How to Handle Emotionally Charged Situations in the Workplace On-Site Training

This seminar prepares you with practical advice for keeping your cool and knowing what to say and do to de-escalate the conflict around you, preserve your work relationships and get on with your day.

Course Description/Agenda

Have you ever been confronted by an angry co-worker or had to deliver bad news you knew would set someone off?

Workplaces are stressful and there are plenty of triggers for strong negative emotions. If you’re like most people, you’d prefer to avoid these uncomfortable situations. But avoidance doesn’t usually work for long.

How to Handle Emotionally Charged Situations in the Workplace is a LIVE, interactive, virtual seminar that reveals how to handle tense situations and emotionally-charged behavior in a calm, reasonable way. This seminar prepares you with practical advice for keeping your cool and knowing what to say and do to de-escalate the conflict around you, preserve your work relationships and get on with your day.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Maintain emotional balance and control even when negative things happen
Use empathy, people smarts and a repeatable plan to resolve conflict before it escalates
Gain control where you can — your own emotional reactions and the words you choose
Transform tense situations using a rational, positive approach
Strengthen relationships by becoming more conscious of what others are feeling and thinking

WORKSHOP AGENDA

Program time: 3 hours each day (6 hours total)

DAY 1

Session 1: Achieving Emotional Balance

The importance of embracing your emotions, while staying in control of your responses
6 traits of an emotionally balanced individual
How emotions catch you off guard and play into your patterned approach to situations; and how to change old habits
Steps for maintaining emotional control by choosing how you respond when you feel afraid, anxious, angry

Session 2: Using Self-Awareness and Empathy to Tackle Conflict in its Early Stages

How to become more conscious of your emotional triggers so you can choose your reactions
3 parts of empathic communication and how they help you show others that you understand
Important interpersonal skills for strengthening relationships and to use in emotionally charged situations
De-escalate conflict by using a consistent, planned method

Session 3: Controlling Your Reactions

React to stressful situations better by understanding which things you can control and which things you can’t
How to effectively communicate and get people to respond during intense or urgent situations
Techniques for responding constructively to criticism

DAY 2

Session 1: Tactful Communication for Difficult Situations or People

Communication techniques to fall back on when facing a difficult conversation
Tools to help you work through disagreements or misunderstandings
How to reword what you’re saying so you don’t make things worse when dealing with difficult people
Tactics to say “no,” deliver bad news or give constructive feedback with fewer negative effects
Techniques for calming an angry person so they’ll be receptive to your words

Session 2: Assessing and Resolving Conflicts

5 basic causes of conflict and how they affect the approach you use
Positive, constructive techniques that will help you gain cooperation
Questions to ask to help you get all the facts and build rapport as you deal with conflict
Tactics to use when you’re caught in the middle of other people’s conflicts
Ways to prevent people from getting defensive

Session 3: Using Social Awareness and Communication Flexibility to Strengthen Relationships

Top people skills needed to survive in the workplace
4 different communication styles and the need to adjust to the other person’s communication preferences
Valuable communication tactics that will strengthen your relationships

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