You can picture this!  In fact, it could even be your own work place.

You walk into the office and people seem disinterested and negative and some don’t seem to enjoy their jobs or even want to be there.

Throw in some workplace conflict, peppered with bad attitudes and fiery tempers (or the silent types, who say nothing but ‘get you later’) and you have a recipe for workplace unhappiness, lowering productivity and organisation struggle street.

By definition, an attitude is ‘a settled way of thinking or feeling about something’. Presumably, that means good or bad. Source: www.dictionary.com/browse.

A good attitude can make the significant difference between liking or hating your colleagues, your workplace and your job.

Yet many spend time showing a negative attitude that exhausts and infuriates others, all the time eating away at team morale like a slow cancer.

Often, their attitudes and bad behaviour are not addressed, so the bad vibe spreads. And unhappiness increases….!

Your attitude is your choice

An attitude is not something with which we are born. We learn attitudes from others around us, particularly in our younger years.

For example, if you grow up in a family where the belief is that ‘women belong at home and not in the workplace’ there is a chance of you adopting and following that same value as you become older.

These attitudes are not helpful and to understand them, it is important to realise where we learn them.

Three helpful values (that drives attitudes) to assist in your career are pride, passion and belief (in yourself and the organisation).

Pride means caring enough about what you do to do the very best you can time and time again.

Passion means intense enthusiasm for your work and lastly, belief means that you believe in you to do a top job consistently.

Source:http://www.career-success-for-newbies.com/define-your-attitude.html

Conclusion

Attitudes at work matter, a lot!  If you spend time having a bad attitude and making others around you miserable, you may as well choose to see situations and people around you in a more positive light.

You are spending the same energy having either a negative or positive attitude, so you may as well choose to be optimistic and upbeat and enjoy all the benefits that a positive attitude brings to you – and others.

Caryn Walsh is an International Business Consultant, Executive Coach, Keynote Speaker. Write to Caryn Walsh at info@puremagicbusiness.com.au or visit Pure Magic’s website.