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Three Ways to Deal with an Angry Person

The Recovering Engineer

” If you look carefully at that statement, you’ll see that I slipped in a fourth tactic – Ask Permission to change the topic or direction of the conversation. It’s possible that a tactic will work in one situation with a person and wreak havoc on a different day in a different situation with the same person.

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Three Communication Strategies Guaranteed to Irritate Others

The Recovering Engineer

As with any technique or tactic for working with people, this one can be taken to a ridiculous extreme. A better, and a slightly counterintuitive, approach is to speak directly with people. It is more powerful, more persuasive, and less irritating to say exactly what you mean than it is to insinuate, infer, or imply.

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Six Questions to Make Sure You Have Communicated Effectively

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I think you need to consider the whole situation before you apply any specific technique or tactic. As I wrote before , I am not a big fan of silver-bullet, one-size-fits-all communication techniques.

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Three Critical Factors to Consider Before You Choose a Communication Technique

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Each of these situations – contexts – calls for a different consideration as you choose your communication tactics and techniques. Is it spoken or written, on the phone or face-to-face, one-on-one or in a group setting? The bottom-line is this: if you are looking for silver-bullet, one-size-fits-all communication strategies – look no further.

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Why The Health Care Reform Debate Makes Me Sick

The Recovering Engineer

When you’re trying your case in the court of public opinion, attempting to preserve your chances for re-election, or hoping for a powerful sound byte for the evening news; the tactics employed by politicians may be useful. Just don’t use them in your personal or professional life. They are almost destined to fail.

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Why The Health Care Reform Debate Makes Me Sick

The Recovering Engineer

When you’re trying your case in the court of public opinion, attempting to preserve your chances for re-election, or hoping for a powerful sound byte for the evening news; the tactics employed by politicians may be useful. Just don’t use them in your personal or professional life. They are almost destined to fail.

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How To Control Your Anger: Two Questions To Ask Yourself | Guy.

The Recovering Engineer

One tactic for controlling anger at its source is to recognize that by removing what came before the foam, we never have to deal with it at all. Well, anger is the same way. Once it blows out of us, it is really difficult to reign in and clean-up. It would be better to stop the foam (anger) before the explosion.

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