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Create Positive Emotions At The Workplace. It Raises Productivity

A lot of men say that the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that the pessimist, sees women as naughty and bad. An optimist HOPES women are naughty and bad! Seriously though, you know the big difference between these two points of view: Optimism being one that can have a great impact not only on your career or profession but also on your health and life, in general. What Research Studies Say In fact, research studies have shown that optimism helps to keep depression away, improve your social ties, boost job performance and raise the chances of success in any undertaking. And when you come face to face with setbacks, optimism can make you more resilient. Pessimism, on the other hand undermines work, friendships and health. It increases your stress when you dwell on the negative too much. It actually is the recipe for depression and failure. Given these, wouldn’t you rather work with the optimist who can lighten up the day and who you can count on for support? Of course you would!, unless you’re “The Voice of Doom” who loves to hang around people who do nothing but complain, point blame at co-workers and see the whole world as nearing its end. High Performance Emanates from Optimistic Employees If you look closely at your people in the workplace, you may notice (as studies in actual work setting reflect) that your high performing teams tend to have a 6-to-1 ratio of positive to negative viewpoints. The low performing groups have an under 1-to-1 ratio. This gap generally makes a tremendous difference in your business, organizational set-up and the people who comprise them. Your best performers typically produce the top scores on profits, customer service ratings and other value measurements. Have no doubt about it. Positive emotions play a key role in a company’s daily operations.  It broadens. Negative emotions hold you back. What You Can Do So, on your one-on-ones with the negative guys help them out. Persuade them to distract themselves. Help them find healthy distractions like music, exercises, meditation, etc. Short of getting them to take up bullfighting lessons, get them to learn new things.These will help put their focus somewhere else. Get them to reappraise problems and see them in a different perspective. Is it half-full or half-empty? Is it really that complex or do they just see it as such? Teach them to regard a thought as simply that: a thought. No need for them to make any judgments. The only real thing is experience. With the foregoing, you should be able to lend a hand in raising the optimism levels in your company and shoo away all forms of negativism. This is key to productivity that leads to business success.

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Get Into Philanthropy In Your Workplace

It’s Good To Give It’s funny. You read the papers in the morning or turn on your car radio on the way to the office and you’d think the whole world has gone mad. Just about everything you read or hear involves, if not sheer evil, it’s about the destruction of human lives and property or about the unpleasant, hurtful things people, communities and, even nations do to one another. Whatever Happened To Charity? Where Has Love For One’s Fellowmen And Christian Compassion Gone?, Or, Has Man Enacted Laws Against These? The good news is that these are all alive and well. It’s just that for the broadcast journalists and newspaper reporters, there’s not much fun reporting the story about the good Samaritan. Much like today’s Hollywood producers, they’d rather spook the average family with vampires and monster stories instead of the refreshing, clean-cut, romantic tales of the Pollyannas and the girls next door. People Still Care In reality, beyond the dreadful newspaper headlines, most people still care for one another. They still give and share … time, money, food or whatever they’ve got. The fact is, in the United Kingdom alone, the average Briton is known to donate at least ten pounds a month to charity or some good causes. Many others donate larger sums annually for doing good. In general, ninety-six percent (96%) of people give to charity as they feel it’s their duty to give back to society and help resolve the inequality using their own good fortune. So, if you’re thinking of giving and sharing, you’d be in good company. And, you don’t even have to go those God-forsaken, disease-infested places Mother Theresa use to go to (unless you’re angling to be another saint!) You can do it right in your community or in your workplace. Get Into Philanthropy In Your Workplace. Being a philanthropist sounds big and impressive. Don’t let it fool you. They’re not only for the Bill Gates’ and Oprah Winfrey’s of this world. Philanthropy is something anybody can get into. That includes you and me. Any giving or sharing of time or money to charity is regarded as philanthropy. Here Are Some Fundamental Things You Can Adopt To Back-Up Whatever Charitable Activities May Be Happening In Your Company. Get Into It And Make It Personal. Be A Do-Gooder: One of the benefits of advocating philanthropy in the workplace is that you can align your work activities to revolve around an area of passion. Make It Social: Rather than spending lots of money on team-building sessions, You and your team can simply choose a worthy cause and together, you can go out into the field and learn some real team-ship is. Take Some Time Out To Do Good: One of the most common reasons for not engaging in some philanthropic work is “I don’t have enough time.” If you happen to be one of the head honchos in the office, then you’d be in a position to free up some time for your guys to get involved in some “do-good” activity. It’s been proven .. taking the time to incorporate and recognize philanthropy in a company motivates employees in better productivity. To be sure, these are just some of the simple philanthropic things we can do at the office. There are more. You should do them. It’s good for you, your co-workers, your company and your soul!

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