Show some praise when someone in your team is doing good. It will show them what exactly they did well and believe me, quite often people are unaware of that, unless someone tells them so. You’ll also make them feel good, what is important and usually undervalued. Generalizing a bit someone who feels well about his job and about his boss will just work better.
I don’t say to fake reasons for some praise, but I don’t agree that you should limit appreciation as well as criticism either. All I say is boss, or leader, should be aware of situations allowing him to show a bit of praise. Especially because we come much easier with criticism and it’s usually the more visible side of our feedback.
After all, when most of your ideas was ruled out or changed during the meeting it doesn’t mean that you and the meeting were prepared poorly. What more, I’d usually consider the meeting as successful, because of all discussion which happened and lessons we learned. It doesn’t mean, however, that you share my point of view. Unless I tell you so.
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