If your team has been suppressing their true thoughts, ideas, and feelings for some time, it may take awhile to get them to open up. Embrace your role in proactively asking your team and rewarding those on your team who open up with praise and encouragement. Keep probing beneath the surfa...
Same as in the personal context, toxic positivity in the workplace can often go unnoticed due to being mistaken for a positive mindset incorporated into the company culture. It can also be a result of having several members of a team bringing toxic positivity into the workplace, which then i...
Toxic positivity can also damage relationships in the workplace or produce weak, inauthentic connections with others. When employees are told to“Look at the bright side”or“It’s not that bad,”they may feel like they can’t express their true feelings to their colleagues or managers. As a...
And what about you? What are you doing in your workplace to encourage people to be nice and say something nice? Do you have any creative ideas? Leave a comment in the comment box! Michael Kerr. Michael Kerr is a Canadian Hall of Fame speaker and the author of 8 books, including The ...
Subsequently, follower PsyCap was significantly related to employee's originality of ideas; one important component of creativity in the workplace. We discuss the theoretical contributions of linking leader and follower PsyCap in what emerges as a directional contagion effect, and the mediating role ...
Positive thinking can foster a broader and more flexible cognitive perspective, enhancing problem-solving capabilities and creativity, which can lead to more productive teams both in and outside the workplace. In addition, a positive attitude often leads to increased motivation and a drive to ...
Or that one quarter event that you might have in the workplace, once a quarter. For those with Positivity, how can it be used to support others? Jim Collison7:09 Yeah, no some great opportunities too. One of the things I've been working on, my son was working in a really difficult...
I recall my first experience coaching online since the start of the pandemic. In familiar, yet equally unfamiliar territory, I found myself greeting my coachee with mild trepidation. “What if I can’t make a connection online as I have done at the workplace?”. “What if they fi...
Same-sex couples were only granted the right to marry in every U.S. state a few years ago, and LGBTQ people continue to face workplace discrimination and harassment. Deadly police violence disproportionately affects black communities. Transgender children no longer have the Department of Education ...
Your tribe may contain a Master-Mind group of people who are all able to work and contribute to the same cause, ideas, and projects. Without a tribe it is hard to make true changes within a community and see the forces of change at work. If you really want to have a positive impact...