I believe that you have a good understanding of the five rules for having a positive attitude. In this article, I am going to discuss the benefits of a positive attitude. As we discuss before, your positive feelings and behaviours are not only affecting your life. It also affects other’s lives. There are some benefits of a positive attitude and here we are going to talk about the benefits for the following parties
- Yourself
- People whom you manage
- People manage you
- Your clients and customers
Let’s discuss one by one.
What you will learn?
Benefits to yourself
Enhancing management skills
A positive attitude has a direct impact on your management skills. Because your attitudes define how well you perform. When you have more positive attitudes, your management skills will be more effective. Here are the management skills which benefits from a positive attitude.
- Delegation
- Creative thinking
- Leadership
- Planning
- Management on self
- Time management
- Managing others
- Labour relations
- Decision making
All the above skills will enhance if you practise positive feelings and thinking.
Self-satisfaction
This is an excellent personal benefit you may have personally.being positive may lead you to high self-esteem and self-respect. Also, you will learn how to face any problem with a positive attitude. Without a doubt, the confidence you have about yourself and your management skills will get increased. Being positive may show you the path that you are going and this will become a cycle of reinforcement.
Enhancement in your career
Having positive attitudes have a direct impact on your career. Even you are satisfied with the current position, and this will help you to become more advanced and effective. There are performance-related pays and annual career appraisal program in any company nowadays that you can show your colours. When you are practising a positive attitude, it will directly enhance your career.
Benefits to those whom you manage
- Having a positive mind means you are maintaining proper management. So the main benefit that others may have is they will work for a better manager. A better manager is created with genuineness, respect and other good qualities. All the above things can be achieved when you have positive attitudes. So the main benefits are to others is they will work for a better manager rather than working for a bad one.
- The second one is the people who managed by you will work more effectively. Because your attitudes directly affect their performance. If you are a negative person, their performance will get decrease without a doubt. So when your attitudes are positive, the performance of your team will get increased.
- The third one is they will be motivated. When your attitudes are positive, it directly influences your motivation, and you will try to make a better climate for others too. You will give them a chance to develop because you don’t have negative thoughts in your mind. When your team need to be creative, you will provide them with a positive incentive to achieve their needs.
- Finally, they will see you as their role model. They will try to act like you, think like you when this happens you don’t need to give them advises performing well. They will copy your behaviours and work according to those. As an example, if your attitudes on customer care are positive, obviously they will follow you and your methods because most of the attitudes are learned.
This is the benefits your team may have from your positive attitudes.
Benefits to those who manage you
Here we were talking about the parties who manage you, who supervise you, who held the upper hand of the company. So here are the benefits that they will have from your positive attitudes.
- They don’t need to supervise you, because your positive mind automatically ensures that you are an effective and quality manager.
- There will be no issues to solve in your area because all the problems are a result of adverse action. When you practice a positive mind, there will be no negative actions around you.
- The trust that your upper manager have on you will get increased. They will be able to rely on you to get things done according to the company policies.
- Your managers will receive new and creative ideas from you that can be used to compete in the business world. Because having a positive mind means thinking out of the box.
- Your managers can use you to raise morale in the workforce. They will show others how you fight to achieve organizational goals and objectives. They will use you to develop positive attitudes on others.
Benefits to clients and customers
All the things we discussed before have a direct impact on clients and customers. Let see how.
As an example lets thin you have a positive attitude toward achieving production targets, make quality products, reduce waiting times, fast delivery etc., What kind of benefits will the clients and customers have from the above positive attitude?
They will enjoy
- Better and efficient service
- Better quality products or services
- Great confidence etc.
Finally, your customer satisfaction will get increased. You will receive excellent customer loyalty because of your positive attitudes. Nowadays the trend is competition rather than monopolies. So to face this competition we need more people with positive attitudes. Without a positive environment, our company may meet near-death.
Think for a moment about all the skills you need to be a better manager.Time management,motivation,communication,leadership,decision making… The list goes on. For any of these management skills to be successful, they should be born in positive ground. It means those skills must be practised with positive attitudes. So if you want to be successful in your business and if you want your business to get successful, try building a positive attitude.
