None of us walk around 24/7 feeling happy and at peace with the world. Sometimes we have things going on at home, health issues to contend with, or sometimes something silly sparks off a bad mood, like someone cutting us up at a roundabout on the way to work.
As a manager, you don’t have to be ‘on’ all of the time, but you do have to consider how your attitude and behaviours affect your team.
Most people aren’t naturally optimistic and confident, and able to regulate their emotions. It’s all about mindset, and managers who are like that intentionally work at it.
They understand that their attitudes and behaviours affect their team members, so they set the tone by being positive and inspiring even when things are difficult. Contact us for more information on the Business and Management Consultancy UK.
Your Attitude is a Choice
When you’re not feeling positive about something, you have a choice. You can complain to someone else, worry, or get frustrated, or you can take a pause and find some positives in the situation.
If you’re not feeling great about something, a positive attitude won’t just miraculously develop, you have to consciously work on the attitude you want to adopt. You have to think about how your attitudes and behaviours affect your team. Contact us for more information on the Difficult Conversations Easier Course.
What Impact Does Your Attitude and Behaviours Have on Your Team?
As a manager, you set the tone for your team. Your attitude and behaviours have an impact. As you’d expect, if a manager has a positive attitude, that’s likely to be reflected in their team. If they have a negative one, the pervading attitude in their team will probably be negative too.
Are your team engaged?
Do they often go the extra mile?
Are people loyal and do they want to stay?
If not, this could be down to your attitudes and behaviours as a manager.
Think about it; your attitude has an impact on your team members’ emotions. If your negative attitude rubs off on them, they may be less committed to their work which in turn can lead to disengagement, poor productivity, and high staff turnover. All of which will affect the bottom line.
On the other hand, if you have a positive attitude and approach, and you model the behaviours you expect from others, you’ll attract and retain good people who want to do well. Contact us for more information on the Conversations Catalyst Coaching.
How to Have a Better Attitude
Here are my tips on how managers can shift their attitude so it has a positive impact on them and their team.
Focus on the positives
What do you really enjoy about your job? What do you like about your team? What individual and collective strengths do they have? Focusing on the positives can really help shift your attitude.
Catch your thoughts
This can be easier said than done. Your thoughts and mindset are the product of a lifetime of conditioning which is not easy to undo. However, you can learn to catch your thoughts and in time, change the way you think. For example, you can challenge your thoughts. When you come up against some sort of difficulty, do you default to negative and self-defeating thinking? Learn to challenge these thoughts with evidence of things you’ve done before and succeeded.
Censor what you say
Do you tend to slip into complaining or negative mode without thinking about it? Have you thought about how your attitude and behaviours affect your team when it comes to the things you say?
If you constantly complain, people will just stop listening and they won’t take you seriously. They’ll just think ‘here we go again.’ On the other hand, if you complain infrequently and in the right way, people will take notice and realise that you’re serious about whatever it is.
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