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Five Strategies for Easing Difficult Conversations
Every once in a while, we encounter hurtful comments or have difficult conversations to look forward to that are either job or client-based. On occasion, sleepless nights are experienced due to the anger inside. But, anger doesn’t help the effort to find a potential solution.
Should any of this occur during the holiday season, stress is seen at an all-time high and could hinder health? Consider the following strategies to ease the pain and potentially have them work in your favor.
Rapid Punching
At home, with no one around, punch your pillow rapidly and with all your might. It helps to alleviate anger and stimulate the brain. Or, if you have access to boxing gloves and a punching bag, have at it! By the time you are through, you will have hurt no one, and you just might feel a bit better and ready to proceed to step 2.
Ask Why?
More relaxed, consider all of the reasons possible for the mean commentary or need for the dreaded upcoming conversation. From the beginning of the story, what leads to this dilemma’s root cause? Could it be a personality conflict, omission, or misunderstanding…?
Walk yourself through all of the details that led to the event turning south and the upcoming tenuous conversation. List possibilities on a newly created document.
Possibilities
Out of the entire list, which possibilities to be proposed, in your upcoming meeting are the most likely to be accepted? Add further details to the ones you like best to make your case on the appointed day. Calmly discuss the options to comprehend where you stand fully.
Personality
You can’t change someone’s personality. Sometimes you just have to walk away. However, if you are on the job, keep options open without quitting. The easier way to get a new job is to be still employed.
Entrepreneurs sometimes have to walk away from rude clients or people in their circles if the comments get to them. Remember, opinions are subjective. It is up to you to accept or reject what is being said.
For example, I responded with the following earlier today: The writing style is entirely subjective. Nice Girls DO Get the Sale was professionally edited by a highly reputable publishing house, is an international best-seller, and enjoys top-notch media attention. Yet some still felt inclined to tell me it was poorly written. Another salesperson and author that I know writes with run-on sentences. This is a “no-no” in the traditional grammatical sense. However, I found the writing extraordinarily compelling and moving, as did many others. That book has sold phenomenally well.
Be Yourself
The worst strategy is to adapt to someone else’s wishes. This kills any remote chance of moving forward, let alone being happy with who you have become. This is called developing your personal brand.
Be true to your principles, ideals, and vision when you are tackled at work by a friend or in business. It’s always good to be nice, but you sometimes need to stand up to be heard, particularly after a rough tackle.
We each have one life to live, and it’s up to us to live it the way we believe is right for us. Operating with this frame of mind, you will find the Smooth Sale!
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