By Steve Tobak Why can’t we all just get along? Because we can’t. Welcome to the Petrie dish of human dysfunction called planet Earth. And yes, you really are welcome. Misery loves company. Conflict is as natural for people as it is for animals. As long as territory, food, mates, and in the case of …
Category Archive: Anger Management
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Apr 02 2012
Stress, plane and simple
By Diane Stafford After a few workplace violence events in mail centres, “going postal” entered the lexicon. This week, thanks to a widely shared newspaper headline about the inflight meltdown of a JetBlue pilot, we got: “This is your captain freaking.” Though not particularly fair or nice, the shorthand descriptions of workplace outbursts are here …
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Feb 15 2012
Conflict Management: Understanding Anger and the Brain
By Carol Fredrickson, Violence-Free.com Conflict in the workplace is an ever-growing issue and more and more of my clients are requesting programs on Managing Angry People, Angry Patients, Angry Guests, etc. The one question I’m asked most often after one of these presentations is, “Is it possible that when I’m really angry, my brain just …
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Nov 23 2011
Profanity in the Workplace, How Much is Too Much?
By Joy Lambert, abc24.com Melrose coaches got in trouble for it, a Collierville coach lost his job over it, a supervisor at the Memphis Animal Shelter’s facing scrutiny for doing it: they used profanity and lots of it. Some jobs you get fined, some jobs you get fired, employees told abc24.com profanity is too common …
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Mar 10 2010
Workplace & school violence and the importance of recognizing signs of aggression
By Joel Griffin, SecurityInfoWatch.com As more and more incidents of workplace and school shootings dominate headlines across the country, security managers find themselves looking for ways to identify potential threats before they manifest themselves into acts of violence. Often the warning signs exhibited by those responsible for bringing terror to their local communities are not …
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Feb 16 2010
6 Ways to Identify an Employee in Need of Anger Management
Press Release from PR.com In the wake of two devastating workplace violence incidents, Atlanta-based AidevO People Consulting, LLC, a counseling and consulting firm that specializes in workplace anger and conflict, offers businesses and organizations six signs that may indicate an employee’s need for anger management services. Over the past six months several incidents of workplace …
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