Episode #090 Are you part of the 98% of people who love encouragement? This is for you, because this whole week is all about encouragement, and learning how to encourage people. We also talk about the seven essentials to encouraging the heart--setting clear standards, expecting the best, paying attention, personalizing recognition, storytelling, doing what you say you will do, and of course--celebrating!

• No One Wants to be an Afterthought
• 10 Ways to Encourage Others
• Here's What the Word Encourage Actually Means
• Kouzes and Posner profile
• Past episode on New Research on Listening That Will Blow You Away
• Past episode on Your Connections Determine Your Impact
• HBR Article on What Great Listeners Actually Do
• The BEST Way to Get to Know Interesting People
• TWO Powerful Words
• Lead by example…or not at all
• 7 Ways to Lead by Example
• Podcast episode: Street Cred
• The Secret Google Unveiled About Teambuilding