CHAPTER 6
Courage
Courage is the emotion that allows us to act on what matters to us, in the presence of danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain, accepting that there will be consequences without necessarily knowing what those will be but acting anyway, without being stopped by fear or being sidetracked from our chosen course of action.
In this chapter we will consider courage as a fundamental ingredient in the many different kinds of change processes your clients undertake. It is a critical key to sustaining motivation, and this makes your ability to help them develop courage of the utmost importance. Personal growth, reorganizing a team, developing a new product, and merging organizations are all normal processes in the workplace, and ...
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