Why You Should Cultivate Everyday Courage At Work

‘When you help workers to become more courageous, you stretch their capabilities, boost their performance, and help them to encounter their better selves.’- Bill Treasurer

‘Workers have the highest regard for managers who do the same uncomfortable things they are asking the workers to do, but who do them first.’- Bill Treasurer

‘The safer people feel, the more risks they are likely to take. People extented themselves when the consequences for doing so are forgiving.’- Bill Treasurer

‘You can’t be critical and encouraging at the same time. Paying too much attention to ‘all the things that can go wrong’ draws focus away from all the things you need to get right.’- Bill Treasurer

‘People seek out situations that cause pleasure and avoid those that don’t. The stronger a person’s protective frame, the more likely he or she is to experience a challenging situation as pleasurable.’- Bill Treasurer

‘Your job as a manager is to provide workers with skill-stretching assignments that have a higher degree of difficulty than their current skill sets.’- Bill Treasurer

‘You have two jobs: leave the company better off than you found it, and leave people better off than you found them. You get the former through the latter.’- Bill Treasurer

‘All forms of courage involves taking risks. Risk taking is the application of courage, or courage in action.’- Bill Treasurer

‘Courage precedes success. You can fail and still be courageous. Courage is about facing fear and discomfort, not successful outcomes. However, you’ll be more likely to have a successful outcome if you’re behaving with courage.’- Bill Treasurer

‘Remember, workers give their companies only as much trust as their companies give them.’- Bill Treasurer

‘We are more apt to trust people when we know their hopes, dreams, values, and fears. And they are more apt to trust us when we shame those things in kind.’- Bill Treasurer

‘Avoiding interpersonal confrontation is a bigger inhibitor to team performance than misaligned goals, lack of planning, or misguided leadership.’- Bill Treasurer

‘Courageous conversations are designed to help teams confront and address- in a sober and adult way- issues that are getting in the way of superior performance.’- Bill Treasurer

‘Truth has depth that, once told, results in a spiritual silence that can be filled with both sadness and gratitude.’- Bill Treasurer

‘Your success as a manager will be determined by how well you manage workers who are too comfortable, too afraid, or too much of both.’- Bill Treasurer