Navigating triggers
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Identify Your Hot Buttons to Effectively Navigate Workplace Conflict
Finding yourself frustrated with coworkers, managers, or employees? If you feel that your ‘hot buttons’ are being pushed at work and you’re ready to take action and gain some tools to navigate these situations of office politics and workplace conflict, keep reading… You’re leading an important meeting or making a presentation when someone interrupts you and takes over. A key project deadline is missed when someone drops the ball and doesn’t follow through on what he promised to deliver. While talking one-on-one with a direct report, she seems distracted – continually checking her phone and scrolling through messages. Sound familiar? People often share these and similar challenging workplace situations with…
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Change your response, transform your results
I don’t know about you, but stories have always helped me take a concept and really experience it… digest it… learn from it. That said, I’d like to share a story with you about a client of mine who had to deal with a difficult workplace situation that I know you’ll be able to relate to. I shared the whole story and a lot more on workplace triggers and emotions when I gave a TAI talk recently, and you can watch the entire video here. Julie Before: In an Emotionally Triggering Situation Julie told me that she’d been really anxious and had been carefully preparing to attend a presentation in…
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Triggered? Take control and choose how you respond – don’t just react
Triggering events occur when we react unexpectedly and/or intensely to an internal or external circumstance or “trigger.” This happens to us all. The “trigger” itself can be just about anything – a colleague says something offensive; a participant in a meeting makes snarky comments; you read an inflammatory post on social media; a family member pushes your buttons at a gathering when you’re already stressed… All too often, we react unconsciously on automatic pilot – and do or say things we later regret. Instead, we can learn the tools to identify and interrupt the cycle of events that happen when we’re triggered – keep reading for more ideas and tools!…
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Increase Your Effectiveness: Pointers to Help You Navigate Challenging Situations
In a recent post, I talked briefly about what to do when you encounter a challenging situation. Now, I’m going deeper into this topic with pointers to help you respond more effectively. Have you ever felt… -a wave of emotion come over you that you weren’t expecting? -knocked off your game? -like your buttons are being pushed? -angry, scared, nervous, embarrassed or excited to the point where you couldn’t think straight? These are all what I call triggering moments. In response, you may say or do something you really wished you hadn’t. Triggers aren’t always negative… You’re prepping for a party when the doorbell rings. You feel awash with…
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What To Do When Your Buttons Get Pushed: Tools To Help You Respond In Difficult Situations
Tell me if this sounds familiar. You’re at work when someone says something that rubs you the wrong way. It takes you off guard. Now you’re hooked…and before you realize it, you’ve said something you know you’re going to regret later on. Who hasn’t encountered a situation like this? I know I have, many times. Rise Above… In an interview with Liz Wolfe, a breakthrough coach for entrepreneurs, we talked about my book Turn the Tide: Rise Above Toxic, Difficult Situations in the Workplace. Really, this book goes beyond difficult situations in the workplace – I wanted to reach a broad audience because we all encounter tough situations – at…
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Navigating Triggers
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