Your career success is important – to both you and your family. Use these Anger Management Tips to help you successfully navigate your way through your own hot-headed moments or the outbursts of another.
Left unaddressed, anger undermines your relationship with your more senior leadership team, people who report to you and your peer group.
1. The classic method of taking deep breaths while counting down from ten never goes out of style because it works. When stress in the office starts to become overwhelming, pausing and taking a few deep breaths can prevent those explosive outbursts that can lead to serious workplace problems.
2. Exercise helps to reduce anger, stress, and tension. Often anger is the result of pent up frustration and exercise is a good way to burn off any tension.
Exercising during a lunch break or even early in the morning prior to the start of the work day can deliver great results.
This is one of my favorite anger management tips for leaders: Many of the leaders I have coached over the past 20 years make use of the practice of ‘walk and talk’. The concept of walk and talk is that if you are in a conversation with a person that has the potential to become charged in some way – then suggest to the other person that you and him or her go for a walk around the block while you discuss it.
The very simple act of getting up and moving shifts energy, enables some of the tension to be lowered and the use of the body can engage more oxygen and blood flow to the brain enabling clearer thinking. Resoundingly the feedback I have received from leaders that the walk and talk process is a real winner.
3. As soon as you find yourself becoming heated and the deep breathing isn’t cutting it for you this time … then take the opportunity to leave the environment as soon as it is prudent. For example, (if a walk and talk isn’t appropriate, say because you are in a meeting) excuse yourself to go to the bathroom – as mentioned above the mere shifting of your body will often be enough just to get the adrenaline to calm down and enable your brain to move into a more rational thinking mode.
4. Discovering the triggers that can bring on emotional outbursts is vital. There are aspects of our subconscious that can react quite negatively to certain stimulus and identifying this stimulus is necessary to preventing the onset of angry outbursts.
Once you have identified what triggers you, they can lose a lot of their negative impact. Particularly if you then focus your attention toward how you want to react in the future – do this well and it becomes a lifetime fix.
5. No-one can make you do anything – often people who get angry blame others for their state of being. You will stop being a victim to your own actions when you step above the line and take responsibility for your mental and emotional state.
You can discover more about how to walk the higher path and take responsibility at leadership-and-motivation-training.com.
6. Visualizing yourself feeling calm and at ease in all different types situations.
All things in this world started with a thought – from the chair you are sitting on to the computer you are using to the child in your arms, to the attitude you take with you into the workplace.
If you keep your attention focused upon how angry you get and how things tick you off – thinking this way on a regular and consistent basis will see more of it showing up in your life … anger that is.
Spend a few moments each day thinking and visualizing yourself being calm, connected and energized – you don’t want to go from being a dynamo to a dishmop! So make sure you still keep your passion for life – just visualize yourself channeling it in a much more effective manner.
7. Try to lighten up. Life is not always as serious as we sometimes perceive it to be. A lot of the anger issues we deal with could be reduced if we just took a more lighthearted approach to things when possible. Particularly at work there needs to be times to sit back and not take things too serious.
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