As all the best performers and public speaking <a href="https://www.levo.com/articles/office-hours-recaps/3-steps-to-being-a-better-public-speaker"> </a>know, confidence is as much about appearance as it is about feeling it. So where better to start honing your confidence than in your voice, one of the most important tools you have to give others a favorable impression?As psychologist and author Larina Kase says: “True confidence is not thinking that you’ll get a great result. It’s knowing that you can handle any result.” Read on to learn the 10 secrets of sounding confident. These expert tips will prepare you for success in any professional or public-speaking situation.

The key to doing anything well is doing it often and speech is no exception. When you’re nervous about a difficult conversation, such as making the case to your boss for a raise, or a scheduled talk in front of an audience, practice what you’ll say beforehand. Public-speaking expert Dale Carnegie recommends using a real or stand-in microphone if you’ll be using one during the actual event. Recording yourself is also a good way to figure out if you’re using the best pacing and pauses. It also allows you to evaluate your voice for clarity and volume.

1. Practice

People ask questions when they’re missing information or want approval for an idea or decision. While there’s nothing inherently wrong with either of those situations, both can make you sound vulnerable. To project your ideas with confidence, don’t let your voice creep upward at the end of a sentence. Maintain an even tone of voice and finish your statements with periods, not question marks.

2. Don't articulate a statement as a question

Carmine Gallo, author of Talk Like TED, claims 190 words per minute is the ideal rate of speech for public speaking. At this speed, your audience will feel less like you’re talking at them and more like you’re having a conversation over lunch. If you speak too slowly you run the risk of putting your audience to sleep. And if you talk too quickly you can sound amateurish or nervous, like you’re trying to get it over with as fast as you can. That’s why 190 words per minute is the sweet spot you should aim for.

3. Slow down

The body language that accompanies your message is just as important as the words coming out of your mouth. Audiences perceive speakers to have more positive traits such as warmth and energy when they use a variety of gestures, according to Carol Kinsey Gorman, Ph.D., an executive coach and consultant in nonverbal communication. While some physical gestures, such as fiddling with clothing or touching hair, can distract or convey a lack of confidence, using your hands when you speak is a great way to communicate your excitement and knowledge about the topic.

4. Use your hands

Do you ever begin your sentences with, “This is just my opinion,” “Sorry,” “I’m still working on this,” “Well,” “I mean,” or any number of other negative or useless prefaces. Most people do as a matter of habit or nervousness, but caveats and fillers can damage the confident tone you’re trying to strike. Instead, say what you mean and nothing else. For example, “We should take this pitch in a different direction,” is much more persuasive than, “Well, I think we should take this pitch in a different direction, but I’m still trying to find out the best route to take.”

5. Throw Away caveats and filler phrases

Professional singers have favorite pre-show beverages to soothe and prepare their vocal cords. And while you may not need to hit any octaves during your next conference call, hydration is equally important for speakers. Studies show the positive effects of hydration on vocal chords; basically, it keeps them moisturized and enhances the sound of your voice. The best way to stay hydrated is to stay ahead of the curve—by the time you feel thirsty, it’s too late. Drink water regularly throughout the day for the best results.

6. Stay Hydrated

Dr. Ramiro Zuniga explains the link between gratitude and confidence<a href="http://sungardk12.com/gratitude-leadership/"> </a>: “When a leader shows gratitude, it helps create a positive atmosphere. The display of gratitude conveys the message that all is well and moving in a forward direction.” Thus, thanking coworkers and direct-reports for their contributions and achievements is another way to say the company is thriving and on track to do even better in the future. Start the conversation with a little gratitude, even a “Thanks for coming,” and you’ll convey confidence from the start.

7. Express gratitude

Have you heard the adage that smiles are contagious? Christine Clapp, a public-speaking expert at George Washington University, explains the benefits of smiling on both the speaker and audience<a href="http://www.americanbar.org/publications/tyl/topics/communications/5-secrets-speaking-confidence.html"> </a>: “Smiling not only makes your voice more pleasant to listen to, it also conveys confidence . . . You will appear friendly, approachable, and composed.” That’s more than enough reason to grin the next time you give an important talk.

