Someone's it's good just to butter someone up with an obvious but true bit of praise. It makes them feel better about themselves and they also like you more as

Someone's it's good just to butter someone up with an obvious but true bit of praise. It makes them feel better about themselves and they also like you more as a person because you said something nice. For example, if I told my coworker in a meeting that I was impressed by how smooth her deployment went that morning, even though we both know it wasn't hard to get it right because there wasn't much new, it still makes her feel better about her role at the company and how professional she is, clearly motivational, and maybe later she is more inclined to help me out when I've hit a wall on my project, which makes us both more efficient. It also helps her to know I'm not a jerk, so later if I give her criticism she knows I'm trying to help her because I'm not always just the guy who criticizes, I also say positive remarks. Clearly it has to be genuine praise, but I'm sure everyone can find one thing to praise in any PR.