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Why You Should Get Your Teams Gifts

November 28, 2019July 2, 2020

https://snarkyinthesuburbs.com/2016/11/14/dear-snarky-kill-me-now-because-my-office-has-12-days-of-secret-santa/

One Christmas, a boss gifted us a book on mindful leadership.

ā€œOk, so you are a mindful jerk.ā€ Someone quipped.Ā 
ā€œI want to reciprocate with ā€˜The Five Dysfunctions of a Team’ book.ā€ Joked another.

Another time we received cans of artisanal Baltic sardines. Greg the vegan tweeted, ā€œIt’s not personal. It’s not personal.šŸ’†šŸ»ā€

And those one size only hoodies, branded mugs from the company (budget), still sit in my closet. (It’s rude to re-gift ā€œBreath to Win #TeamMINDFULā€ polos)

Gifting is hard, especially at work. But it’s the thought that counts, isn’t it?

Gifting can be narcissistic when it is a mass-AirDrop of virtue signals: My kind of book, reishi coffee, documentary, etc. Similarly, gifting at work can become jabs of performance reviews:

ā€œDave,Ā 
Great Bookā€Šā€”ā€Šā€˜Mindsetā€Šā€”ā€ŠChanging the way you think’.Ā 
H.H.,Ā 
Your Friendā€

In essence, gifting is committing to the ā€œimaginative journey to put oneself in the mind and the anticipation of anotherā€. Kick-ass gifts are delightful, witty, and, yes, loving. Yet gifting is mentally torturing and risky to your reputation. Therefore gifting can become the work to hone empathy and courage.

The thought counts because of ā€œthe imagination behind the thought, and the effort in making this imagination tangible.ā€

*Quotes from David Whyte

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