Managing Anger

• Losing your cool at the drop of a hat these days?
• Urge to kill?

• Only a few people naturally get angry very easily
• Most people get angry because their anger threshold is too low.
• It's because so much frustration has built up that you have a short fuse.
• Instead of looking inside for the cause of negative feelings, we blame something external to us.
• Raise your threshold for getting angry.
• Examine what has led you to carry around so much frustration.
• Putting the causes down on paper make. them less nebulous.
• Break the causes of your frustration down into bite size pieces.

What else can you try to better manage your anger?

• Ask yourself how you could react differently to these issues.
• Make an action plan to change what you can change.
• What is easiest to change is how you view situations that are upsetting you.
• Some causes of frustration will be work related, some personal.
• Knowing that we all face such issues means youíre not necessarily odd.
• Catch yourself when you feel your anger boiling up.
• Write down why this event is provoking you.
• What is it about your attitude that makes it possible for you to feel anger in this situation?
• If you can't change it, how can you view it differently?
• Ask yourself if there isn't some other way you could react to it.
• Convince yourself that there are no objective causes of anger - you could react differently if you really wanted to.
• No one can force you to feel anything.
• Force yourself to look for positives in every situation.
• Try to find a funny side to upsetting situations.

Challenging conventional thinking about leadership

• Understanding your Emotions
• Controlling your Anger
• How Happy Are You?
• Resolving Conflict
• Assertiveness

• Managing Stress at Work
• Managing Your Anxiety
• Being less Defensive!
• Work Life Balance