subject: Leadership Success Strategies – Use the Big Picture Approach to Encourage Better Attitudes [print this page] The most successful leaders help employees make an attitude shift from the negative to the positive by focusing on the Big Picture. Leaders do this by showing employees how their individual performance fits into what the organization achieves as well as what the organization is trying to achieve.
Leaders know this approach works because they understand that employees want to feel that their contributions matter for more than the expected pay check or day off. Leaders also know that it is easy to use this approach because they understand that everything an employee does impacts someone or something within the organization.
To combat a "bad attitude," try these nine approaches:
Mention how an action taken by the employee had a positive impact on another employee.
Emphasize how something the employee is working on will benefit the team or staff in some way.
Explain how a problem that the employee solved benefited a customer.
Share how something that the employee did positively impacted you, the manager.
Describe how an upcoming workplace event fits in with the employee's goals or interests in some way.
Discuss how a future team, unit, or organization change will result in improvements that the employee has suggested.
Explain how a project the employee is working on will contribute to the achievement of a staff goal.
Describe a past situation where a task the employee performed had a positive impact in some area.
Describe how a future task of the employee will positively impact some area.
Change Attitudes By Emphasizing Positive Connections
As you see from the list above, it is easy to identify a Big Picture item. But if you want employees to embrace this as a viewpoint, you have to embrace it as well. You can do that by remembering to always emphasize the positive impact of employee contributions. This is the strategy successful leaders use every day to encourage more positive attitudes about many things. You can use it as well.
Leadership Success Strategies Use the Big Picture Approach to Encourage Better Attitudes
