Selecting the company we keep and the environments in which we exist is a fundamental step in achieving this.
It seems unbelievable, but the more challenging your days are, Galen the stronger you are and the more you would be willing to go against the wall or obstacle that stops you...every place you find yourself will serve you to learn, and every circumstance to grow with the herd in the environment (your work team), in which you become motivator and booster for your people, the plus to identify what is not working in the team... I call it my needs' detector.
Not everyone is always negatively impacted by negative people around them, some have the ability to rise above it, however it's certainly not a situation conducive to positive growth.
It is good to apply group dynamics to detect what works and what does not in my experience has always worked to detect training needs, and learn, to strengthen the weaknesses in order to improve the business at least in the oil and petrochemical culture given good results Galen is only a suggestion for in practice what is in accordance with the corporate style in attention to human talent...what I call a professional profile according to the context...just thinking about it!.