8. Insert smiles into your speech

What’s your biggest public speaking fear? For many people, it’s silence. They worry about forgetting an important idea or losing their train of thought midway through a sentence. Speakers who try to engage their audiences with questions worry that no one will respond. But silence isn’t your enemy; it can actually be a powerful confidence-projecting tool. Professional speech coach Gary Genard points out that audiences need strategic pauses<a href="http://www.genardmethod.com/blog-detail/view/366/speak-with-power-how-to-sound-like-a-leader#.VXR6bIu8xUQ"> </a>in order to retain and understand important points.

9. Use silence to your advantage

Holding your head high and rolling your shoulders back won’t just make you look confident; it will improve the sound of your voice as well. Good posture enables you to breathe deeply in and out through your abdomen, which is how actors and other public speakers project their voices to resonate clearly throughout the space. So to maximize the power of your voice, sit, or stand up straight and take a deep breath.

10. Maintain good posture

Those people who own a room every time they speak? They have mastered these skills.


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Personal Development

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Communication

10 Secrets To Sounding Confident

𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐯𝐮𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞.

𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑

𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 (𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥). 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝, 𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬.

The type of pain does not matter; the important thing is that the pain experienced is unpleasant. Because anger never occurs in isolation but rather is necessarily preceded by pain feelings, it is often characterized as a ''secondhand'' emotion.

𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑 😡

𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐲 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬, 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧.

𝐇𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧. 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐦𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭 - 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫-𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬.

𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬; 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝.

Being cc’ed on an email or invited to an instant message group is a new opportunity for you to look at who’s in the “room”—and introduce yourself. <ul><li>Reply directly to the message sender with a compliment.</li><li>Identify someone with a shared background to you and tell them, “I couldn’t help but notice you’re also ____,” followed by an offer to chat or at least look out for each other. </li><li>Wish that departing coworker well when they send their final, office-wide farewell email.</li></ul>

Reply directly to people in emails and instant messages

Each time you have a comment or question that you didn’t get a chance to raise in a meeting is a new opportunity for you to approach and spark a conversation with someone later, one-on-one. Whether it’s congratulating someone or asking a brief question, you will have a few conversation topics to warm things up with.

Follow up after smaller group meetings

Events that involve an entire team, department, or even company are more than just about sharing information. They are also hidden opportunities to meet people you wouldn’t have otherwise met.Do your homework on a particular speaker you care to impress. Then, ask a well-researched question to make a distinct impression.

Follow up after town halls or group workshops

Even if you don’t quite get along with your company-assigned mentor or “buddy,” they can be a gateway to meeting more people in the firm. A question like, “Do you happen to be connected to anyone who . . . ?”A simple question like this can be all it takes to spark the first connection with someone you wouldn’t have otherwise met.

Engage with your assigned buddy

From employee or business resource groups to hiring committees, cross-company working groups can be a great way to meet people—particularly senior people who care to give back. These committees offer an additional advantage: they give you a common interest, experience, or identity to break the ice with—and to bond over.

Join committees or working groups

When you find yourself in the office, make a list of colleagues you’ve only met over email, phone, or video chat and figure out where they sit. Then, approach them with a “just thought I’d introduce myself in person given that we’ve only ever met online!”

Introduce yourself to people you only met online

Scroll through your company’s internal directory, and identify the people you’d like to work with, learn from, or simply have a conversation with. Reach out with: “I noticed ____ and would love to learn more about how you navigated from ___ to ___. Would you be free for a short conversation at the following times?”If your company doesn’t have an internal directory, search for current or former employees using LinkedIn.

Send a cold email asking about someone's work

Large projects may be bureaucratic, but they are also hidden opportunities to meet people across departments or even geographic locations, therefore serving as a conduit to individuals you would rarely make contact with. If you have the bandwidth and the project in question doesn’t look unwieldy, consider raising your hand.

