ONE IS AS GOOD AS ONE THINKS

ONE IS AS GOOD AS ONE THINKS

Shakespeare had said, „Nothing is good or bad; only thinking makes it so‟. Ones‟ thoughts mould ones‟ personality. In general, two types of thought processes are:

(1) Positive thought

These are:
 Positive self-recognition
 Identifying relationships with self and others
 Self-confidence

(2) Negative thoughts

These include:
 Negative self-recognition
 Crisis of relationship with self and others
 Non-assertive (submissive or aggressive) behaviour

Communication skills when measured along the dimension of negative thought, can become non-assertive in nature. Negative behaviours lead to low morale and lower inputs of employees on the one hand and low work output and low efficiency on the other.
It is thus of critical value to budding managers / leaders to ascertain their style of communication behaviour and to adapt more positive style.