LEARN TO SEE THE GOOD IN PEOPLE

Every human is capable of the worst as much as we are capable doing what is good. This is true irrespective of whom you are at the moment, you will never know how good or bad you can be until you are confronted with the circumstances that will draw out that side of your personality.  The circumstances surrounding your upbringing play a part in shaping your character and personality and, as you grow old you have the ability to adopt what feels right for you and helps you fit in your environment. Who you are is an important element in helping or hindering your progress in life.

If you are uncomfortable been who you are, you will find it very difficult becoming your best. Conversely if you are comfortable within yourself and happy with whom you are, it is going to be easier for you to navigate and overcome the inevitable obstacles in your life. You can learn with the power of communication to draw the best in anyone. If you make it a habit of seeing and mostly focusing on the good in people, you will find easy to appeal to their good nature. People will always respond to you depending on how you communicate with them.

You have probably heard of some of the worst people you could imagine, acting against what most would consider usual behaviour. You have also heard about some of the nicest people you know, acting out of character in a moment of madness. If you want to consistently get the best of those around, the first thing to do is to get in the habit of praising them what they have done well before helping them improve on what they are not doing so well. When you praise someone for a job well done, you put them in a more receptive mood to accept criticism.

The manager of a big corporation was struggling with a particular department in the company, after trying almost everything to increase productivity he decided to consult with the rest of the management team to find out what else could be done. Looking at the possible solutions, they realised that they have already tried everything they could think of including the threat of sacking underperforming employees. As the manager was thinking at home about a miracle solution, he realised that there was one think he had not done so far and that was acknowledge the contribution of that team in the company performance.

He got up and began to design a strategy to convey that message to the underperforming team the following day. He got to work that day at least an hour before his employees and with the help of an employee, he posted a message thanking that team for their hard work and told them that it was a pleasure working with a team of such dedicated employees. He also told them that he was not worried about the dip in performance because he knew a team of such talented people will quickly rise to the challenge and raise their productivity. Just two weeks after that heartfelt message from their manager, the troublesome team surged ahead and became the best performing team in the company.

Learning to see the good in others will work with anyone irrespective of their age, if you want your child to be on his or her best behaviour begin by praising the child and tell him or her how proud you are of their behaviour. The idea is to make the person feel good about himself by telling him how well behaved he is and how better he could be if he keep acting the best way possible. If you make it a habit of always seeing the good in people, you will consistently and invariably draw the best out of people by using the power of communication.

CHRISTIAN