Marc Haine argues that political aggression is bleeding into corporate workplaces. He and his co-speaker recommend "elevating the conversation" to defuse hostility: calmly call out bad behavior, state the rules clearly, and reinforce boundaries instead of matching aggression.
These kinds of mindsets. Like, I'm even seeing it permeate north of the border. Like some of the emotion and some of the aggression is coming into our political system. How do you relegate that when— because that is going to start bleeding itself into our corporate environments as well?
Yeah. And I think the big thing that you need to do and that you need to learn as a skill is to learn to elevate the conversation. So, when people do that, it's about how do you react to them. So, I'm going to come back to that example that I gave you earlier when I was talking about the other department that was throwing verbal grenades and making the people on my client's team look bad. We didn't get aggressive with them. We just called them out in a nice way. And then, we told them, okay, this is— these aren't the rules that we're playing by. We're playing by these rules. So, you have to play with this here.
