It’s Ok To Lead With Encouragement
You can lead with encouragement, even if you want behaviors to change.
An editor’s job is to edit the writer’s words that they are working with to make them better. To tell you when you’re lacking, when something doesn’t quite land right, and to tell you when you’ve done a good job.
When a piece goes live on Medium, each writer gets a notification. And sometimes, there’s a one-line comment from the editor that looked over the piece. Other times, the comments and notes are a little more complex. Lately, I’ve been paying more attention to the words that the editors are bestowing upon me because they are unbelievably kind. They are something of praise. They are an acknowledgment of how hard I am working — and it makes me want to work harder.
Leadership is multifaceted. It’s hard to be the boss, to be the leader, to be the person who calls the shots.
Oftentimes it involves making the tough decisions that others may shy away from. Oftentimes it involves saying the things that must be said, but things that people do not want to hear — for a leader must always be truthful.
Leadership and truth are strands of the same braid — you cannot have one without the other. But the other strand…
