Corporate Gifts and The Five Love Languages

One of my favorite personal development books is the Five Love Languages. In this book we learn that there are basic five ways that can perceive that they are loved or show love. These are: Acts of service, quality time, gifts, touch and words of affirmation. It is said that you need to find out what the love language is of the person with whom you have a relationship is. The relationship can be professional, platonic, paternal etc. People all perceive their interactions with people based on their own outlook in life. So for example, if the person’s primary love language is words of affirmation, which means that they have to receive a lot of positive feedback. If you are a person who noticed imperfections a lot, then you would really need to be self disciplined when dealing with people who need a lot of positive affirmation, as they easily become demotivated without positive input. While touch is inappropriate in a professional and corporate setting, touch can be used to display caring for friendships, your children and spouses. Yet, you can use touch in a clever manner in your corporate gift selection. For example if you are giving one our hampers with a spa voucher, the recipient can get a massage, which allows you to in a corporate touch in a safe method through a corporate gift and without you doing the touching. Of course the love language that we work with the most is gifts. Gifts remain a safe way of showing appreciate for people, whether they are customers, friends, parents or children. In the corporate setting corporate gifts can be used in a variety of ways. At the beginning of the year you can use corporate gifts to set the tone for the start of the year. Most people are not overly enthusiastic about having to go back to work at the beginning of the year, so they would welcome a corporate gift to start the year off on a positive note. During the year there are several occasions for using corporate gifts. Valentines Day gifts make terrific corporate gifts, as fall in line with love language gifts. During the year you can use client’s birthdays as opportunities to give out corporate gifts. Spreading corporate gift spend throughout the year makes sense as then your gifts stand out from the standard end of the year corporate gifts. Should you want to find out more about corporate gifts, visit us on www.belleregalo.co.za or e-mail us on info@belleregalo.co.za