It requires the positive efforts of many individuals in leadership positions, building good feelings over a period of time. One leadership skill that can help to build these positive feelings within your leadership group is encouragement. Once you start to pass on your belief that a person's abilities are worthy of your notice, people will start to work harder and be positive about what they are doing. The other great aspect of encouragement is that it is infectious. Those people who have been encouraged by you will start to encourage others.
Athletes know how much easier it is to play a game on the home court.
This advantage that everyone talks about comes from the supportive people in the stands and in the hallways before the game. It has a way of lowering the net or widening the opponent's goal. When you encourage the people who work with you, you are establishing the home court advantage within your group. Often we can encourage people in non-verbal ways as well as verbal ones. By gestures, smiles, positive words, or just by attending the activities, we become leaders while encouraging and supporting others to become leaders too.