Identify Potentially Bad Attitudes A positive approach represents a willingness to accept developmental feedback, to try

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Identify Potentially Bad Attitudes A positive approachrepresents a willingness to accept developmental feedback, to tryand suggest new ideas, and to maintain a positive attitude at work.Maintaining a positive approach can be a difficult task formanagers—it is easy for managers to allow negative attitudes andbehaviors to get the best of them during difficult times at work.This activity is important because a knowledge of potentially badattitudes helps managers to recognize and replace these attitudesand behaviors with more positive ones. The goal of this activity isto challenge your knowledge of potentially bad attitudes that canderail a positive approach. For each person, determine whichpotentially bad attitude his or her behavior best exemplifies. If aperson’s behavior does not characterize a bad attitude, select“Does not represent a bad attitude.”
1. When Caleb wants to express discontent about something atwork, he goes around having conversations with coworkers and triesto manipulate them into saying things that he can then use tosupport his position. Entangler
2. Lily always immediately RSVPs to departmental social eventswith a “no.” Porcupine
3. Natalia describes her personality as highly agreeable. Doesnot represent a bad attitude
4. William doesn’t take personal responsibility when things goawry for the team he leads. Instead he always attributesresponsibility for failures to his team members. Blamer
5. If you want to know of any potential holes in your idea, justask Sami. He loves to tell people all the reasons their ideas won’twork. Complainer
6. Maya makes a gagging motion whenever lower-level coworkersoffer ideas in meetings. Stink bomb thrower
7. Yusuf likes to focus on generating solutions to problemsinstead of dwelling on issues. Does not represent a badattitude
8. Emmanuel is very good at pointing out things that aren’tworking but doesn’t make an effort to offer ideas for how to fixthem. Complainer
9. Isabel has been described by coworkers as antagonisticbecause she finds a way to turn any discussion into a dispute.Debater
10. Kendrick looks down toward the ground or runs in the otherdirection whenever he passes by colleagues in the hallway. (Clickto select)
11. All of Xuan’s subordinates view her as a very approachablemanager. (Click to select)
12. Lamar is willing to stand his ground when he feels stronglyabout an issue. (Click to select)
13. People generally don’t like having Dean in departmentmeetings because he seems to disagree in discussions purely for thesake of disagreeing. (Click to select)
14. Austin often says provocative things under his breath, justloud enough so that some of his coworkers hear it and get upsetabout it. (Click to select)
15. Jackie has an axe to grind with Milo from way back. This isobvious any time there’s an issue at work and Jackie finds a way tospin it as being Milo’s fault. (Click to select)
16. Alejandra will grumble about something she’s unhappy with atwork for as long as it takes to get people to acknowledge her.Debater