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3 tips for talking with angry antivaxxers
Here’s three tips you can learn to talk with anyone who has a different opinion from you.
Here’s three tips you can learn to talk with anyone who has a different opinion from you.
Increase in aggressive customers starting already I’ve been contacted by several businesses in the past two weeks worried that their staff will be faced with more aggressive customers required to show vaccine passes. Aggressive customers can be very difficult to Read more…
Do these three things for yourself when confronted by an angry person and there’s one thing that’ll help them calm down in just about every situation.
Here’s a story and my insights from the ongoing work I do in Bangladesh. Seven years ago, I set up a training academy in Bangladesh with a Bangladeshi colleague. I’ve visited that country more than a dozen times and organized over Read more…
“We are getting more and more irate customers. Our staff don’t know how to deal with them.” Here at Thriving Under Fire we are getting more enquiries like this than ever before. For the past 20 years we have specialized Read more…
Here’s three tips you can learn to talk with anyone who has a different opinion from you.
Here’s three tips you can learn to talk with anyone who has a different opinion from you.
Julie complained that while she was good at being positive and showing empathy with difficult customers, she found it more challenging to do the same with her co-worker Susan who really got on her nerves. She had seen the following Read more…
FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss can teach us an enormous amount about getting on with others. His book Never Split the Difference comes from years of dealing with the most challenging hostage situations around the world. He says a hostage Read more…
As a kid, I got mixed messages about anger. My parents were frequently angry. When they were angry, they would hit me or one of my eight siblings. It’s understandable they were mightily frustrated. Anger and aggression were very closely Read more…