Action Required: Step Up, Rise Up
We need courageous leadership in the workplace. We need it now.
When you help your employees build their optimism and resilience skills, you foster well-being and cultivate success. Optimism and resilience are not fixed traits. Optimism and resilience are more than just mindsets. They are skills you can master and apply in practical and meaningful ways. I know because I've done it.
For me, optimism is hope strengthened by the belief your actions matter. Optimism is not blind faith that things will get better all by themselves. We all encounter challenges that range from mild annoyances to horrific tragedies. It's how we navigate those challenges that makes the difference. When you have optimism and resilience resources to tap into--including training that changes your mindset and exercises that change your behaviors--you handle those challenges more effectively.
Optimism is contagious. You inspire the people around you, at work and at home. My optimism workshop participants tell me they implement exercises right away, experience improvements at work and share what they learn with their families and friends. I hear optimism fundamentals in conversations with my own kids (now grown) and receive texts and calls from their friends who use my optimism exercises in their lives now. My positive influence to date, while meaningful, is on a small scale.
Whether you work with me or someone else, let's demonstrate courageous leadership. Let's cultivate higher levels of optimism and resilience in our workplaces. Let's help people cope successfully and hope appreciatively. What we need right now is a well-being uprising. Who's with me?
