How To Be A Leader:
A leader's job often includes changing your people's attitudes and behaviour. Some suggestions to accomplish this;
1) Begin with praise and honest appreciation
2) Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly
3) Talk about your own mistakes before criticising the other person
4) Ask questions instead of giving direct orders
5) Let the other person save face
6) Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be "hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise"
7) Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to
8) Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct
9) Make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest
As I said in first post on this book, all of these should be "no brainers", why then do we all find them so hard to follow? Why do we find it easier to knock down others and build up ourselves, rather than seeing things from the other person's point of view. No easy way of changing our own attitudes, but we need to keep asking God to make us more like Him. He is the only one who can help us follow these principles on consistent basis.
All very good reminders Martin. Perhaps I should add it to my reading list.
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