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How to Have a Positive Workplace

December 26, 2007

• "Manage attitudes to maintain optimism. Focus on the good things that happen, not the bad.
• When bad things happen, stimulate a feeling of security by focusing on anything you can do to weather the storm or to improve the weather.
• Recognize effort and focus on strengths.
• Nurture a spirit of playfulness in yourself and your people.  It turns problems into opportunities (Hiam, 2005, p.40)."

Reference:  Hiam, A. (2005).  The starfish files: one leader's account of insight & inspiration under duress.  Amherst, MA:  HRD Press.

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Created: 2008-02-28, Updated: 2009-01-06