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Course Description:
This interactive course explores how to adjust your own attitude as well as how to deal with negative people more effectively. 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.
Topics covered in the course include:
- 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
Target Student:This course is designed for the following students:
Business professionals interested in learning how to handle negative attitudes in the workplace and create a more positive working environment.
Prerequisites: Students should possess the following experience before attending the course:
Please check the course description to find prerequisite information.
Testimonials
This was the class I needed.
The instructor Jeff took his time and made sure we understood each topic before moving to the next. He answered all of our questions, and I don't know about the rest of the students, but was very pleased with this experience.
I finally understand how to use Excel.
-Amanda T (Yale New Haven Hospital).
Great class!
We were able to cover a lot of information in one day without getting overwhelmed.
-Maria R (Microsoft).
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