What is Anger in the Workplace?

Series Summary

The workplace can be a breeding ground for frustration, anger, and all around drama. The sound of your neighbor's foot tapping incessantly, his Ronnie James Dio thinly muted in his earphones; your seven bosses each individually asking for TPS reports; the slimy greaseball that sidles up and takes credit for your great ideas; these are but a few examples of anger brewing situations common to every workplace. But there is hope beyond the cubicle partition, and it comes in the form of Brenda Dixon, whose expertise in the field of anger management is exceeded only by the common need for such useful and healthy advice.

In this free video series, our expert Brenda Dixon will help you manage your workplace anger. Brenda will teach you how to think about the workplace, find ways to agree with others, stop being involved in anger, and several ways to deal with the anger when it arises, and arise it will. Brenda will teach you how to deal with gossip, complaining, and difficult people, she will teach you a bit about ethics and tell you how to create a diffusive environment so you don't end up smashing your face through the your monitor and stabbing yourself in the jaw.

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Brenda F. Dixon a licensed clinical social worker here in Nashville, Tennessee and we're here with Expert Village today. In our discussion today we're talking about what anger is and how to manage it in the work place. This anger is something that usually it's inherited by the people that you live around, the people that you learn from, this anger is, it's only an emotion. The thoughts are what tell the body how to behave so you can not have anger unless you have the thought first. So the very first thing that comes in to your mind will begin to produce the anger. Now angry can accelerate, it can grow and it can grow, it can grow people have actually said that anger can take on like a craving the more you do it the more you have to do it and it just grows and grows on you. So in the work place it's kind of interesting to know that anger is only an emotion that can be squelched or it can be grown into a bigger higher level."