32 min
109 - How To Minimize Negativity Rookie Leaders Podcast
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- Careers
Do you struggle with negativity in your team? Do you often hear comments like “that won’t work because…” from team members? Or maybe you feel a real struggle to energize or excite your team about the goal you're working to achieve.
Negativity can be a cancer that robs your team of productivity, efficiency, and success. You can minimize, even eliminate, negativity in your team. You can remove this obstacle that prevents your team from achieving goals.
The key to doing so is focus. Focus is a simple concept. The difficult aspect of focus is identifying what to focus on. In this episode, I’ll identify exactly what you need to focus on in order to minimize, even eliminate, negativity in your team.
Show Outline
Why Negativity Must Be Removed
If you say you can or can’t, you’re right
Contagious
Often grounded in fear, not reality
Focus
Not on what you don’t have
Focus on what you have
How to shift focus
Not a covert operation
Acknowledge what you don’t have, but don’t dwell on it
List everything you do have
Benefits
Shift to positive mindset
More efficient plans
Justifications for more
Why not just fire negative team members?
Negativity will persist
New hires will also turn negative if negativity isn’t addressed properly
Resources Mentioned
The Leadership Calculator
The Leadership Accelerator
Do you struggle with negativity in your team? Do you often hear comments like “that won’t work because…” from team members? Or maybe you feel a real struggle to energize or excite your team about the goal you're working to achieve.
Negativity can be a cancer that robs your team of productivity, efficiency, and success. You can minimize, even eliminate, negativity in your team. You can remove this obstacle that prevents your team from achieving goals.
The key to doing so is focus. Focus is a simple concept. The difficult aspect of focus is identifying what to focus on. In this episode, I’ll identify exactly what you need to focus on in order to minimize, even eliminate, negativity in your team.
Show Outline
Why Negativity Must Be Removed
If you say you can or can’t, you’re right
Contagious
Often grounded in fear, not reality
Focus
Not on what you don’t have
Focus on what you have
How to shift focus
Not a covert operation
Acknowledge what you don’t have, but don’t dwell on it
List everything you do have
Benefits
Shift to positive mindset
More efficient plans
Justifications for more
Why not just fire negative team members?
Negativity will persist
New hires will also turn negative if negativity isn’t addressed properly
Resources Mentioned
The Leadership Calculator
The Leadership Accelerator
32 min