Leaders are Encouragers

As leaders our job is to move people to accomplish a common goal.  We are always watching and monitoring accomplishments, milestones and deadlines.  One way to do that is to nag your team about where they stand on the path to the goal.  Another way is to encourage them along the way.  Think about which way you prefer to be led.  In which circumstance are you more likely to thrive and grow?  I prefer to be encouraged, and I want to encourage others.  Encouragement can inspire, it strengthens people and spurs them to accomplishment.  Nagging on the other hand feels like berating and can be annoying and irritating.  People do not reach goals quickly when they feel annoyed and irritated.  And more importantly they do not grow.  Great leaders are encouragers.  By the way so are great parents!  Are you an encourager?

“People have a way of becoming what you encourage
to them to be, not what you nag them to be.”
                                                               --Scudder N. Parker