Encouragement to Grow and Succeed

This post originally appeared at petechristianbooks.com

Everybody needs encouragement to grow and succeed .

At our earliest age, we are get that from our family and friends to walk, talk, and try to do other things. We are helped along the way and because of this we learn and advance.

Then, at some point in our lives that stops. It happens at different times to different people. It seems to manifest and take hold when we enter the workplace. Too often the attitude seems to be, “Just do your job and let me worry about improvements”. Or “If I need your opinion I’ll ask for it”.

This lack of encouragement to think, offer thoughts and make improvements beats us down.

I had one of those experiences myself. In my first job out of college, I had a manager who didn’t encourage ideas and activities to make things better. He wanted to control the show and dictate what and how things were done. He did not provide encouagement to grow and succeed.

I worked in a group with veteran employees. There were also many young (including myself), energetic individuals. We all wanted to try new ideas. We were we discouraged from doing so. This is not what successful companies practicing Agility do with their employees.