Acknowledgement
Declaring the possibility you see in someone, and, by declaring it, making it real.
Acknowledgement is often confused with praise. Praise looks backward at what someone did. Acknowledgement looks forward and names a possibility you see in them that they may not yet see in themselves.
It is a quietly generative act. By declaring a possibility for another person, with care and grounding, you help bring it into being. Leaders who can do this change the trajectory of the people around them.
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