To Inspire People Believe in Them
Leaders, listen up, it’s time to stop telling and start empowering!
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” Goethe.
Ever had someone who truly believes in you? It’s quite something, isn’t it? My father believed in me. Always. He may not have agreed with all my decisions and he certainly didn’t agree with me when I would give up on something, but he always made me feel that he believed in me 100%.
The effect of this was that all I ever wanted to do my whole life was to make him proud. He died in 2014 and I still live my life wanting to make him proud.
That is what believing in someone does for them. I never had a boss or an employer who I felt truly believed in me which probably explains why I have been self-employed for the last twenty years. I learned quickly that if they weren’t going to believe in me then I would do it for myself and not them.
There is a counselling concept called Motivational Interviewing that was developed by clinical psychologists William Miller and Stephen…
