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Top Five Tips on Dealing with a Crying Adult
Here’s a very specific top five! If you’re in management at any level, the time will come - or it might come regularly - when you have a person in your office in tears. It is often kind of moving and somewhat distressing in equal measure although occasionally, it’s way more or one than the other. I suspect it happens more frequently in warm, interpersonal environments such as schools and nonprofits than in the private sector although I have it on good authority it happens there, too.
The bottom line is there’s an inherent discomfort as you’re doing business and the person is having a real emotional response usually saved for private settings. It’s a recipe for awkwardness so maybe the first step is, accept the awkwardness. Trying to make it not-awkward is probably guaranteed to make it more awkward or make it into something even worse.
So here’s five very practical tips to help you through those moments so you can be a boss and be a human simultaneously.
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