Challenging Negative Attitudes

Course Overview

This interactive full-day course explores how to challenge individual negativity as well as how to protect yourself from the negativity of others. Behavioral models to use in coaching yourself and others in how to build optimistic responses to any given situation are taught. Learn how negative norms become entrenched in an organization, department or team and how to create a more positive working environment.

Everyone is entitled to a few bad days at work. However, if you are consistently having more bad days than good ones, you have two choices: find a new job within or outside the organization or adjust your attitude. Since changing jobs constantly is not a great option (it may be viewed negatively by potential employers and can be stressful on you), it is important to keep your own attitude positive and not change jobs at every sign of difficulty.

Category	ID	Duration	Level	Price
Conflict and Stress Management	12997	1 Day(s)	Foundation	$495.00

Objectives

• Adjust your own attitude regarding your work situation
• Control the impact of negative situations
• Deal with negative people more effectively
• Determine how the explanatory styles contribute to pessimism or optimism
• Practice using disputation to enhance your optimistic side
• Discriminate between situations that call for optimism versus pessimism
• Use specific coping tools for dealing with change
• Identify the negative norms present in your own organization, department, or team
• Use a four-step process to eliminate negative organizational norms

Challenging Negative Attitudes

Course Outline

Module One: Adjusting Your Own Attitude
Evaluating attitudes
Choice one: Locating new opportunities
Choice two: Changing your attitude

Module Two: Handling Negative Situations
Analyzing reactions
Examining self-talk
Controlling impact
Using the EXPEL model

Module Three: Dealing with Negative People
Learning objectives
The four types of negative people

Module Four: Comparing Pessimism and Optimism
Your explanatory mode: optimistic or pessimistic
Understanding three dimensions of explanatory styles
Practicing optimism using two techniques

Module Five: Balancing Pessimism and Optimism
Identifying characteristics of pessimism and optimism
Circadian cycles and optimism
Finding the balance between optimism and pessimism

Module Six: Coping with the Negativity of Change
The nature of change
The stages of change
Managing change
Coping with change

Module Seven: Challenging Negative Organizational Norms
Evaluating real-life reactions
Two types of organizational norms
Challenging negative norms using a four-step process
Action plan
Course review
Solutions for every training challenge

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

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