Volunteer for cross-functional/cross-organizational projects

After a long time of working online, it can be tempting to grab that laptop and hide in a cubicle or side room, even when you’re in the office. This is a missed opportunity to maximize your run-ins with others—and negates the value of being in the office in the first place. Camp out in the communal pantry, near a bathroom, or out in the open—and turn eye contact into a nod into a smile into a “so, no more working from home, huh?”

Camp out in high-traffic areas

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Career

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Teamwork

How to connect with new work colleagues in a hybrid setting

<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">You’re a bio-psycho-social-spiritual entity, within your societal and cultural matrix. Every one of those facets of your being impacts every other. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">A simple example: We know that the microbiomes in your gut directly influence your mind and emotions, your longevity potential, and the health of your physical infrastructure. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">The same can be said for each other “part” of your being: “Mental” health is better understood as “whole-being” health.</li></ol>

 “Mental” Health is Better Understood as “Whole-Being” Health

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">A study published in <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-74886-001">Psychological Review </a>found that an important but overlooked dimension of well-being is seeking out new life experiences, especially ones that may emerge unexpectedly - those marked by novelty or complexity, and that may require a change of perspective.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">It might be learning something new; participating in an activity beyond your zone of familiarity; or perhaps traveling somewhere you’ve never been.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">One implication of this research: When you consciously seek out and open yourself to new experiences, you stimulate growth and expansion of multiple facets of your being. </li></ul>

1. Seek New and Diverse Experiences

Overall, the new experiences contribute to the feeling, “This is why life is worth living."<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">These findings highlight a link with feeling grateful for just being alive. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Gratitude in this sense is deeper than feeling grateful for all you’ve achieved or acquired in your external, material life. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Rather, it’s inner life awareness of your continuous connection with life in all its forms; an awakening of being part of a continuous whole, from the beginning of time. </li></ul>

That Feeling, "This Is Why Life Is Worth Living"

Embracing new experiences and gratitude for your existence, at this moment, lifts you from conflicts or disappointments you might be experiencing. That expanded perspective is part of whole-being health.

Whole-Being Health

Research highlights turning fear<a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/fear"> </a>into positive energy for growth. <ul><li class="ql-align-justify">A study published in the journal <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-69183-001">Emotion </a>reveals the overlooked positive impact of experiencing uncertainty in your daily life. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Tolerating, and even embracing, the unpredictable nature of life stimulates greater appreciation for simply being alive; for enjoying what is, in this moment of time.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Savoring the “small things” in life pulls you out of immersion in daily ups and downs. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">That understanding adds to a healthy, whole-person recognition of life and helps you appreciate this moment that you occupy, in your brief lifetime.</li></ul>

2. Embrace the Anxiety of Uncertainty…and Life’s Impermanence

Another overlooked way to grow the “health” part of mental health sounds simple, but research finds it has particular benefit for your essential cognitive and mental capacities as you age: engaging in small talk with people, and listening to them in return. <ul><li>It might be an encounter with a grocery-store clerk, or passing the time for a few moments with a neighbor. </li><li><a href="https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2021/09/deep-conversations-strangers">This study of over 1,800 participants found </a>that connecting with others in meaningful ways tends to make people happier, and that connecting with others in deep and meaningful ways increased well-being.</li></ul>

3. Talking and Listening to Others

Similarly, an NYU study published in JAMA Network Open found that engaging with people on whom you can count to simply listen to you when you need to talk and connect with others is associated with greater cognitive resilience as you age; it’s a buffer to the effects of brain aging and disease.

