How To Apologize Like A Boss

While airlines aren’t something businesses would want to pattern themselves after right now, there’s a great article from inc.com by Bill Murphy Jr. that diagrams what the author describes as an effective corporate apology. He breaks everything down to five key components: Excitement Contrition Self-confidence Gratitude Confidence What’s perhaps most useful is how concise Murphy is with the analysis, it won’t take more than a few minutes to get through the …

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Advanced De-escalation: When You Can’t Avoid Controversial Topics

In a time when stakeholders are more on-edge than ever, it pays to brush up on basic de-escalation technics. To that end, I wanted to take a moment and point out something from Kelly Leonard, Executive Director of Learning and Applied Improvisation at Second City Works, who promotes a concept he calls “thank you, because…” H/T Holly Mulcahy for bringing this to my attention because if there was ever a time …

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