Attitudes in the Workplace

Considering the challenges we are facing these days, this is a good quote to remember:

"Things work out best for those who make the best out of the way things work out". (Author Unknown)

Attitudes in the Workplace

"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them." Elbert Hubbard

Attitudes in the Workplace

If, on the other hand, you consistently, and I mean consistently, encourage and affirm that employee-(in other words, find the good in that individual)-you might be pleasantly surprised by the results. You might catch him "off guard". He is so used to negative responses from others to his negative behavior, that when you don't match his bad behavior, it gets his attention.

Attitudes in the Workplace

Can you change an employee's bad attitude? Sometimes you can.....by changing YOUR attitude when you are around that employee. Have you ever thought about it in that way? If you have "given up" on an employee because of his negative behavior and you think he is going to be negative no matter what you do, you will be proven right.

If, on the other hand.....

Attitudes in the Workplace

What is an attitude anyway? Can you change/improve an employee's attitude? Should you hire primarily for attitude or aptitude?

Let's answer the first question-one definition of attitude is "the direction in which you lean"-(either toward the positive or toward the negative).

If your direct reports were asked-is your boss's attitude generally positive or generally negative, what would they say about you?