ADVANTAGES OF OPTIMISM DRIVER
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It’s one of those paint-your-own-sign workshops. I just got back from a DIY workshop at AR workshops.

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I’m sitting in my studio office, the Live Free Creative headquarters. We’re trying to get them to like us by feeding them lots of treats and raspberries and grapes and mealworms and all sorts of fun things and I can’t wait to share some stories about my chickens with you as time goes forward right now I just wanted to introduce you to them so you know all about them.Īnother fun thing that just barely happened. Her name is Goldie and we call her Goldie Han as kind of a riff on Goldie Hawn. She’s black with really pretty golden stripes.

The biggest, mother hen is Plum’s chicken. Eliot’s chicken is black with little white stripes in her feathers. Milo’s chicken is white with black speckles. Mozzarella is all white, she is Dave and my hen. Within the city limits of Richmond, VA where we live, up to four hens are allowed per chicken permit. They’re not as plump and round as regular hens, but they look like chickens. We had added for chickens to our family and I’m completely in love with them!! They are about 16 or 18 weeks old at this point. I want to be a person that despite any troubles or trials or obstacles or unexpected illnesses or injuries, I want to be the person who sees the good and sees the lesson and moves beyond it into enjoying the things that I can control about my life. I want to be a person who automatically sees the good in my life. I do put a lot of focus and energy in my life on trying to be optimistic, because there are so many advantages of optimism! I also think that a lot of it can be trained. On one hand, I think that some level of optimism is innate and natural. People also ask me how I stay happy despite problems going on in life. I get comments about my sunny disposition often. If you’re a leader who looks on the bright side of life, you’re in good company: one study of more than 1,000 CEOs based in the US found that 80 percent were more optimistic than the average person.I am a fairly optimistic person. In other words, merely anticipating success may make it more likely for people to attain it, since they will probably push harder for positive outcomes. That’s Tali Sharot, neuroscientist and professor at University College London, on how optimism can create a self-fulfilling prophecy in our careers. “If you believe that positive things will happen, it boosts your motivation to try harder, and that can change the actual outcome.” Such organizations are also more likely to innovate quickly and adapt well to change.

When executives demonstrate positive behaviors such as consulting team members and showing support for employees, they create a work environment that is both safer and higher performing.

ADVANTAGES OF OPTIMISM DRIVER

Rather, if leaders acknowledge that things may not go back to the way they were, organizations can focus on how best to move forward and help employees regain a sense of equilibrium.Įven though a positive team climate is the most important driver of psychological safety, McKinsey research finds, just 43 percent of respondents in a McKinsey Global Survey say that their leaders act in ways that foster a positive workplace. For example, making promises about a return to normal during the COVID-19 crisis may cause disillusionment as the pandemic lingers. They can project confidence that the organization will overcome the present crisis but acknowledge that the situation is uncertain. Instead, leaders should practice “bounded optimism”-hopefulness grounded in reality. If leaders appear exceedingly confident while ignoring obviously difficult circumstances, they can lose credibility. But confidence, when untethered to reality, can make leaders appear out of touch or uninformed. People expect their leaders to deliver messages of hope and inspiration. In a crisis, balance optimism with reality But does maintaining an optimistic outlook help you lead more effectively? This week, let’s look at what optimism has to offer leaders-along with what happens when there’s too much of it. Research reveals that people tend to pay more attention to messages that are framed in a positive way. Particularly in times of crisis, people rely on leaders to inspire and inform, helping them cope with uncertainty and combat feelings of fear and anxiety. ‘A leader is a dealer in hope,’ Napoleon famously mused (presumably, before a career-ending defeat at Waterloo). ESSENTIALS FOR LEADERS AND THOSE THEY LEAD

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