As a manager, try and encourage your staff to avoid negative self-talk. You can set little challenges for them. It would help if you could find a course on positive self-talk or have your training develop and present one.
When you're trying to develop a habit of positive inner dialogue there is an aspect of human psychology which can help. Trying to break an established habit is a very difficult thing. But trying to instil a new thing can be surprisingly simple. The first time you do it, it seems very strange and new, simply because it is. The second time is easier and by the fourth time it feels as though you've been doing it forever. Don't necessarily try to stop negative inner dialogue. However, try to get into the habit of switching to positive self-talk instead; this is much easier. We seem to have this inbuilt tendency to develop habits, so that we can devote our time to more important or urgent matters. Use it to your advantage.
By teaching this to others you can help improve performance and at least lighten existence a bit for those faced with a boring job. Life is what you make of it, and changing your inner dialogue can help to make you a happier and more productive person. Why not help others do the same?After all, any job has a fair proportion of routine tasks. One of the objectives of good managers is to convert as much into routine as possible, so that it takes up less management time and work flows smoothly and predictably, but this does make those tasks more tedious. So even here you can help lighten the load.
(continued from part I)
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