year.
19. According to the US Department of Labor:
The #1 reason
people leave
their jobs:
They don’t feel
appreciated.
21. It is estimated that there are 22 million workers in the US alone, who
are extremely negative or “actively disengaged”.
This is not only disheartening but expensive. As far as productivity
goes, it would be better for organizations financially if people who are
overly negative stayed home. When they show up for work they are
counterproductive. The overflow of negativity decreases satisfaction
and productivity.
Negative emotions are tied to...decreased life span and longevity,
increased risk for heart attack, increased risk of stroke, greater stress,
less energy, fewer friends, more pain, less success, etc…
90% of doctor visits are stress-related.
23. Spiraling downward
● Spiraling downward is not hard to do when your bucket is
being emptied.
● Not only do you feel down, but you are less productive
because of it, and you bring others down with you by
reactively dipping from their buckets.
● When you interact with people on these days, they quickly
sense and are affected by the negativity that you radiate.
● It is not easy to hide--in fact it is highly contagious!
● It is possible for just one or two people to poison an entire
workplace.
24. Partner Share
How can you shape your schedule to avoid the
downward schedule? or how can you renew a
focus?
What can you do if you don’t regularly receive
recognition or praise?
25. How do you stop the spiral?
just one or two people… with a lot of power...
28. 9 out of 10
people say they
are more
productive when
they’re around
positive people.
29. Positive emotions are an essential daily
requirement for survival.
Not only do they improve your physical and
mental health, but they can also provide a
buffer against depression and illness.
30. Research proves the power in positivity...
Increasing positive emotions could lengthen life-
span by 10 years.
Put this in perspective...consider that cigarette smoking has
been shown to reduce life expectancy by 5.5 years for males
and 7 years for females. So, negative emotions may cut more
years off of life expectancy than smoking.
31. Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries,
but instead may be critical necessities for
optimal functioning.
Positive emotions:
➔ Protect us from and can undo the effects of negative emotions
➔ Fuel resilience and can transform people
➔ Broaden our thinking, encouraging us to discover new lines of thought or action
➔ Break down racial barriers
➔ Produce optimal functioning in organizations and individuals
➔ Build durable physical, intellectual, social, and psychological resources that can
function as “reserves” during trying times
➔ Improve the overall performance of a group
32. The magic ratio:
5 positive
interactions for
every
1 negative
interaction
Marriage study:
94% accuracy of
predicting divorce
based on using this
ratio alone to score a
couples’ interactions
for 15 minutes.
33. Workgroups with
positive to negative
interaction ratios
greater than 3 to 1
are significantly
more productive
than teams that do
not reach this ratio.
34. Productivity must be grounded in
reality.
Too much positive
emotion?
More than 13
positive interactions
for every 1 negative
interaction could
decrease
productivity
36. 5 strategies for increasing positive emotions
1. Prevent Bucket dipping(Consequences Activity)
a. Ask yourself…am I adding to or taking from the bucket?
2. Shine a light on what is right (Positive Impact Test)
a. Do you concentrate on success or failure (strengths or weaknesses)?
Atonement Bucket Challenge 2015
37. Atonement Bucket Challenge 2015
3. Make BFF’s :o)
a. Friends help add to and build up your bucket.
4. Give unexpectedly
a. Small unexpected bucket fillers can have a huge impact.
5. Reverse the Golden Rule
a. (Instead of “Do unto others as you would have done to you”, apply “Do
unto others as they would have you do unto them”). Find out what they
prefer.
b. Put the needs of others before yours…take care of their bucket, and they
will take care of yours.
38. What fills your bucket?
Gallup Recognition Interview
● Please fill out and return before you leave today
● We will share this info on a google doc so you
know how to fill your teammates buckets!
“When teachers were asked, “What is it that makes you so outstanding?” they readily remarked that they had an administrator who encouraged and supported them, trusted their professionalism, and made them feel like a significant member of a very important team.” – Neila A. Connors
You are all a part of a VERY important team! We want this to be the best place for you to work. We value you your hard work, dedication, and a lot times sacrifice. We are committed to your wellbeing and happiness. We look for different ways to improve our culture for the benefit of you and the kiddos we serve. You are our most important resources and without you our school CAN NOT function which means 300+ kiddos would not be getting the awesome Christ-centered education that you all provide.
People have to understand how what they do contributes to the wellbeing of mankind. -- Blanchard and Bowles
Feedback we have received is that there has been negativity zapping energy and harming our culture. We have a challenge for you...but lets learn a little more about what this negativity and inversely on the flip side, what positivity can do! Are you ready????
So to truly understand how powerful positivity is, let’s first understand how devastating negativity can be (even in small amounts).
Remember, we only have one bucket and it’s only so big!
Intentional take-aways see my book notes
If people can literally be destroyed by unrelenting negative reinforcement, can they be uplifted and inspired to a greater degree by similar levels of positive reinforcement?
Play Kid President -- 20 Things we should say more
Most of us will never endure what the POW’s suffered during the Korean war. Yet we all experience positive and negative interactions every day that influence how we feel and behave.
“It’s true that most of our negative experiences will not kill us, yet they can slowly but surely erode our well-being and productivity.”
Fortunately, positive experiences or “bucket filling” can be even more powerful.
Great recognition and praise can immediately transform a team. And just one person can infuse positive emotions into an entire group by filling buckets more frequently.
Categorize ways or places that appreciation comes from.
Dump a bucket??
How do you schedule the
We usually don’t stop to consider the impact of brief interactions.
We experience literally hundreds of potential turning points in a given day.
Tammy’s story (p. 31-33)
Tammy’s bucket was quickly filled. Did Karen know the positive impact that her simple comment made? She didn’t have any idea what Tammy had dealt with up and to that point.
A moment is a few seconds in which our brain records our experience.
The quality of our days are determined by how our brains recognize and categorize our moments, as positive or negative. There are rarely ever neutral encounters.
Our mood is created based on the number of positive versus negative moments we experience during our day.
