Do You Feel Lucky?

(and feel free to comment! My older posts are certainly no less relevant to the burning concerns of the day.)

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Combating Negativity In The Workplace

[Ed: This is actually a 'Monday Work Blog' post. It had to be moved to Tuesday because of the holiday.]

In the neighborhood of productivity, disapproval is a sinkhole of bad feelings. It erodes the foundations of the homes where some very important families live: the Process-Improvement family. The Teamworks. The Morales. The McProfits and the O'Revenues. Disapproval undermines all of these happy neighbors, and disrupts the harmony of their productive little world.

Disapproval does that. It's disapproval's fault.

So as far as I'm concerned, there is NEVER a good reason to express disapproval. It's just a bad way to put it! Put it a good way instead: whenever anyone says something or advocates a course of action that you feel is idiotic, and/or would be ruinous, don't disapprove of what they say. Just don't. Instead, express your immediate, vigorous approval of the opposite!

Example: "I think it's a great idea not to do that!"

So positive, and so easy. By expressing yourself with positivity and enthusiasm, you get your point across more effectively, and without all the ego clash and hurt feeling that disapproval brings down.

Try it out. You'll see - and so will those around you.

No comments: