Compliments; We all love to receive them but do we know how to give them? Giving compliments is vital in helping you to establish good relations with another person. Of course, we don't want the compliments to sound too forced or facetious. So how can we give compliments and sound sincere at the same time? Here is a method that you can try out.

Do it behind their back!

For example, you want to get into the good books of your boss, Charlotte, at work. However, you do not want to risk complimenting her face to face and sounding insincere. What you could do is to compliment her behind her back. You could tell her good friend Stephanie about how great working for Charlotte is. There's a high chance that Stephanie would pass this compliment on to Charlotte.

The good thing about this is that it would sound much more credible when Stephanie tells Charlotte "hey Charlotte, Warren said that working for you is a great experience" as opposed to if you were to compliment Charlotte face to face. Remember, a compliment one hears is not as exciting as the compliment one overhears.

You need not just tell Charlotte's good friends. You could spread the compliment to as many of your fellow workers as possible (the idea is to spread it to as many people as possible) but do not keep on harping on this compliment and keep repeating it. You'll sound very insincere this way. When you spread the compliment to more people, the chances of it reaching Charlotte becomes even higher.

Essentially, telling a compliment behind the person's back to other people helps you escape possible suspicion of being a boot-licker trying to use compliments for your own personal gain. You also help make the recipient of the compliment even happy that you are telling the world about how great they are, thus helping you to score some major popularity points.