4 Ways to Defuse Your Anger Before It Blows Up Your Career
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1. Pause for the headline. - The single most effective way to manage anger is pausing before responding. During that pregnant pause force yourself to imagine your next sentence plastered on the front page of the New York Times. Is that a headline you would be proud to share with your loved ones, religious friends, someone you admire or a roomful of elementary students on career day? If not, don't say it.
2. Talk to grandma. - Envision you're talking to someone whom you want never to hurt. Pretend it's your loving grandmother, your innocent child or a respected mentor that you're addressing. Think about the impact that your angry words would have on that imagined individual and your relationship with them. Try to transfer that insight and understanding to actual individual in front of you who's ticking you off. Forget for a moment that they're an employee and remember they are a human with inherent value and worth. If not, why are they working for you?
3. Grab the egg timer. - One executive I worked for always brought a three-minute egg timer to his leadership team meetings. If there was a report or update from somebody around the table that angered him, he would set the egg timer for three minutes before he began talking in a calm, moderated tone.
4. Tap your inner. - While the annoying ubiquity of the mega-hit song "Let It Go" sung by the lead character Elsa in the Disney movie Frozen may have been anger-inducing a few years ago, there is a powerful message in those three words -- let it go. After you make your point to a subordinate or colleague, don't belabor it further.
Make sure there is mutual understanding regarding the situation and how it will be handled going forward and then -- let it go.
Source: Entrepreneur
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