Who drains your team’s energy and optimism?

Hiring positive people is the great force multiplier for any organization.

Hiring positive people is the great force multiplier for any organization.

One, because they’re enjoyable to work with and their energy is infectious to the rest of the team.

And two, because positive people tend to be more solution oriented. They’re better at coping with the inevitable adversity of running a business. Their personalities are designed to flourish in the harsh soil of extreme uncertainty.

Imagine you run a small software company. The product market fit has been established, the user base has reached critical mass, and several industry publications have started to take notice of your brand.

But your employees are spread way too thin, each taking on the burden of two or three other roles that aren’t their primary responsibility.

Clearly, the time has come to hire a staff person to keep your house in order and free up the team to focus on their highest value activities.

Question is, whom would you rather have manage this process? Someone who brainstorms possible ways to fix the problem, or someone who gets stuck in the complaints of why the problem exist in the first place?

Someone who immediately underscores the upside of each situation, or someone who shoots down every idea in the suggestion box?

Positive people will win out every time. Not because their optimism increases the company’s success, but because their optimism increases the company’s field of vision, which allows the team to better notice the opportunities that lead to success.

Positive people find the solution that leads to the solution. Their mindset may not affect the outcome, but it does affect the experience.

In the business world where outcomes often elude us, improving the process is about the best you can ask for. That’s what makes positivity such a force multiplier. It amplifies effort, increases potential and probability of winning. It gives the company two feet to stand on so they can keep moving the story forward.

Remember, negativity keeps you focused on your problems, whereas positivity finds solutions to them.

If your team is in growth mode, filter out any job candidates who aren’t masters at saying yes to life.

Only hire people who decrease negativity by adding possibility.

LET ME ASK YA THIS…
Who drains your team’s energy and optimism?