DAY 1 - POSITIVE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE

Welcome to Day 1 of The Positive Leadership Challenge! Over the next 7 days I'll share daily lessons with actions you can take to become a more positive, effective leader. To get started, it's important that we address the foundation. Read on below. If you prefer to watch video of this and other daily lessons, you can here. 

WHY POSITIVE LEADERSHIP MATTERS

It takes a lot of work to create a world-class organization. It’s hard to develop a successful team. It’s not easy to build a great culture. It’s challenging to work toward a vision and create a positive future. It’s difficult to change the world.

As a leader (which we all are because we all have influence), you will face all kinds of challenges, adversity, negativity, and tests. There will be times when it seems as if everything in the world is conspiring against you. There will be moments you’ll want to give up.

There will be days when your vision seems more like a fantasy than a reality. That’s why positive leadership is so essential.

When some people hear the term positive leadership they roll their eyes because they think I’m talking about Pollyanna positivity, where life is full of unicorns and rainbows. But the truth is that we are not positive because life is easy. We are positive because life can be hard.

Positive leadership is not about fake positivity. It is the real stuff that makes great leaders great. Pessimists don’t change the world. Critics write words but they don’t write the future.

Naysayers talk about problems but they don’t solve them. Throughout history we see that it’s the optimists, the believers, the dreamers, the doers, and the positive leaders who change the world.

The future belongs to those who believe in it and have the belief, resilience, positivity, and optimism to overcome all the challenges in order to create it.

That’s why positive leadership matters because positive leaders change the world for good!

LEADER TOOL

Download and read this Cost of Negativity / Benefits of Positivity Poster.

TAKE ACTION

Today, reach out to one positive leader you've had in your life and thank them for their leadership.

Tomorrow we'll dive deeper into principles from our proven positive leadership framework and how you can apply them for results.

-Jon