Leaders, in the non-traditional sense of the word, are people who help you set yourself up to achieve small victories. Leaders don't have to be bosses. Leaders can be co-workers or customers (who may have to sometimes irritate you before you can actually see what they see) or friends - but usually not family. I only mention that because most family think the rest of the family are dumber than they are. Anyway, another discussion another time.
Losers (my opposite word to leaders) are the kind of people who wait for that moment when they find you doing something wrong and then pounce on you and use your mistakes as leverage. They somehow believe that by tearing you down, they magically elevate themselves in the process. Maybe you work for or with someone like that or maybe you're married to one. Again, another discussion another time.
But my point here is this: which one are you?
If you want to build a better workplace, you need to thoroughly study what you communicate and how you communicate with others.
It takes a good, hard look in the mirror sometimes before we figure out that we are sometimes being the kinds of people we hate being around.
Do you try to catch people doing something wrong? Do you help people do something right? Or worse yet, do you just put your head down and do nothing at all?
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Kevin Burns - Workplace Expert and Speaker
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