Five tips for having a positive attitude at work: Avoid negative thinking and complaining. Spend time with people who have a positive attitude. Be thankful for your job. Give yourself a chance to recharge. Reward yourself for doing a good job.

1. The Power of Positive Attitude
By Dr. Kamala DN

2. Attitude
Attitude is a feeling or way of thinking that affects your
behaviour.
• It all starts with a positive attitude
• A positive attitude can be taught and learned

3. 1. Importance of Positive Attitude
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental
attitude from achieving his goal: nothing on earth can
help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
-Thomas Jefferson

4. 1. Importance of Positive Attitude
“ If you go into work feeling positive, your chances of
having success and being productive are much better
than if you go into it with a bad attitude.”

5. 1. Importance of Positive Attitude
Five tips for having a positive attitude at work:
• Avoid negative thinking and complaining.
• Spend time with people who have a positive attitude.
• Be thankful for your job.
• Give yourself a chance to recharge.
• Reward yourself for doing a good job.

6. 2.Keeping Your Focus
Five ways to keep your focus and maintain your good attitude:
• Get rid of distractions.
• Break up your work into blocks.
• Make lists.
• Stick to a routine.
• Stay organized.

7. 3.Doing Your Best
Five steps to always ensure you’re doing your best:
• Show initiative or responsibility in work situations
• Always try to improve your knowledge and skills
• Set reasonable goals and strive to meet them
• Work with your supervisor to create both short- and long-
term goals for yourself
• Avoid taking shortcuts or the easy way out

8. 4. Responding to Guidance & Direction
Tips for accepting and responding to guidance:
• Follow procedures or steps you should take to do things
• Ask for help, directions and instructions
• Accept advice and constructive criticism
• Acknowledge or recognize experience and skill or knowledge
• Handle negative criticism politely

9. 5. Controlling Your Emotions
“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control
your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you
will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master
you.”- Brian Tracy
It can be difficult to control your emotions, especially when you
feel strongly about a certain issue.

10. 5.Controlling Your Emotions
Techniques will help you to control your emotions in the
workplace:
• Stay calm
• Practice using good communication
• Learn to make constructive suggestions
• Think before you speak or act
• Write down your emotions

11. 6. Being Flexible
As long as you have a flexible attitude, you will have no problem
accepting the different changes that each new day brings
Keys to keep in mind in order to be flexible:
• Be willing to do extra work
• Accept that you might get thrown off your routine
• Learn to balance your own needs with those of others
• Work beyond your title
• Get back on track

12. Thank you