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ATTITUDE CAN DETERMINE YOUR SUCESS AS A MANAGER

Written by: MIchael Otto

Article Overview: When you manage people, your attitude plays a major role in how well you, as a manager, will perform. With the right attitude you can accomplish anything you want to and so can the people you supervise. How you can change your attitude and improve the performance of your subordinates.

ATTITUDE CAN DETERMINE YOUR SUCESS AS A MANAGER

Your Attitude Can Determine Your Success As A Manager


When you manage people, your attitude plays a major role in how well you, as a manager, will perform. With the right attitude you can accomplish anything you want to and so can the people you supervise.

What does “attitude” really mean?

An attitude is simply a method by which you let others know what you are feeling, your moods,
believes, likes/dislikes, even your securities or insecurities.
You signal your feelings through verbal or none verbal (body language) expressions. For example, when you like/dislike somebody, that person can sense, hear or see that you like/dislike that person.

When managing subordinates it is your attitude that can make a difference in their performance.
Your attitude towards a person, a project, an idea, or yourself will have a positive or negative impact on performance.
If your attitude co-insides with the expected/desired results, chances are, the results will improve dramatically.
If you want a subordinate to improve his/her performance, start with changing your attitude towards that person and that person’s performance (your expectations of that person’s performance).

Every change or desired result must start with your attitude changing towards the desired results.
For example:

You want to be the best assistant manager/supervisor in the company. You attitude must reflect your believe that you are the best assistant manager/supervisor in the company. You must start with the right attitude, or your efforts will stall. When you have the right attitude, the right actions will surly follow soon.

Whether you like it or not people around you pick-up your attitude and treat you accordingly.

Here is what you can do.
Before you try to accomplish something, it does not matter what it is, check, and if necessary adjust, your attitude to match the desired results. It is important for you to believe in the outcome.

Start with something small like doing a better job filing or keeping better records.
Consciously and deliberately, change the way you think about (attitude) filing and record keeping. Tell yourself you are doing a better job filing and record keeping and soon you will do a better job.

At first this will be difficult because you still think you can’t do it, but in time that will change and it will get easier and easier.
Write on a 3x5 index card that you are doing a great job filing and record keeping and look at it every chance you get.

Now I realize filing and record keeping is not the most important thing to do, but that is not the point. The point of this exercise is to practice changing your attitude, so don’t start with the big things, start with the little things and gradually work your way up to the more important and more difficult issues.

Keeping a positive attitude during a crisis is a quality much in demand in a manager. It will be you positive attitude that will get you out of a crisis, while a negative attitude will most likely not.

A positive attitude can be learned by anyone who wants to.
In order to change your attitude from negative to positive you must be able to control your thinking. Every time you have a negative thought (which will effect your attitude), replace that thought with a positive thought and hold on to that thought. This does take some practice but it will be worth the effort.

However, if you a negative person by nature, you will not be able to manage people successfully (at least not for very long). Most people do not respond very well to negative managers/supervisors. A negative attitude in a manager/supervisor will usually result in low morale as well as ineffective communication and poor productivity.

On of the most effective ways to change a negative attitude to a positive attitude is humor.
Humor is the cure-all-negative thought medicine.
If you have a bad thought, think of something funny.
If you have something bad happen, find some humor in it.
If you find yourself having bad thoughts just start laughing (don’t worry, pretend you are your cell phone).

When you are laughing, you can’t have bad thoughts or a bad attitude for that matter.
Did you know laughter can temporarily cure depression?
Keep your thoughts positive, be in good humor and laugh a lot. Before you know it, you have changed your attitude for good.

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