This week Fernando Abadía Hernández gives us an interview that he has just published Your attitude is your master key (Editorial Management 2000). Abadía has a degree in Chemical Sciences from the University of Córdoba and an Executive MBA and Master in Marketing Management. Founder and General Director of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Talent, worked in several pharmaceutical multinationals. He is also the author of the book The talent of leaders (Red Circle). GINÉS J. VERA
Nos introduce a Elena, a fictional character, in two moments of this Your attitude is your master key. From an illustrative example with her, tells us that many people, because of his attitude, suffer from social isolation, work and emotional. It helps me to ask you precisely about the consequences of not knowing how to manage a positive attitude in life..
The consequences can be very diverse, depending on each person, what is your character, of the importance you give to relationships with others, to your work, etc. What is common in all people who continually adopt a negative attitude is that they are not happy.. You just have to be a little observant and pay attention to what is happening around you.. In many people, This unhappiness is very evident while in others it goes inside. A positive attitude is like a massage that comforts you and makes nothing hurt., while a negative attitude is like having a permanent contracture. At the same time, This discomfort is projected onto others and that area of emotional noise begins to generate that is not pleasant for anyone.. Many people end up feeling alone, like Elena.
To address the effective management of our attitude, he proposes a fairly simple method divided into four areas.: positivity, the proactivity, commitment and sociability. Everything and that each of these in turn is integrated by other personal skills, Tell us how you came to the conclusion that these four areas are the most important., perhaps based on your experience over the years.
Of course, my conclusions come from my own experience. Attitude has many facets. I wanted to focus on four that I consider essential to be successful in the professional field.: positivity, proactivity, commitment and sociability. There are other very important aspects that help to be successful, such as the ability to adapt to changes and the ability to solve problems, but these fit more in the field of skills and competencies than in attitude.. The attitude emanates from your desire, of your intention and your behaviors. Skills or competencies are acquired thanks to having adopted the appropriate attitude. They are a consequence.
Curiously, among the proposals that he throws at us with this book, there are not only the concepts, It also encourages us to take pencil and paper to do a personal practical exercise analyzing our attitude and our commitment to changing this situation.. Tell us what you call “pass the antivirus” facing the awareness of our attitude.
Routine prevents us from stopping to think, and that is the main enemy to adopting the best attitude at all times. Thus, I think it is important to put homework on oneself and analyze, at least once a day, what we have done and how we have done it. To analyze our attitude we must focus on the hows. That's passing the antivirus. If we are not satisfied with something, we must write it down and analyze the consequences of doing it the way we have done it and those that would have had if we had done it differently.. For someone who has never done this self-analysis exercise, I recommend that you take some time to sit down and grab a piece of paper and a pen.. After a short time it will become automatic. The goal is for this healthy practice to become a habit..
