Does attitude affect the effectiveness of leadership and/or the team’s effectiveness in a business environment? Yes, for attitude is one of the largest factors in a team’s success. Positive attitude does not guarantee success, yet a negative attitude among co-workers does guarantee failure for the team. Attitude will either lift up the team or tear the team down.
Positive attitude will inspire an individual or team to reach beyond their abilities to give it your all to accomplish the goal and then some. People that surround themselves with positive attitudes increase their chance of growth. This is demonstrated when team members that have the ability to lead may step back and allow another member of the team to lead. A positive attitude will praise the other member of the group even though they get none of the credit. Negative attitude tears down motivation and creativity? Negative attitudes prevent an individual or a team from reaching their goals and objectives. A Negative attitude pushes people away from each other and destroys trust and respect for one another. The worst characteristic of negative attitude is that it compounds faster than a positive attitude. It may take a person smiling at the neighbor everyday for two weeks before getting a smile returned; yet one frown will produce another frown in a second. | Negative attitude is easy to recognize in the work place. You may have already witnessed a negative attitude within your college. A person that is unwilling to admit wrongdoing, failure to forgive someone that has apologized, or has displayed the “Disease of Me”. The “Disease of Me”, as you may have guessed is the person that can only talk about themselves, their accomplishments, and has no though of the team. A positive attitude is recognizable, but some times a person with a positive attitude may look like a negative attitude. A person may have had a bad experience, or just been given tragic news. As leaders we need to know how to spot both of these attitudes and encourage the positive and correct the negative. Some times that may mean to just get away from it. Examine yourself, do you have a positive or a negative attitude. |