Jon Gordon’s Blog | Developing Positive Leaders, Organizations and Teams

Welcome!

Welcome to the first post on my blog! I hope to use this forum as a way to continue to communicate and share with you. This blog will not replace my
regular weekly email tip, it will serve in addition to it.

I’m sure you realize that positive energy is a term being talked about a lot more frequently in conference rooms, class rooms, locker rooms and even living rooms. Perhaps it’s because there is an abundance of new research that shows that positive people, positive communication, positive interactions and positive work and team cultures produce positive results.

Or perhaps at a deeper level we all know that every person, every career, every company, every organization, every family, and every team will have to overcome negativity, adversity, and challenges to define themselves and create success. No one goes through life untested and the answer to these tests is positive energy. Not the rah, rah, motivational, cheering kind of positive energy, although there certainly is a time and place for that as well. But rather optimism, trust, enthusiasm, love, purpose, joy, passion and spirit to live, work and perform at a higher level; to build and lead successful teams; to overcome adversity in life and at work; to share contagious energy with employees, colleagues and customers; to bring out the best in others and in yourself; and to overcome all the negative people (I call energy vampires) and negative situations that threaten to sabotage your health, family, team and success. Positive Energy is very real and we know it makes a difference.

I look forward to sharing more with you and invite you to be an active participant by sharing your comments to my post.