![]() ![]() Next, ask yourself: What three things you did to contribute to the situation coming to a head? Once you’re clear on your missteps, now it’s time to go apologize sincerely to everyone impacted, sometimes it’s an apology to one person and other times it’s a wider apology to all those who witnessed your outburst. What are the facts? What is the story you are making up about the situation? Some also benefit from venting to a trusted friend or peer to process the rest of the emotion before they can figure out the facts and the story around those facts. ![]() “Losing it” in the workplace is never acceptable behavior for a leader at any level and there is no justification that will repair your reputation.Ī reckoning of sorts is required, find some time to yourself and reflect on what led to your outburst. The challenge is we can get into a greater fear that leads us to self-protect and move into blame to justify our behavior. I have yet to meet a leader who lost their composure and isn’t aware deep down that they’ve crossed a line. This doesn’t mean you “throw yourself on your sword” but it does mean you admit you made a mistake, apologize and do so quickly. If you’ve lost composure, you need to know that it won’t end well unless you step into humility. Ongoing disagreements on approach and decisions compared to your peers Personal life stresses impacting your ability to be resilient in difficult work situations High pressures and demands to reach results in challenging circumstancesĬrises and failures that create intense emotionįestering interpersonal conflict between executivesĪ leader taking on too much, not delegating, and running a team without enough staffĪ CEO who is too hands off the development of the executive team cohesivenessĪ culture of scarcity and fear of failure Some of the stress factors that can lead executives to get to this point include: Employees and other leaders who witnessed or heard about the outburst question why no one is talking about it and whether the behavior is acceptable to the CEO. They can become that leader others walk on eggshells around just waiting for them to “lose it” again one day. What happens next is the executive who lost composure also loses credibility. You might be aghast to hear of this story and assume it is a rarity - it is not. After that meeting, they had another screaming match all in the workplace. I recently heard a story about two executive VP’s that had a screaming match with each other in the office. Next, one executive went as far as to invite team members from the other’s team into a meeting and gave them a dressing down in front of their VP. ![]()
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