I asked my 15-year-old son this question: ‘If I could come in and do some training with your teachers, what would be the first thing you would want me to teach them?’ He replied, ‘Teach them how to not shout so much’
‘How to not shout so much’ sounds like an odd topic for a training course, but if I think back to my days in corporate and to the stories my students and clients narrate to me, this topic hits the nail on the head. A recent study by Korn Ferry, ‘Workplace stress continues to mount’, confirms that workplace stress is on the rise and has in fact increased by nearly 20% in three decades. Since stress is what usually triggers a shout response, with the ever-increasing number of stressors in our lives, learning how to not shout so much is becoming more important than ever.
