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  • Home
  • Meet Kathy
  • Events
  • Work With Kathy
    • Design & Facilitate Powerful EDI Workshops
    • References
    • Workshops
      • Foundations of Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice
      • Creating Inclusive, Socially Just Campus Environments
      • Deepening Multicultural Competencies: Strategies for Professional Development
      • Training of Trainers Program to Design and Facilitate Workshops on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
      • Developing a Team of Inclusion Practitioners
      • Facilitating Difficult Dialogues: Navigating Triggering Events
      • White Ally Development Program
  • Resources
    • Free Courses/Webinars
    • Blog
    • Radio Show
    • Books
      • Leading White Accountability Groups
      • In It For The Long Haul
      • …But I’m Not Racist
      • Turn The Tide
        • Book Worksheets
    • Access to our Facilitation and Design Knowledge Base
  • Contact
  • Recent Clients
  • triggers, hot buttons, workplace conflict
    Hot Buttons,  Navigating triggers,  Professional Development,  workplace dynamics

    Workplace Conflict? How to Overcome Challenging Situations

    September 12, 2019 /

    Are you miserable at work? Fed up with workplace conflict that undermines morale and lowers productivity?   Frustrated because the same old issues keep pushing your buttons – and you find yourself reacting the same old way? I can almost hear the thundering chorus of “YES!” But guess what? You CAN overcome these problematic situations.   In what’s become one of my most popular courses, Navigating Difficult Situations in the Workplace, I help you recognize your hot buttons and show you how to better respond – and to de-escalate triggering situations as they happen. See what you’ll learn and register right here.   You won’t be hearing been-there, tried-that strategies…

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    Are your buttons getting pushed at work? Here’s a go-to guide packed with helpful tips.

    October 24, 2018
    Conflict in the workplace | Triggering Situations

    Know the Warning Signs You’ve Been Triggered to Navigate Difficult Situations.

    October 10, 2018
    triggers, workshop, session

    Effectively Closing An Emotionally Charged Session

    September 25, 2019
  • TAI talk | Office Dysfunction | Workplace conflict | Office politics
    Navigating triggers,  workplace dynamics

    Overcome Office Dysfunction

    September 8, 2017 /

    Here’s the truth: There ARE more effective ways to deal with frustration in the workplace – some simple tips can show you how and when to implement the tools necessary to transform negative workplace dynamics and office politics. Even though you can’t control people or situations, you can take charge of the way you respond. Reclaim YOUR power today… Ready to Change Your Response… and Change Your Results? Well… I’m showing you how it’s done and sharing examples in this recent TAI Talk video! Click PLAY to watch it NOW!   Are you tired of responding to triggering situations and workplace conflict in ways you later regret? Are you frustrated by…

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    Bullying in the Workplace: Had Enough?

    February 13, 2019
    triggers, workshop, session

    Effectively Closing An Emotionally Charged Session

    September 25, 2019
    Hot buttons | Triggers | Stress

    Identify Your Hot Buttons at Work to Respond More Effectively.

    August 22, 2018
  • Navigating triggers,  workplace dynamics

    Identify Your Hot Buttons to Effectively Navigate Workplace Conflict

    August 29, 2017 /

    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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    triggers, hot buttons, workplace conflict

    Workplace Conflict? How to Overcome Challenging Situations

    September 12, 2019
    Conflict in the workplace | Triggering Situations

    Know the Warning Signs You’ve Been Triggered to Navigate Difficult Situations.

    October 10, 2018
    Stress | Triggering Situations

    Stress Influences Our Reactions to Triggering Events

    September 26, 2018
  • Managing emotion at work | dealing with a difficult boss
    Navigating triggers,  workplace dynamics

    Change your response, transform your results

    August 23, 2017 /

    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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    Workplace Conflict? How to Overcome Challenging Situations

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    March 23, 2020

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    April 6, 2017

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