Navigating Workplace Conflict: Strategies for Dealing with Anger and Hostility

I’ve had so many clients come to my office in corporate tears. I think that a lot of people are angry these days, and people are feeling the anger and the wrath in the workplace. This is how you deal with someone who’s angry and really nasty with you in the workplace. First you wanna make sure that you check your own emotional pulse, make sure it’s not you being hypersensitive. So once you clear that out the way and you realize that there’s not really something going on with you, then you address the person. Irritability and anger can be the result of deep seeded depression. So sometimes people who are unhappy in life, they project that onto others. Here’s how you test it. If someone’s being particularly angry with you, check in with them. They may be surprised. Right, like, so you’re saying, you know what? I just want to know, is everything okay with you? How you’ve been doing? I just want to check in. They may open up to you or they may soften a bit, but if someone reacts and they’re like, what do you mean? What’s your problem? If they’re aggressive, then there may be something else happening. Now, there are people who. That’s their communication style, they’re very aggressive, they’re confrontational, and that is problematic. But this may be a really quick way just to check to see if someone is projecting anger onto you because they’re angry with themselves. Now, this doesn’t Apply to all situations, but I found that it may be helpful in certain situations.