A positive attitude in the workplace can help you whether you own your own business, work as an employee, or manage others within a business environment. You’ll enjoy your work more and achieve your workplace or business related goals more easily and faster.

Weiss (2002) has argued that job satisfaction is an attitude but points out that researchers should clearly distinguish the objects of cognitive evaluation which are affect (emotion), beliefs and behaviours. This definition suggests that we form attitudes towards our jobs by taking into account our feelings, our beliefs, and our behaviors.

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit

Here’s a picture of a work environment with a negative attitude:

• Meetings in which most of the discussion is on what is going wrong rather than about ideas on how to solve the problem.

• General conversations occur around the workplace almost daily in which people complain to each other about how this, that, or the entire company is doomed to fail. Or about how much they “hate working here.”

• Employees backstab each other in attempts to “get ahead” in the company.

• People leave their workplace at the end of the day feeling drained and lifeless from all the negative energy.

• Customers receive poor service due to the negativity of the company representatives. These customers do not become repeat customers or refer new customers.

If you’ve ever worked in an environment like this, you know how easy it is to get sucked into the negativity. One can even go to work feeling upbeat and positive but was quickly sucked down by the negative attitudes surrounding them.

Attitudes are contagious!

A positive attitude in the workplace can make a big difference...

It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier

10 Wins from this ATTITUDE transformational training

1. Improve customer relations and improve sales: Customers would rather deal with someone positive. Research has also shown that sales professionals who think positively and believe in the benefits of their product have much better sales performance.

2. Career success is easier & enjoyable: Who is more likely to get promoted? Those who think positively and get results, or those who constantly complain and say something isn’t their job?

3. Stress reduction: You feel stressed when you see events or situations as stressful. Change your perception to something more positive and the stressful feelings will go away. Instead of problems, see issues as challenges, for example, from which you and your company can ultimately benefit. Move into asking yourself how you can make something better or more enjoyable

. 4. Less sick days and better productivity: This is a side benefit of stress reduction. Stress can have a serious negative impact on your health. If you can reduce your stress, or the stress of everyone in your organization you'll enjoy better health, less sick days, and better productivity.

5. Become a better leader: If you own a company or if you manage people, those who report to you usually get more from watching you than they do listening to what you’re saying. Take a positive attitude approach to achieving those goals and to overcoming challenges. Your attitude and enthusiasm will spread throughout your workplace.

6. Improve the attitude of other employees or those who report to you: Refuse to participate in negative conversations. When you’re in a meeting or when you encounter a challenge, instead of dwelling on who’s fault it is or on the challenge itself, steer the conversation to focus on how the issue can be overcome.

7. Improve teamwork: Teams are much more effective when the members are united in overcoming challenges and figuring out how they can achieve their objectives rather than dwelling on all the problems and obstacles that stand in their way.
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. ~Abraham Lincoln

8. You have more inspiration and you rely less on others to help motivate you: If you have a positive attitude about achieving goals and success in general, you will be much more motivated to take action.

9. Improve decision-making and overcome challenges: See challenges as opportunities to grow and become better. When you’re making a business decision, you can use this same approach and your options will really open up.

10. Improve Interpersonal Relations: People like positive people. They’re automatically drawn to a pleasant and upbeat demeanor. Your business and personal relationships will definitely improve when you employ a positive attitude.

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