The Complete 101 Collection: What Every Leader Needs to Know

Donald Laird said, “Always help people increase their own self-esteem. Develop your skill in making other people feel important. There is hardly a higher compliment you can pay an individual than helping him be useful and to find satisfaction from his usefulness.” When a person doesn’t feel good about himself, he will never believe he is successful

People will follow you only when they believe in you.

Once responsibility and authority have been given to people, they are empowered to make things happen. But we also have to be sure they are making the right things happen. That’s where accountability comes into the picture.

Encouraging benefits everyone. Who wouldn’t be more secure and motivated when his leader believes in him, encourages him, shares with him, and trusts him?

The ability to find another’s seed of success takes commitment, diligence, and a genuine desire to focus on others. You have to look at the person’s gifts, temperament, passions, successes, joys, and opportunities. And once you find that seed, you need to fertilize it with encouragement and water it with opportunity. If you do, the person will blos

Mentoring leaders get more out of their people because they think more of their people.

B elieve in them. E ncourage them. S hare with them. T rust them.

Everyone can find excuses for not giving to those around them. Great leaders know the difficulties and encourage their people anyway.

When a mentoring leader is dedicated to the equipping process, the whole level of performance within the organization rises dramatically.