Engaging With People Is A Buffer To Aging

New findings from Georgetown University reveal that age does not automatically lead to declining mental abilities. <ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Contrary to prevailing thinking, this large-scale research found that those capacities—especially the ability to focus and orient yourself to whatever you’re engaging with - actually improve with age, as you use them. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">These findings add to evidence of the interconnectedness of all dimensions of your being, as your healthy cognitive capacities stimulate the other facets of your self.</li></ul>

Ability To Focus And Orient Yourself Improve With Age

All of these findings underscore the overall mental health implications of engaging fully with life - appreciating it within this brief moment of time we occupy—and staying <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/mindfulness">mindful </a>of how transitory and impermanent everything is.

Summary - All The Above Lead To Life Appreciation & Mindfulness

Beautifully articulate. Truly love the phrase 'whole-being' health. Love the practice / way of life of it too.

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Mindfulness

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Habits

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Mental Health

3 Overlooked Ways to Boost Mental Health

There is a huge difference between being virtual like many were at the start of the pandemic, and the hybrid way of working that many companies are planning for.With people split between the home and the office, companies will go from a situation where there is a single mode of communication to one where people are showing up from different locations, and potentially using different means of communication.This could easily lead to meetings becoming confusing or tip the conversation in favor of those who are physically in the room. That could mean those who work remotely are overlooked.

Remote workers in the hybrid setup

Ultimately managers have the overwhelming responsibility to create presence for everyone in the meeting, but attendees also have a responsibility to understand who is in the meeting. But regardless of who your manager is, it is important to create as much presence for yourself as possible. Keeping your camera on is an obvious basic essential.

Be engaged, even if your manager is leading

If they can, remote workers should seek out an "in-room buddy" who can act as an advocate and pull them into conversations. This could just be a fellow team member or friend who is in physical attendance.It's also important to think about how you participate. This doesn't always need to be verbal. Using features like chat or "raise hand" present in most mainstream video call apps can also help to boost your presence.

Buddy up

The "stunted" nature of virtual communication, can make it harder to read body language and other non-verbal cues.So if you're remote, let people know how you're feeling about something. Actively verbalizing your emotions can help people to better understand the intent of your message if they can't easily perceive your non-verbal cues.

Over-communicate about your emotions

How you look on screen is important. But it's not all about vanity, it's about having respect for your conversation partner.Aside from ensuring that your face is evenly illuminated, other key things to focus on are how you're framed - showing your full face and a large part of your body to ensure that people can read your body language - and to ensure that your background is not too distracting.

Make it easier for others to read you with good lighting

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Remote Work

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Corporate Culture

How to stand out in virtual meetings

<ul>
<li>When people talk about corporate culture, they’re typically referring to cognitive culture: the shared intellectual values, norms, artifacts, and assumptions that serve as a guide for the group to thrive. </li>
<li>The other critical part is what we call the group’s emotional culture: the shared affective values, norms, artifacts, and assumptions that govern which emotions people have and express at work and which ones they are better off suppressing. </li>
</ul>
Cognitive culture is often conveyed verbally, whereas emotional culture tends to be conveyed through nonverbal cues.

Cognitive culture vs emotional culture

... even if it’s one of suppression.Emotional culture is rarely managed as deliberately as the cognitive culture—and often it’s not managed at all. Companies suffer as a result. Research shows that emotional culture influences employee satisfaction, burnout, teamwork, and even hard measures such as financial performance and absenteeism.

Every organization has an emotional culture

Some companies have begun to explicitly include emotions in their management principles. But to get a comprehensive read on an organization’s emotional culture and then deliberately manage it, you have to make sure that what is codified in mission statements is also enacted in daily organizational life. It's about small gestures rather than bold declarations of feeling.
Facial expressions and body language are equally powerful. If a manager consistently comes to work looking angry (whether he means to or not), he may cultivate a culture of anger.

Delving beneath the surface

Most leaders focus on how employees think and behave—but feelings matter just as much.

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Human Resources

Manage Your Emotional Culture

Stoicism, a school of thought that flourished in Greek and Roman antiquity. It was one of the loftiest and most sublime philosophies in the record of Western civilization. In urging participation in human affairs, Stoics have always believed that the goal of all inquiry is to provide a mode of conduct characterized by tranquillity of mind and certainty of moral worth.

