Category Archive: Anger management

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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Jun 25 2010

How not controlling your temper affects your career

By M.Collins, Helium.com Everyone gets angry from time to time. Wise parents teach children early to control their tempers. Uncontrolled anger hurts people, can be dangerous, and in the workplace can affect your career success. If you cannot control yourself, how can you direct junior staff properly? Someone who has an uncertain temper cannot be …

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