To me, attitude is the way that you respond to a situation presented to you. It is a representation of how you feel about something, and this can be a very positive reaction or a very negative one. Attitude is the one thing that can either keep you pushing through tough times or falling faster and faster into failure.
How does attitude affect your leadership?
Attitude affects your leadership in many ways. One of the most important ways it impacts your leadership is because it is contagious and rubs off on the people that you are around. It can motivate them or bring them down, and this impacts leadership in a huge way because it determines the will that your followers will have.
We talked about the following points about attitude. Explain each one as it pertains to your own leadership...
-Your attitude is a choice
-Your attitude determines your actions
-Your people are a mirror of your attitude
The first point, your attitude is a choice, pertains to my leadership because I have the power to choose how I want to react to something. There are days when I feel like I want to improve and show everyone what I can do, but there are also days when I just want to be done with everything. I have the choice to either keep a positive attitude and make others around me better, or I can slouch around and go with the flow of things. Attitude is a choice, and hopefully I and other people will learn that the positive attitude is the best one to have because it is what keeps you motivated and keeps you pushing to your potential.
Your attitude definitely determines your actions. In my own leadership experiences, I know that if I have a positive attitude and an attitude that leads me to play at the top of my game, that will take me to where I want to be, which is giving it my all 100% of the time. An attitude can either motivate you to be the best player, or it can make you lazy, feel frustrated with yourself, etc. until it is too much to bear and you feel like you want to give up.
Also, your people are a mirror of your attitude. As a leader, I have come to learn that your teammates do what you do, even if you might not think so. For example, this past volleyball season for club, we sometimes had energy issues when we were playing. We would seem dead on the court, not having any fun, not talking to each other, not moving around. I was to the point of frustration beyond control, and I learned that to be a leader you must lead by example and that your followers do what you do, for the most part. I tested it out at the next practice, having high energy all the time and keeping a positive attitude. It was a great practice and everyone said they had a great time. I learned that if you as a leader can keep a good attitude, it will bring everyone else's attitudes up with it. This is essential for leadership.
Respond to the following quote by Victor Frankl, author of Man's Search for Meaning...
"The last of our human freedoms is to choose our attitude in any given circumstances."
This book is about a man that lived during the Holocaust in the concentration camps and fought hard to survive. The book focuses mainly on how he believes his attitude was what got him through those tough times. To me, this quote means that no matter what situation you are in, whether you are having a great time or being tortured in a concentration camp, you have the power to control your attitude and make the situation better or worse. Your outlook on a situation can change your reactions and therefore either get you through those difficulties or ruin your chances.
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