The Mood Hoover

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Alison Young, the programme leader on behalf of TDA - a collaboration between local businesses Jacobs, Atkins and Westinghouse Electric Company - said: “The schools put into practice what they have learned during the programme, and each and every one of them was amazing. As a representative of a research and development company, I have never looked at a failed trial as a negative because you are never going to get it right the first time. Rather I view it as a positive and a step closer to finding the solution. Find your own way(s) of relaxing and being happy. This could be through mindfulness, yoga, watching a film/TV programme, taking part in a hobby, or even just talking to friends and/or family members. If you think there may be a mood hoover in your place of work then there are some typical behavioural patterns that you can look out for. All of these things are completely natural and can be things that we’re all occasionally guilty of, especially if you’re having a bad day but mood hoovers will take them to the extreme. the room, leaving it full of desolation and despair, and more importantly, leaving you in dire need

We were also listening to music during dramatization – we used this city chatter video + vacuum cleaner sounds when the boy vacuums.

I know it's shit & hard, and he'll go on the defensive but if you're not leaving you it's worth at least trying to tell him how shit you find his behaviour.

It’s natural to try and ignore someones bad behaviour, hoping they are just having a bad day. It can be very difficult to approach someone and comment on how they make you feel, especially if they are a friend of family member. If you choose to ignore it, you need to perfect the ability to switch them off when they start to drain you. It’s the only way to not let them get to you. Challenge If, for example, your mood hoover continues to make negative comments during or after a team brief, this allows an inroad for a more focused but still informal conversation at a 1-2-1 about this and what’s behind it – try asking ‘why do they feel like this’ and ‘what impact do they think this has on those around them?’ We chose to include our own ‘mood hoover’ Dusty as a bit of fun but the meaning behind feeding somebody with your own positive ideas and positive thinking to benefit you and those around you is a very powerful one.” It was an honour to be invited to get involved in the programme and help create Dusty as it is important to teach people from a young age how having a positive mindset can provide such a benefit to their daily lives and school work.”If your difficult employee or ‘mood hoover’ is already amongst the workforce. then it’s time to ensure the following; What are you waiting for? Take the leap of faith. Make the Change. Not tomorrow. Not next week, but NOW.

Counteract them. Challenge their behaviour calmly but surely. Be the ying to their yang, the Pepsi to their Coke, or the Blur to their Oasis. If they are negative, be positive. If they say something can’t be done, ask them how it can be. If they ask why, ask them why not? If they complain about their job, ask them why they don’t find something more suitable. With no outstanding issues of any merit to excuse mood-hoovering behaviour then it really becomes important to manage this fairly but firmly. If informal approaches haven’t worked, it will be time for the formal approach using the business’s disciplinary or possibly capability procedures. The structure of these procedures and how they are followed are crucial to ensuring an employer is able to resolve the issue with minimal risk of related claims. My DH has moods - I know exactly what you mean about the mood hoover, you can feel the change in the weather. I must stress again about how this article is from my own opinion; it is completely subjective, and so is the situations it focuses on, but I’m sure most people have been in situations where another person’s mood has influenced on their own, for the worse. Being aware of such an occurrence may be all that is needed to allow a person to then make sure they don’t allow their mood to change so much, or be moulded to the other person’s, but this is also subjective. Whether a person ignores the way another person influences them or not depends on their own stance within the relationship; whether they believe it is possible to challenge a person’s way of social interaction. But, hopefully this article has allowed people to reflect on such interactions and understand that if they don’t challenge it, it is at least important to make sure your own mood is affected, overall, in as little way as possible. Focusing on staying positive in a life where there may be many people who come in and challenge it can be tough, but by being aware of our own personal ways of doing this can allow for us to not be as affected by other people’s moods. However, I hope this article also shows that the people we call mood hoovers are quite possibly people who need to be listened to and who may need to talk about why they are so negative. Perhaps challenging their behaviour is a good thing for the affected person, but getting to the root cause of such behaviour, I’m sure, will also be more beneficial in the long run.I’m incredibly proud of the programme and what we have achieved so far. I’m really looking forward to seeing what the future holds for Brilliant Cumbria as we have secured funding for more schools to join so I’m super excited.” We’ve had to adapt to an unprecedented amount of change. The last-minute announcements of government decisions and changes in policy have only added to the stress for leaders and those working in education. There’s certainly been a lot to moan about. The Unbelievable Hugely Great Gala was a showpiece event for the Brilliant Cumbria which has been running among six schools in the area: Whitehaven Academy, Dean School, Jericho School, Monkwray School, Valley School and St Begh’s School.