#101 – Celebrating Bright Spots in Leadership | 52 Life Lessons – Lesson 20

When was the last time you caught someone doing something exceptionally well, and actually said something? In episode 20 of the 52 Life Lessons series, host Tim Borys explains why leaders are trained problem detectors, what that habit quietly costs their teams, and the simple three-step framework, See it, Say it, Scale it, that turns recognition into a performance system instead of a perk.

In this episode:

• Why negativity bias makes leaders excellent at spotting problems and poor at naming what's working
• The difference between coaches who build you up and coaches who only correct you
• Tim's candid story of the leadership mistake that cost him excellent people
• Why "it's just their job" misses a basic human need for competence, meaning, and progress
• The research: a 17 percent performance improvement from structured reinforcement, and the finding that feedback backfires in more than a third of cases
• The positive deviance story from rural Vietnam and what it means for finding the bright spots already inside your organization
• How to give specific recognition in ten seconds, and the 24-hour challenge for every leader

Think well. Live well. Be well.

Have a topic or guest you'd like to hear on the show? Reach out to Tim at timborys.com.

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