Your Attitutde Affects Your Performance

For some, this might be a statement of the blindingly obvious, but I think it is an important point to make.

My attitutde at the current time is based upon a range of external influences such as my relationships with my colleagues, clients, friends and family. It is also influenced by some internal influences, such as my energy levels and levels of confidence.

Now, my current attitude is based on the combination of these (and other) internal and external influences, and this attitude affects my performance. Obviously, as the influences change (perhaps after a good nights sleep, or receipt of some good news) so does my attitude and in turn my performance.

When you are the manager or leader of a change programme, the attitude you have makes a significant difference to the performance of your team and therefore the success they achieve.

Being aware of the affect external and internal influences have on you is an important step to maintaining an appropriate attitude - which in turn is essential to the success of your team in leading change - and the bigger the change, the more the attitude of the leaders affects the result.

Several development processes exist to assist leaders of change to manage the effect influences have on them - and these include NLP and Emotional Intelligence - and for further information please feel free to contact me about them.