To Build on the Best in your business, realize that positive leadership is not just about being nice.
Powerful positive feedback does not just make people feel good, but just as important, it teaches them their strengths. Since we have an appreciation-starved culture, few of us have a clue about our strengths, and we can only learn that from each other with highly skilled specific positive feedback. The less we know our strengths, the less we use them, and then the less successful we are. The Leader's job is to teach people their strengths!
Remember:
The deepest craving in human nature is to be appreciated.” William James
FebruaryYou know to tell your loved ones that you love them. This year, add something special to make your “I love you” even more powerful: Tell them specifically one thing you deeply appreciate about them. And this specific appreciation you can also give to your esteemed colleagues and clients, to help teach them their strengths. And while you are at it, what are your strengths? How many can you write down? Do this, and appreciate yourself out loud for each one. A positive caring challenge!
Wishing you the best of success!
Dr. Linne Bourget
From the positive leadership book, What You Say Is What You Get™: The Secret Language of Great Business Results, by Dr. Linne Bourget, endorsed by Mark Victor Hansen Co-creator, #1 New York Times best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul® and Co-author, The One Minute Millionaire and Dr. Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California, author/co-author of 27 leadership books, including On Becoming a Leader, Organizing Genius and Geeks and Geezers, consultant to four U.S. Presidents, the United Nations and Fortune 500 CEOs.
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Dr. Linne Bourget, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.
