Marc Haine and Paul Leon discuss why leaders should give frequent positive reinforcement instead of focusing on punishment. They argue that understanding where your team's energy goes and what stresses them matters more than the words you use, as long as you're offering abundant acknowledgment.
And number one was praise over punishment. Like if I had done anything wrong, I would be punished severely.
Well, what's interesting as well is it's not even necessarily praise as it is acknowledgments. Right. Right? Being able to recognize and acknowledge where people's energies are at, or even acknowledging what their stressors might be is an important component I believe, of leadership.
It's a good callout. And it could be semantics too, you know, whether it's acknowledgment or praise. But I feel it needs to be, whether you're using the definition of acknowledgment, you're using the definition of praise, it needs to be an overabundance of those atta boys.
