Positive character trait
Supportive
Providing encouragement, understanding, or practical help.
4 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Encourages someone through a hard patch with words and practical help.
- Backs a colleague's idea in a meeting when it deserves backing.
- Asks what would help, then does it.
Fits when someone gives encouragement and practical help to people who need it
Not when support means agreeing with everything, including a choice that will cause harm
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.
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Resume line Mentored [number] [new staff or students], [number] of whom [were promoted, passed or stayed on] within [period].
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Reference or recommendation [Name] is supportive of the people around them: when [a colleague was new or struggling], they [helped with what specifically], and that person is now [result].
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Report card comment [Name] is supportive of classmates and helps them when they are stuck, explaining patiently.
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In a story, shown not told She did not tell him it would be fine. She drove him to the hospital every Tuesday for three months and waited in the car park with a book.
Her supportive manager moved the deadline when her father was in hospital.
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