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title: Fostering Optimism in Your Team
description: Victor Perton says he best leaders are realistic and infectious optimists and lead their teams to discover greater optimism, resilience and self-mastery
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# [Fostering Optimism in Your Team](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/blog/fosteringoptimism)

 Written by [Victor Perton](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/blog/author/victor-perton) | Oct 16, 2022 7:11:42 AM

*by Victor Perton, Author of Optimism: The How and Why*

In our corporate and institutional work, we ask senior leaders to open up conversations right across the business on what makes the team members optimistic.   

Experiment:

- For the next meeting, you lead, add an item to the agenda - "What makes you Optimistic?"
- If you feel it needs it, add an explanatory note, "At its simplest, optimism is an expectation that good things will happen and that things will work out in the end."

- Go around the table asking each person what makes them optimistic. 

- Take your time, don’t rush. If someone doesn’t feel ready to express themselves, let them take a pass.

Try this again three months later.  Has the conversation changed?  Has it had an impact on your work and team interaction?

I recently had a businessman expressing frustration that the effect of his Monday morning pep talks to his sales team appeared to have worn off by Monday lunchtime. I suggested he change one of his Monday morning meetings to include an opening question from each of his sales-team expressing their case for optimism. It worked! He has made it a monthly ritual at sales meetings.

 

 

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