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Neither naive optimism nor magical thinking: professional positivity is a measurable cognitive ability that supports problem solving and team resilience.
Positivity is the ability to maintain an encouraging and solution-oriented attitude, to value successes and to give feedback that builds trust and motivation.
It differs from naive optimism, which minimises warning signals and leads to dangerous decisions: positivity sees opportunities at the same time as it recognises obstacles. It also differs from positive thinking, which produces phrases without changing action. Concretely, it is the person who, after a project's failure, brings the team back to what remains achievable rather than organising a search for the culprit.
Like all Core Skills, it is not a personality trait but a trainable cognitive ability, which rests on identifiable mechanisms and expresses itself in observable professional behaviours.
What kinds of tasks: team facilitation, change management, annual feedback, commercial follow-up after a refusal.
In which contexts: reorganisation, stalled project, string of failures (when morale decides what comes next).
At what level of mastery: bringing a team back into action after a setback, without denying the difficulty.
Positivity belongs to the Leadership & Collaboration family of our framework of 18 soft skills (Rising Up Core Skills).
In a professional environment exposed to change, positivity is a measurable driver of performance:
In times of change, a team's morale weighs as much as the quality of the plan: positivity is what keeps it turned towards action when results are slow to come.
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In hiring, measuring positivity in advance detects candidates able to drive collective momentum without falling into naive optimism or defeatism.
Institutions that certify positivity strengthen the employability of their graduates in management, sales, training and HR.
This soft skill is embedded in our development paths and certifying assessments at Rising Up.
Book a demoIn organisations going through deep transformations, technical expertise does not guarantee that talents will sustain their energy and drive their teams. The Rising Up Soft Skills Scan objectively measures the positivity of your talents to identify profiles capable of seeing opportunities where others freeze. The result: better resilience, a solution-oriented culture and stronger engagement in periods of change. This competency is particularly important for managers, sales professionals, trainers, HR directors and heads of pedagogy.
CV and interview no longer suffice to distinguish real measurable positivity from circumstantial energy. The Rising Up Soft Skills Scan measures positivity before the interview through several contextualised evaluation methods, and gives you actionable behavioural data. You gain an objective behavioural signal to limit the risk of a bad hire on managerial and commercial roles. This competency is particularly important for managers, sales professionals, trainers, HR directors and heads of pedagogy.
Employers in management, sales and HR fields expect graduates to be able to drive team momentum in the face of setbacks, an ability rarely measured objectively in traditional curricula. The Rising Up Soft Skills Scan measures this competency, develops your students through the Soft Skills Enrichment programme, then certifies their level at the end of the curriculum. You strengthen graduate employability. This competency is particularly important for managers, sales professionals, trainers, HR directors and heads of pedagogy.
Through the Rising Up Soft Skills Scan, positivity is measured scientifically on a 0-100 scale, using different evaluation methods, from situational exercises to contextualized questionnaires, calibrated by our scientific team, led by Dr Nawal Abboub (PhD in cognitive science, lecturer at ENS-PSL, co-founder of Rising Up), in collaboration with researchers from the CNRS, ENS-PSL and Université Paris Cité.
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Then, the modules of the Soft Skills Enrichment programme allow you to improve this skill through reframing challenges, realistic simulations and reflections guided by our proprietary CoreSkills AI.
Naive optimism ignores warning signs and minimises real obstacles: it is a denial that can lead to dangerous decisions. Positivity is different: it sees opportunities at the same time as it acknowledges obstacles, and directs action toward what can be done.
A positive person stays lucid about difficulties but actively looks for levers. A naive person turns a blind eye. Rising Up measures lucid positivity, not naive optimism.
Yes. Cognitive science and positive psychology research show that positivity is a trainable competency at any age through practising cognitive reframing, structured gratitude and action orientation.
Our Soft Skills Enrichment programme offers exercises to develop positivity, with AI-based progress tracking through CoreSkills AI.
Declaring yourself positive is very easy; being so in the face of a setback is harder.
The Rising Up Soft Skills Scan evaluates positivity by combining situational exercises and contextualized questionnaires where the candidate must react to criticism, failure or blockage. It is the in-context response that is scored, never an abstract self-assessment.
Both exist, but Rising Up measures the competency. There is a temperament base (some people are naturally more positive), but effective positivity in professional context is a set of trainable behaviours: reframing a criticism, turning an obstacle into a lever, orienting a team toward action.
behavioural skills predict professional success, contribute to it causally, and can be developed (research by James Heckman, Nobel laureate in economics). Positivity is a competency, it can be measured and developed.
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