In this episode, we're going to talk about how do you stop losing your best team members.

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Now, in the last episode, we talked about the most underused leadership habit, the gift of

affirmation. We're going to take it deeper today. If you

haven't listened to the last episode, grab it first. And then today we're going to talk about

how to retain your team with better affirmation. The problem is most leaders, if they do

encourage and affirm other people, they usually do it in one direction.

The leader tends to affirm and encourage the people that report directly to the leader.

They affirm down. A good leader initially and intentionally encourages his or her direct

reports, and this matters so much, but I want to tell you right now

in leadership, it is not enough. Today, we're going to talk about the three directions every

leader needs to affirm. How are we going to affirm? We're going to firm up, we're going to affirm

down, and we're going to affirm inward. Up, down, and inward.

Let's start with the first one, which is the most obvious and important. Then we'll dive into the

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