Lead Your Associates To The Higher (Sheen) Road

In the harsh climate of business world today, and the with the world economy all over the board, there is plenty of room for pessimism and negativity.  It’s easy to sit back, like they do on the cable shows, and pot shot the problems.  Although it works well for cable ratings, it does not help in the workplace or with Sales.  A SalesGoat with a negative world view will depress all but a few of their new clients and eventually find that their Sales drop off a cliff.  An associate who sits back and does nothing but complain is a drag at work.  The negative banter gets old and boring fast.  Customers, our associates, and people in general,  love upbeat and positive people, and upbeat and positive attitudes.

This isn’t to say that dirty laundry and problems are interesting too.  After all, nothing seems more interesting to folks right now than the Charlie Sheen breakdown, but I can guarantee you it isn’t fun for the folks who had jobs on the set of , Two and a Half Men.  Charlie’s negativity was fatal to the show.

With that in mind each day at work we have plenty of opportunity to throw water on the workday fires or throw kerosene.  We can choose to take the high road or the low road several times a day.  We can attack with whispers, or we can do a full frontal assault on our bosses like Charlie Sheen.  It’s obvious how management is forced to respond to a “Charlie Sheen”, type situation, but the hidden negativity, whispering downers, are harder to deal with and find, but they are just as fatal to an office over time.  As we are what we eat, we are what we think, and we become what we listen to, at work and in life.

With that in mind make the decision that you will be part of the solutions and a positive process and take the high road in the workplace.   Keep your attitude in a positive frame and your responses to change moderate and open.  Take the high road….the view is better and the air is cleaner.

Tell Uncle Billy about the negative downers types where you work.  Are they helping?  Would you want to be one of them?