Praise Matters & We Survived

Do you need praise at work? Dangerous Dave talks about how AI praise could be important in todays work landscape. Plus, things  we survived that young people would probably not.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deuber in the den with dangerous day. Well.
In emerging age of artificial intelligence, a lot of workers
have a simple request. They just want to be told
everything's going to be okay. They need reassurance, and not
from Susan n HR. It has to come from Susan
bought five thousand. In a new survey, eighty three percent

(00:20):
of US employees say praise is the most important in
the age of AI. It sounds like proof that human
connection remains essential, But then again, maybe not. Nearly sixty
percent of employees a AI tailored recognition such as personalized
praise alerts are just as meaningful as recognition from a
human manager, and seventy five percent said they're more likely

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to stay at a company where AI and humans work
together on recognition and engagement. On one hand, it seems
strange and automation is replacing human workers and remaining workers
want to be told they're valued, but they want to
be told they're valued by AI. Maybe these workers need
an extra jolt out of having artificial intelligence telling them
that their human intelligence is valued and irreplaceable. At least

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for now, I'd tell you're you doing better, but I'll
wait for AI to do that in the well. Somebody
on TikTok ask people age thirty and up to name
something that kids today would not be able to tolerate,
something that would emotionally destroy kids today. In other words,
things that we dealt with that kids today wouldn't be
able to. Some of the best dancers include dodgeball and

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gym class that goes without saying before computers, having to
write multiple drafts by hand. Yes, I remember that NonStop
bullying was normal and even tolerated. Yeah, we were just
told ignore it, having the babysit, infants and small children,
and you were only twelve. I think it was about
twelve when I started. Yeah, being bored. Kids today don't
really know what boredom means. Going all day at school

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without a water bottle. Yeah, but we had that greasy
little water fountain down at the end of the hall,
slow dial up internet, about no internet, dealing with not
knowing something, being trapped in a car with both parents,
cigarette smoking. Yeah, yeah, that's how I grew up. Nothing
was on demand, so there was unavoidable full molt, which
is fear of missing out. Parents listening on landlines. Oh yeah,

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parents were sneaky and I'd call my girlfriend. They would
pick up and listen. Calling your friend's house, of course
their parents would answer first, no caller, ID blowing into
your video game to make them work. Other things that
we survived that would emotionally destroy kids today. Getting a
summer job ordering stuff from catalogs. I loved getting catalogs,
looking at them. It was like going shopping right at

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your own house instead of texting. You'd pass notes in class,
taking tests, stressing over whether you'd get fined two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars by the FBI for copying a
VHS tape. How about stressing over pirrating MP Three's not
that I ever did that, And no autos save back
in the day. You know, things have changed, and even

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people in our business now don't know what we went
through back in the day, having to fire every element,
every commercial everything. Computers didn't do it for you, or
even editing commercials on a reel to reel and having
to splice tape. I got pretty good at that at
one time, so nobody had to do that or Probably
my favorite advancement in radio is the fact that it

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can run two songs together. I don't have to wait
for the reck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to come up
in order to go to the bathroom. Tu it again
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