Attitudes in Human Relations

An attitude is a strong belief or feeling toward people, things, and situations. You have favorable, or positive, attitudes and unfavorable, or negative, attitudes about life, human relations, work, school, and everything else. Attitudes are not quick judgments we change easily but you can change your attitudes. People interpret your attitudes by your behavior.

Attitudes are developed primarily through experiences. As you developed from childhood to adulthood, you interacted with parents, family, teachers, friends, employees, and managers. From all these people, you develop your attitudes.

Through the positive expectations of others, people increase their level of performance. Unfortunately, many managers tend to stereotype and see what they expect to see: low performance. And their employees see and do as the managers expect. We all need to expect and treat people as though they are high achievers to get the best from them.

Although others’ attitudes can affect your behavior, human relations, and performance, you are responsible for your own actions. Try to ignore negative comments and stay away from people with negative attitudes. Focus on the positives. If you are stuck in an unpleasant situation that you can’t change, having a poor negative attitude will only make the situation more unpleasant. You can choose to be and learn to be either optimistic or pessimistic.

You can choose to have a positive attitude and be happier and get more out of life.