You probably know that person on your team, the one who says, “Well, what about this?” or challenges every initiative. While sometimes frustrating, these team members, those with so-called “negative” traits like anxiety or pessimism can help make the entire group stronger. Learn about the positives of negative personality characteristics and how to utilize those traits to the fullest.
This webinar will discuss:
• Discuss research about workplaces with these types of traits
• Reframing emotions
• How negative traits can be a positive and positive ones a blind spot
• Having better meetings with naysayers
• Team-building ideas
Looking at the Glass Half Empty: The Positives of Negative Emotions
$25 per person for 4+registrations
Carrie Rogers-Whitehead is the founder of Digital Respons-Ability, a mission-based company that teaches digital citizenship to tens of thousands of parents, students, and educators across the world. Digital Respons-Ability’s products and services have been recognized internationally and they recently won a 2023 CODiES for “Best Digital Citizenship Solution.” Before her work with Digital Respons-Ability, Carrie worked for a decade in public libraries and continues to partner and work with libraries. Carrie regularly writes, speaks and researches on digital citizenship, parenting, technology, libraries and education. She is the award-winning author of seven books, including most recently: Deepening Digital Citizenship: a Guide to Systemwide Policy and Practice. Carrie lives with her family in Utah with a constant pile of books on her nightstand.
