In Dealing With Negative Attitudes in the Workplace, you'll learn...
- How to recognize the warning signs of excessive negativity in your organization
- Specific steps you can take to introduce positive change
- How to keep negativity from spreading
- How to prevent the negative attitudes of others from affecting you
- And much more!
Negative attitudes are a bottom-line issue. In people, they lead to demotivation, diminished achievement and even illness. In organizations, they increase friction, lower morale and reduce productivity. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Destructive negativity can be remedied. Negative people can be helped to understand the counter-productive and self-defeating consequences of their negativism and see the benefits of changing it. Are you ready for the benefits of a more positive and productive workplace? This workshop will give you the practical, proven methods and techniques for changing negative behaviors into positive ones. The tools you need are right here—enroll today.
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Root sources of negative attitudes and self-defeating behaviors+
- The 2 contrasting “world views” and how they affect our attitudes and perceptions
- Where does negative thinking come from?
- Understanding the profound effect of attitude on personal achievement and job performance
- Recognizing and dealing with the 4 most common negative personality types encountered in the workplace
Assessing and dealing with negativity in the workplace+
- The 10 warning signs of excessive negativity in an organization
- What to do if you’re the negativist in the workplace
- How to cope effectively with a negative boss
- How to stimulate cooperation between conflicting teams and departments, build communication and eliminate excuses and finger-pointing
- How to survive (even thrive) in a negative work environment
- What you can do to be a catalyst for positive change in a negatively charged organization
- How one Fortune 500 company dramatically improved the effectiveness of its sales force by controlling negativity
- How to distinguish true negativity from thoughtful, productive “what might go wrong” contingency thinking
How to limit the destructive effects of negative people+
- Why negative thinkers often strongly influence the thoughts, actions and attitudes of the rest of us
- How to prevent negative attitudes from spreading to others
- How to keep yourself from being dragged into negative thinking patterns
- How to make sure you’re not inadvertently provoking negative responses in otherwise positive people
- Coping strategies for dealing with chronically negative people
- How to counter the detrimental impact of negative individuals on the whole work group
- How to salvage derailed meetings, abandoned projects and shot-down ideas, and reclaim the ground already lost to negativism
Managing the negativist+
- Guidelines for recognizing full-blown negativists in the workplace
- Understanding the negative personality
- Watching out for the 10 most common situations in which negativists encounter problems on the job
- Interpreting negative workers’ attitudes in the context of their personal paradigms
- Recognizing in which jobs mildly negative personalities perform well and which ones absolutely require an optimistic style
- How to counter the impact of negativism on individual and team performance
- How to help foot-dragging pessimists recognize the self-defeating nature of their thinking styles
Coaching yourself and others out of negative thoughts, attitudes and beliefs+
- The 5-step plan to becoming the master instead of the victim of your thoughts and feelings
- How to break the negative habits of worrying and catastrophizing
- 10 specific ways to turn a negative attitude around
- How to establish a positive work culture that encourages optimism and mutual support for correcting negative patterns
- Recognizing the self-defeating activities that contribute to negativity
- Taking control of the quality of your life with the CPA formula
- What every manager and supervisor should know about coaching individuals and teams to higher performance
- How to use a simple yet very effective formula for changing pessimism to optimism
Negativity and you+
- Do you tend toward negativity or optimism? You’ll find out with this revealing self-profile
- Understanding the connection between how you think and how you feel
- Persuasive scientific evidence that optimism leads directly to a healthier (and longer) life
- Why it is vitally important for your emotional well-being that you manage any tendency you may have toward excessive pessimism and negativity
- When negativity plays a useful role in your life and work
- The 7 major pitfalls of a chronically negative outlook on life
- How to cultivate the qualities of a positive personality
- Recognizing those situations in which an optimistic thinking style should be tempered with a dash of pessimism
