Attitudes
• Level One:
• Sociable, Courteous, and Adaptable
• Level Two: Learn how to handle difficult
people.
• Positive Attitudes:
– Humor
– Bonding
– Positive Attitudes Travel!
Attitudes
• Negative Attitudes:
– Make it difficult for other people
– Like a Spoiled apple in the barrel infects others.
– Represses fun and harmless horse play.
Baby Boomers at age 50
• Auto Theft • Computer Crime
• Downhill Skiing • Cross Country
• Smoking Grass • Cutting Grass
• Motorized Movies • Cable TV
• Jogging • Hiking
• IOU’s • IRS’s
• Lawyers • Accountants
• Sun Tans • Face Lifts
Baby Boomers at 50
• Passion • Practicality
• Fast Lane • Exit Ramp
YOUR ATTITUDE IS SHOWING
•Chapman & O’Neil
•YOU CAN’T ESCAPE HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS
What you accomplish can be magnified by the relationships
you build in getting it accomplished.
•HUMAN RELATIONS CAN MAKE OR BREAK YOU
Can you afford to resist adjusting when change is the only
constant in life?
•HOLD ON TO YOUR POSITIVE ATTITUDE
Like plants, your attitude needs nurturing in order to grow.
•WHEN PEOPLE STEP ON YOUR ATTITUDE
If your attitude needs surgery, don’t expect a vitamin to cure
the ill.
•VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
Life without continuously working at building good relationships is
not living.
•PRODUCTIVITY - A CLOSER LOOK
Is your attitude a value-added component for your work group?
•THE WINNING COMBINATION
Every day of your life, put into practice the winning equation.
E=mc2
•YOUR MOST IMPORTANT WORKING RELATIONSHIP
Positive relationships are built from positive behaviors transmitted
by a positive attitude.
•UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE OF RELATIONSHIPS
•Your attitude, like the small flame of a candle, can have an
illuminating effect.
•SUCCESS AS A TEAM PLAYER
Attitude is the rock upon which the foundation of team spirit is
built.
•STRESS MANAGEMENT: RELEASING YOUR
FRUSTRATIONS HARMLESSLY
A positive attitude is the enemy of stress and frustration.
•RESTORING INJURED RELATIONSHIPS
•If your present attitude were broadcast in stereo surround
sound, how would you be received?
•ATTITUDES AMONG CULTURALLY DIVERSE CO-
WORKERS
Avoid a stereotype attitude: Walk a mile in the other person’s
shoes.
•SUCCEEDING IN A NEW JOB OR ASSIGNMENT
Success can depend on luck; and to increase your
propensity for luck, seek out opportunities and work hard.
•INITIATION RITES - COPING WITH TEASING
If you can turn a negative situation into a positive one, you
have conquered one of the most powerful attributes know to
man.
•ABSENTEEISM AND HUMAN-RELATIONS
Continual excuses for work missed may permanently excuse
a person from work.
BUSINESS ETHICS, RUMORS, AND THE CONFIDENCE
TRIANGLE
Only with humor, consider a rumor; be matter of fact, with
ethics in tact.
•GOAL SETTING AND ATTITUDE
The journey through life is most successful when driven by
goals.
•TWO ROUTES TO THE TOP
Having a career alternative could help stabilize the wind
beneath your wings should you be forced from your perch.
SIX COMMON HUMAN-RELATIONS MISTAKES
•If your attitude barometer suggests the need for a change in
weather, give it a positive upturn
•Failure to listen
•Underestimating others
•Failure to report or admit mistakes to management
•Failure to provide your own motivation
•Permitting others to turn you into a victim
•Falling prey to negative drift
•KEEPING A POSITIVE ATTITUDE THROUGH PLATEAU
PERIODS AND REORGANIZATIONS
A positive attitude will provide solid footing if a pause on the
career ladder becomes longer than anticipated
•WHEN YOU ARE TEMPTED TO SCRAMBLE
To move mountains of uncertainty and change, you need to
have the right attitude.
•ATTITUDE RENEWAL
Frequent attitude renewal can turn ruts and roadblocks into
unforeseen opportunities.
•MOVING UP TO LEADERSHIP/MANAGEMENT
If you could assume the attitude of your choice, is YOURS
the one you would select.
•A COMMON HUMAN-RELATIONS MISTAKE
If your attitude barometer suggests the need for a change in
weather, give it a positive upturn.
•BUSINESS ETHICS, RUMORS, AND THE CONFIDENCE
TRIANGLE
Only with humor, consider a rumor; be matter of fact, with
ethics in tact.
•GOAL SETTING AND ATTITUDE
The journey through life is most successful when driven by
goals.
•TWO ROUTES TO THE TOP
Having a career alternative could help stabilize the wind
beneath your wings should you be forced from your perch.