Commit to a Boundary Sentence
Draft and use one boundary sentence for aggressive delivery.
When a peer uses a personal jab during a project review. Aggression handling improves when the behavior is pre-committed. You are not promising to win the conversation; you are promising to perform one controllable move: name the shared purpose, set the respect boundary, and ask for the useful concern. When a stakeholder raises their voice in a status meeting. When a Slack thread shifts from issue critique to team blame. When a senior person dismisses a junior colleague with sarcasm. When I hear [specific aggressive behavior], I will say: "I want [shared purpose], and I need us to keep this…
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