Stoicism 

The Stoics believed that perception is the basis of true knowledge. In logic, their comprehensive presentation of the topic is derived from perception, yielding not only the judgment that knowledge is possible but also that certainty is possible, on the analogy of the incorrigibility of perceptual experience. To them, the world is composed of material things, with some few exceptions (e.g., meaning), and the irreducible element in all things is right reason, which pervades the world as divine fire.

Nature Of Stoicism 

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Philosophy

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Problem Solving

Stoicism | Definition, History, & Influence | Britannica

It's not the disagreement that is the problem, but its impact on the workplace that must be managed. When channeled correctly, differing opinions can bring about positive change and new ideas.When employees are engaged in a conflict, don't take sides or assume that the dispute must be brought to an end fast. Employees don't always have to agree with each other. Healthy disagreement should be expected and even encouraged, provided those involved are not rude or disrespectful.

It's not about the argument

When conflicts occur, it's common to metaphorically "turn away" from the other person. We see the other person through a negative lens, focusing on what's missing, what's wrong, or the other person's flaws. Remind the individuals that they are on the same team. Ask them to think about how much they value their position at the company and how important it is for them to work well together. This shift in their thinking brings the bigger picture into play as it reminds them that they are a part of the larger organization.

Remind both parties that they are on the same team

How your employees relate and speak to each other is often more important than the topic at hand. Understanding how they interact is key to helping them resolve the conflict and move forward.Many people don't realize the impact their tone of voice or approach can have on other people. If one person feels attacked, they probably won't pay attention to what the other person is saying, even if they make an important point. Instead, they will likely focus on themselves and their reaction to how the other person was speaking to them.

Notice the language used in conversations

<ul><li>Suggest that each person start the conversation by stating their intentions. For example: "This situation is hard for both of us. I'd like to share my thoughts on this project, and then I'd like to hear what you think." </li><li>Recommend that one person speak first while asking the other to listen with curiosity and interest. </li><li>Have them plan to offer one or two main points or takeaways for the other person. Let the person listening know that they can ask questions once the speaker is finished. </li><li>Then have the employees switch roles.</li></ul>

Provide guidelines for navigating difficult conversations

The next time an argument between employees breaks out in your office, observe how your employees are interacting with each other and then teach them these practical ways to have a more effective conversation.When you address the negativity between two employees, you empower them to regain control, boost their confidence, and break poor communication patterns within your organization. This makes your entire team feel respected and valued.

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Here is what, we mean by Exist point - a month ago I accidentally post an old post ( as if it was a new post) from my media company Facebook/Page on my WhatsApp status. Later, I removed it. By the time I removed it closed to 5 people has already viewed it and felt really embarrassed. And since then, I have stopped posting on WhatsApp status. You too can use such incidents as an existing point like I did.

Number - 1: Exist Point

Tim Ferries author of a book called ' The 4-Hour Work Week ' shared (In his one of the YouTube Channel video) how deleting the Social Media Apps from his cell phone helped him get rid of Social Media addiction. As there will be no Social Media app on you are phone. So, what's there to check.

Number - 2: Deleting the Apps

Set suitable time for Social Media use maybe 10-11Am (Morning) or 12Pm-2pm (Afternoon).Yes, it will be hard to do, but over time you will get used to it.

Number - 3: Set time for use

You are Brain, will do anything to avoid pain. We can use it to our advantage. Relate too much use of Social Media use with pain. It could be physical pain or psychological pain. That, way you can avoid too much use of  Social Media use with pain.

Number - 4: Relating it to Pain

Those companies who are running Social Media are not fool. They spend billions of dollars every year just to make you hooked into their service. So, if you don't have a specific intention on why? You are using it. You are, more likely to get trapped badly. So, know what you are going to do and why? You want to do it.

Number - 5: Have an Intention 

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