Your Attitude: Deadly or Dazzling?
Arnold Sanow, MBA, CSP 'Get Along Coach'
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Your attitude reflects your thoughts and feelings and is revealed in your voice, your words, and your facial expressions. Your attitude has a direct impact on the quality of your relationships and helps determine whether you engage people or turn them off. Your attitudes direct your destiny in both subtle and significant ways.
Positive attitude (we call them Dazzling Attitudes) are like powerful magnets. A person with a positive attitude looks on the bright side and tries to see the best in everyone and everything. They attract the interest of others with their optimism, enthusiasm, and love of life. Positive attitudes also seem to magically bring out the best in others.
What’s it like being with those on the flip side, the people who complain, blame, and see the worst in others? Uncomfortable? Miserable to spend even a few moments in their presence? Do you find yourself concocting excuses to keep interactions with them brief or avoid them altogether? Negative attitudes (we call them Deadly Attitudes) are naturally repelling. The only thing these attitudes attract is a chain of avoidance strategies by people who don’t want to catch them.
Based on my research and my keynotes and workshops focusing on improving rapport, relationships, communication and connection with customers and co-workers, here is a list of the differences between a dazzling and deadly attitude
Dazzling Attitude Traits Deadly Attitude Traits
Optimistic Pessimistic
Courageous Fearful
Patient Impatient
Thoughtful Rude
Cheerful Complaining
Caring Uncaring
Interested Bored
Helpful Grumpy
Confident Conceited
Warm Cold
Enthusiastic Apathetic
Supportive Critical
Friendly Aloof
Motivated Lazy
Authentic Fake
Forgiving Vengeful
Attitudes are contagious. Dazzling Attitudes are worth catching. Deadly Attitudes are like the plague, contaminating connections and breeding bad feelings.
Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?
Arnold Sanow, MBA, CSP is a speaker, trainer, coach, facilitator and author of 6 books to include “Get Along with Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere … 8 keys to creating enduring connections with customers, co-workers – even kids”. To make your next meeting a memorable one contact Arnold at 703-255-3133 – www.arnoldsanow.com – [email protected]
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4 年This is solid information, Arnold Sanow, MBA, CSP 'Get Along Coach'. The list of attitudes on the right side of the chart is, unfortunately, becoming more prevalent for many reasons, from WFH to fear of layoffs and beyond. I feel for the manager or supervisor who is attempting to hire a good employee who has these traits (left side) and the only contact is via phone or video, because of social distancing. Then, the employee works remotely so the leader does not have a chance to observe the employee in action or get to know them one-on-one. Maybe you could write a followup article? Questions the supervisor should ask on a video chat and behaviors to watch for. Thanks!