Encouragement helps to build self-esteem, self motivation and cooperation with others.
- Focused on process
- Internal evaluation
- Increases competency
- Person feel accepted as is
- Growth focused
- Not dependent on outcomes
- Points out specifics without adding evaluation
Three Pillars of Encouragement
- Specific steps taken
- Accomplishments towards a goal
- Recognizing special abilities
- Pointing out usefulness of ideas
- Seeing new ways of showing up
- Stepping into new parts of themselves
- Where, when, how does new way of being surface
- New Possibilities
- Genesis of ideas that seemed out of reach or too large to step into
So, what does this look like?
Noticing – The accomplishments, ideas, attributes, differences between actions and person
Supporting – Embracing fear and failure, expressing confidence, appreciation, interest, finding similarities
Questioning – Asking, Deeper Meanings, Feedback,
What’s possible in your world if we gave a little more Encouragement?
Source: Nicoletta Pichardo, The Performance Coach