BY ANITA PAPAS
Clinical Psychologist and Author
*Extract from ‘The Positive Us.’
Bad mood is hardly a good recipe at work. The ability to be positive is an essential leadership skill and responsibility. Whether you are the boss or the mail man, your positivity is required in the workplace. Try and keep positive towards your job and colleagues. Being a committed professional is all about learning to postpone your negative moods until you are alone.
Choose to be happy at work. We spend a considerable amount of our waking hours in our jobs. We might as well make it worthwhile. Your happiness is unique to you. You may seek excitement and massive creativity while your friend might appreciate a more quiet work atmosphere. It is important to choose a work situation which appeals to you as a person, fits in your character and most of all in a field you are passionate about. Not only do we absent ourselves long hours from home but we often carry back home to our loved ones the tiredness, the disappointments and even the frustrations of a difficult day at work. Sometimes the atmosphere of work takes control of our lives in and out of the office.
Whether you are self-employed or have a boss taking care of your pay check at the end of the month you can be positive at work by taking several crucial steps. What works at work is the following:
1. Avoid gossip among colleagues, remember the next victim may very well be you.
