Arlene’s Executive Leadership Training Tip
5 Tips for Staying Positive Inside or Outside Work
This week as part of your executive leadership training we are looking at how to create a positive mindset and pass it on to others. Five tips follow to help you develop the change.
1) Wake up each day with an intention to transcend all the negativity that bombards you during the day. Commit to developing a mindset that will motivate you to enjoy life and your work. Constantly remind yourself of all that you have created and accomplished.
2) Create an affirmation that will help YOU support YOU to create desirable outcomes? Use it to:
a. wipe out your self-talk
b. erase the negativity you hear around you
For example, I live in possibility thinking and/or I see five new ways to get to a solution on this issue. Avoid trying to change the thinking of others.
3) View yourself sitting in the middle of a large Plexiglas box which is covering you on all sides when you are in negative meetings or conversations. Then, watch the negative words, thoughts and attitudes bounce back to their owners.
4) Stand up for yourself by expressing your emotions (yes these too), ideas and needs with CONFIDENCE. The majority of people do not ask for what they need and then complain that they don’t have it. This is a major concept that people do not “get” and then wonder why they are not put into leadership roles.
5) Allow yourself the time to develop several possible solutions to issues you are facing.
Check out my respond vs. reaction sheet. Use this steps I suggest to practice responding to others.
