What If Potential Follows Encouragement?
What if encouragement doesn’t simply follow evidence of potential? What if, sometimes, evidence of potential follows encouragement? Drawing connections between research on teacher expectations and leader-member relationships, I’m thinking through how the patience, trust, challenge, attention, and opportunities we give people may help shape the potential we later believe we simply recognized.
Leadership That Leaves: What I Saw in Coach Ross
He did not just hand out rings. He told a story about each boy.
What I was hearing was not just hype. I was hearing a leader narrate belonging in public.
The trophy and rings marked the win. What mattered most was everything that made them possible.
