Lately, I’ve been trying with myself and my team to make things positive.  Often you’ll hear team members start sentences with things like:

• We shouldn’t rely on e-mail to communicate.
• We don’t communicate enough.
• You didn’t tell the team what was happening.

When you ask them what are they doing, you get the positive.  For example:

• We will have face to face conversations as much as possible.
• We will over communicate and find the right balance.
• We will keep each other informed.

Besides sounding better it feels better.  Here are some of my own:

• Instead of “doubting”, I’m BELIEVING
• Instead of closed-off, I’m open
• Instead of scared, I’m trusting