• Each employee in an area, department, or workgroup is assigned or selects 2-5 people to compliment, (make sure compliments are evenly spread around). Employees write each compliment on a separate strip of colorful paper.
• After reading their compliments out loud, all of the paper strips are connected together, creating a paper chain.
  Where it is applicable these area/department/workgroup chains could be linked together (maybe with compliments by upper management) in a very long chain.
  
• If the chain is quiet long, this can be a great public relations story. Take a picture and write a short story or caption about your National Compliment Day activities. Include the number of compliments making up the chain and its length. Send them ASAP to your local newspaper or make arrangements for the paper to cover the story prior to National Compliment Day.

Compliment bulletin board

• If you don't want to make a chain, collect those same slips of paper and put them on a bulletin board for everyone to see.
  Compliment cards
• Does your organization work with the public? What about asking customers and clients to highlight the good in people. Use a greeter to ask customers to fill out a card for the most helpful employee of the day. Make it simple with just the employee's name and how they were helpful. Or friendliest. Maybe list several categories your customers can choose from.
  
• How about sending out a survey to your vendors asking the same thing.
  
• By using Compliment Day as a vehicle you can ask your customers, clients and/or vendors to look for the best in your company. They will always tell you about the worst.

Notes from the boss

• In many places employees only hear when things go wrong. Consider these questions about your current employees and then sit down and write each one a note. What does she/he add to your organization?
• How has she/he improved lately?
• Why are you glad she/he is an employee?
• What would you miss if she/he were to leave?
• Make sure to Include examples

Compliment collections

• Hand out a piece of paper listing all the employees in a area/department/work group with room under each to write a compliment.
• One person then complies the compliments for each person and prints them out on nice paper.
  
• In one law office these compliments collections were such a hit, they stayed up the whole year. Come January, everyone was asking when they were going to do it again.

The benefits of Compliment Day activities

• Helps people to focus on the positive
  
• Builds a higher level of trust
  
• Raises awareness of the constructive and multifaceted qualities of coworkers
  
• Builds a sense of community
  
• Models, encourages, and rewards kindness
  
• Everyone feels great

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