It’s not surprising that people benefit significantly from positive feedback about their strengths and contributions - both inside and outside of the workplace. This kind fo feedback fosters healthy emotions, builds personal agency and resourcefulness, and helps to bolster the quality of our relationships with colleagues, friends and family members. Sharing information about our reflected best selves with new colleagues as a part of onboarding processes, for example,  increases job satisfaction and reduces employee turnover. So why aren’t we doing more of this? Dale Carnegie and John Maxwell liken the process of developing people to mining for gold: you must move tons of dirt in the process, but you go in looking for the gold, not the dirt. Read on to learn about how to do this more deliberately in the workplace to increase productivity and feelings of engagement…