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Being a Positive Leader – How Can Your Attitude Affect Your Team?
What is one of the most important tools a leader can have? Extensive training, a handful of certificates, or an impressive resume maybe? Surprisingly, all these things pale in comparison to one tool no leader should be without, a positive mental attitude.
That’s right, having a positive mental attitude determines how you experience your life. In turn, it determines how you behave as a leader, and the influence you have on others. We have talked before about smiling and the positive to negative ratio – so this information shouldn’t come as a surprise to you. The underlying message behind all those tips we enjoy sharing with you, is to have the right mental attitude.
When you smile, you make others happy. When you concentrate on being the positive factor in your team’s day, their productivity goes up. When you seek out good things to say about others, you will find more good things about them. This is not coincidental. This is the power of being positive.
I know sometimes that can seem like an impossible task. With all the worries and stresses of today, staying positive might not be at the top of your to do list. You hear everyone speak of the down economy, you watch horrors on the news, and you may have lay-offs or shut-downs in your company. I am certainly not saying staying positive isn’t a challenge sometimes. However, as leaders . . . should we not rise to the challenge? You don’t need to be unrealistically upbeat, just try to remember that you can affect a lot more than you think by adjusting your perception.
Your attitude has the power to not only lift you up or pull you down, but affect your team in the same way. Look for the positives in situations. Remember, as the saying goes, you need “to accept the things I cannot change, and the courage to change the things I can”. You simply need the wisdom to know the difference between the two. Try hard to focus on only the things you can directly influence. Work at making a positive difference on those things. Every day seek out new ways to keep yourself positive and new positive people to be around.
Remember, “Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.” What good will you find today?
Leanne Crain is a Marketing and Administrative Assistant for the business consulting company BizXcel which publishes Generating Greatness, the bi-weekly ezine for business professionals. If you are ready to push your business to new heights, make more money, save time and improve productivity, then get your FREE tips now at http://www.bizxcel.com
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The Positive Effects Of Team Fundraising
The Positive Effects Of Team Fundraising
Team fundraising campaigns are not only of great help to people because of the opportunity that they provide in terms of raising money or funds but also because of the values that volunteers get to learn from them, which is considered by some to be more important.
During a team fundraising campaign, coaches are presented with the opportunity to work and bring together the members of his group so that they will be able to work towards one goal. With this given fact, teamwork is further enhanced as the members go through different types of fundraising ideas, which they can choose to carry out. First among the positive effects of team fundraisers would be personal growth. Through a campaign, the members of the group will be able to grow personally by learning resiliency, self confidence, and self esteem during the process. In this manner, they will be able to develop maturity and independence while they get the opportunity to have a much better perspective of themselves and the people around them. Through fundraising campaigns, young people will be able to develop practical skills which will be of great use to them once they finish studying and enter the real world. In addition to this, joining in a campaign will also allow volunteers to learn how to solve different types of problems and handle stress during different situations. In this manner, they will be able to train themselves to be more optimistic when it comes to facing the different challenges of life.
Another positive advantage would be teamwork. When the volunteers are working on a fundraiser, they will be working hand in hand with each other. This means that they will be able to spend time together even more aside from the time that they spend with each other during practice sessions and games. With this given, you will discover that teamwork can not only be developed during games but also during other activities that are done off the court or field. Next, working in a campaign will enable volunteers to learn the importance of setting goals in life and working hard to achieve them. In this manner, they will be able to realize how powerful goal setting can be in terms of providing them a sense of direction in life so that they will have a good idea about the things that they need to do so that they will be able to reach their aspirations in life. This would be so since a campaign also needs to have goals and objectives that should be set by the people who will be carrying it out. This is basically done during the planning phase of the fundraiser wherein the members need to formulate the things that they want to achieve and the things that they need to do to achieve them. Aside from learning the process and importance of setting goals, volunteers will also be able to learn the importance of prioritizing things in their lives in the sense that they will know what they should do first so that they can attain what they have set.
If you are planning on carrying out a team fundraising campaign really soon, you can check out some cool ideas at the AIM Fundraising website.
