How Negativity Impacts a Workplace

How Positivity Impacts a Workplace

Whether you are new to the workplace or a seasoned employee, problems occur at work.

The following are some workplace challenges and how to deal with them.

How do you embrace team cooperation skills in the workplace?

For an organization to run smoothly and meet its goals, it is important to foster a work environment that supports collaboration amongst colleagues. Unfortunately for most organizations, team cooperation does not occur naturally. Thus you must make an effort and take steps to help build and sustain a cooperative work environment.

Team cooperation in the workplace can mean many things. It involves the level at which employees participate in decision-making, how management and employees work together to resolve problems, and how all levels of the organization work together to achieve common goals.

There are many activities and steps that the leadership – along with the employees – can take to help improve cooperation skills in the workplace.

1. Teamwork must become part of your workplace culture

For coworkers to successfully collaborate, the leadership within the organization must work to make collaboration one of the key values of the enterprise. Employees must see that the leadership within the firm works together as a team to accomplish goals. Also, the company’s leadership must award teams publicly when they are successful at working together to achieve their objectives.

To truly improve cooperation skills, leaders must provide an environment where employees are not afraid to share their ideas. Leaders must create a culture where the exchange of ideas is encouraged and rewarded. Teamwork and collaboration must be a central theme of the mission statement to improve team cooperation.

2. Provide teams with the resources they need to work together

To make improvements with communication, the organization must provide the necessary resources to the teams. This includes comfortable work spaces where the teams can work together. If the teams are spread out amongst different locations, then the organization must provide the resources that allow the teams to work together remotely, such as video conferencing.

How to Cultivate Positivity

When we describe the things around us, we often make comparisons. For example, a lion is a big cat. When we see a rhino sitting next to a lion, we might say that the rhino is bigger than the lion due to its size. Later on during our safari, we see an elephant, and we know that it is the biggest animal we are likely to see due to its massive size.

If you’re the king of the grammar jungle, you already know that we use adjectives like the words big, bigger, and biggest to modify and describe nouns and pronouns. When we make comparisons, we use special types of adjectives called comparative adjectives and superlative adjectives. But what is the difference between these two? Is one better than the other? And which kind of adjective is best to use in our sentences? We can’t settle this adjective popularity contest right now but we can compare these two types of adjectives to learn when and how to use them.

Comparative adjective vs. superlative adjective

Both comparative adjectives and superlative adjectives are formed from the positive form of an adjective (the “basic” form you’ll see if you look up an adjective in our amazing dictionary). In general, comparative adjectives end in -er or use the words more or less, while superlative adjectives end in -est or use the words most and least. For example, smaller is a comparative adjective and smallest is a superlative adjective. As another example, more determined is a comparative adjective and most determined is a superlative adjective.

Both of these types of adjectives are used in comparisons of people and/or things. Comparative adjectives are used to compare two people or things and superlative adjectives are used to compare more than two people or things. For example:

• My house is bigger than her house. (comparing two things)
• Out of the 30 houses in the neighborhood, Reginald’s is the biggest. (comparing more than two things)
• Maya is younger than Ben. (comparing two people)
• Maya is the youngest student in the class of 20. (comparing more than two people)

We will explore more specific ways that we use comparative and superlative adjectives in the PPT, but this is the main difference to keep in mind between these two types of adjectives.

 1. Alors que ...

     2. Tu es différent de toute autre personne ...

     3. Nous sommes différentes de vous ...

a) UNLIKE = Différemment de,  contrairement à …

ex: He never interrupts people when they speak, unlike his opponent.=  Il n’interrompt jamais les gens qui parlent, contrairement à son opposant …

b) CONTRARY TO + NOM abstrait ou pronom WHAT :

ex: He wasn’t born in Paris, contrary to what he declared… =  Il n’est pas né à Paris, contrairement à ce qu’il a déclaré …

c) WHEREAS + proposition = contraste. Opposition entre les actions exprimées au sujet de deux personnes, deux faits, ou deux idées –

ex: I love meat and fish whereas my sister is a vegetarian! = J’adore la viande et le poisson alors que ma sœur est végétarienne !

ex: In a village, everybody knows everyone, whereas in NYC, you can go unnoticed! = Dans un village, tout le monde se connaît, alors qu'à New YorK, on peut passer inaperçu !

d)  INSTEAD OF + Nom OU Gérondif ou adj possessif:

ex: I’m sorry, he watched TV instead of doing his homework! =Je suis désolé ! Il a regardé la TV au lieu de faire ses devoirs !

e) ON THE CONTRARY  - DIFFERENT FROM ; adj OPPOSITE

ex: Yes! They’re twins, but Paul really insists on being different from Jim! = Oui, ils sont jumeaux, mais Paul insiste pour être différent de Jim! (‘different… than’ fréquemment entendu aux USA)

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