If you've ever spent winter in the Northeast, you know that maintaining a positive outlook during the long, cold months can be tough. It's easy to forget an important fire that keeps companies like Virtucom Group running. While having great skills and a determined team is important, neither matches up to the power of enthusiasm and attitude.
Keeping a positive attitude turns problem solving into solution finding. Rather than focusing on there being a problem, focusing on finding a solution often leads to improved overall processes and systems. It's easy to get caught up and lost in the high-energy holiday grind – instead of letting this hamper an otherwise positive attitude, use this as a boost forward toward your goal.
Improvement as a team, as individuals and members of our community is a goal that most companies strive for. Sometimes, all it takes is 1 seed of the right attitude and optimism to launch this effort into fast forward. Reshape your attitude about challenges with these tips on staying positive to achieve your goals:
No Idea is Insignificant
Working together as a team while merging, shaping and improving each other’s ideas is key to finding long-lasting solutions to most “problems” that can arise. Even if you don't think your idea or solution could possibly be viable, there are concepts that other team members may agree with, build upon and find useful. Creative, open-minded thinking yields great results.
Sharing is Caring, After All
Finding a solution to a difficult situation can be a long process. When a solution is found, we often take pride in the end of that process and share the solution with our team members. It's like raising your hand with a question during class in grade school – someone else probably has the same question you do. Sharing your solutions with your team helps everyone succeed going forward.
Making and Growing Connections
Sometimes great ideas for your projects come from the most unlikely of people, whether it's someone from another team or someone who performs a drastically different task than you. Crowd sourcing solutions from like-minded, goal-oriented people can help grow and expand your connections on your own team and within the industry. Others can see your positive attitude. This not only reflects well on you and your team, but can begin to spread a positive way of thinking to other people who see it. Pay it forward and watch your efforts blossom.
Benefits, Benefits, Benefits
While there are many obvious and immediate benefits of keeping a positive and optimistic attitude in the work place, it's easy to skim over less conspicuous benefits. Organization, boosted team morale, attention to detail and a better appreciation for these “problems” and their solutions all come out of keeping a positive attitude in seemingly difficult situations.
Buddy Scalera says it well in his article for the Content Marketing Institute, 5 Tips for Coming to Town with a Great Content Plan. In a seasonably appropriate article Buddy reminds us how keeping lists, high spirits, and enthusiasm are critically important (just like Santa!). Buddy writes, "Happiness is contagious, but you can’t mandate it. Acknowledge the stress and recognize that creativity on a deadline isn’t easy. Lead your team with a smile, a hearty laugh and a twinkle in your eye.”
What are some ways your company maintains positive attitudes to excel? Do you have any solution-finding methods that are tried and true? Let us know in the comments section below.
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