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Do Your Employees Need a Kick in the Attitude?
February 09, 2010
Physically abusing your employees isn't recommended, but they may need a swift kick in the attitude, one workforce management expert says.
With an uncertain economy and job insecurity, Sam Glenn, author of "A Kick in the Attitude: An Energizing Approach to Recharge Your Work, Team and Life," urges people to look at something they can control—their attitude.
"Attitude is the one thing we can choose," says Glenn. "And our attitude has the power to change everything else around us. Why not choose to go positive in 2010?"
Glenn says he knows what it means to persevere through hardship, as he was once broke, depressed, working night jobs as a janitor, and sleeping on the borrowed floor space of friends and family, until his life changed when a friend told him, "Sam, you don't have a hard-knock life problem. You have an attitude problem."
The author says he got busy investing in his attitude, and within two years, was speaking for crowds of 75,000. Glenn says he took his passion about attitude, and founded EverythingAttitude.com, a motivational resource company that publishes Attitude Digest magazine. He says he now gives up to 100 speeches per year.
Glenn likens attitude to a battery, which needs to stay charged to function. Change, loss, and unexpected adversity can deplete attitude and corporate morale. He says he believes it is crucial to develop an "Attitude Jumper Cable Kit," to recharge one's attitude and keep it charged.
"We take a shower every day, recharge our cell phone every day," says Glenn, "but how often do we invest in our attitude?"
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