Office Politics III - The Words of Judo and Karate

The third article in this series about politically motivated in the workplace builds on the basic insights of the first two articles.

Office Politics I solved the problem of being a poisonous person in your workplace, instead of committing any of the two fatal mistakes that attempted to make them friends or treat them like enemies. Instead, we want to eliminate their toxic effects on the work environment.

Office Politics II shows you how to use publicly displayed friendships to eliminate "behind" toxic communications.

This article looks at another technique in the workplace and for dangerous colleagues.

Judo and karate

I am not very good at it, but I have already taken classes and entered the rainbow band in judo and karate. I know enough to really make a dangerous opponent even more embarrassing than before. But I did learn the fundamental difference between the two martial arts.

Karate involves many blocks, boxing and batting. Its basic nature is direct confrontation. One arm was lifted up to strike and stop the blow. At the point of contact with the opponent, the kick directly releases the powerful force of the leg muscles. Karate is essentially a direct blow.

On the other hand, judo uses their opponent's forward momentum to fight them. They gracefully turn your charge into a horizontal curve that redirects their power to the other direction and causes them to fall or lose balance. Let's take a look at how this works in the almost military environment of office politics.

Judo words instead of karate confrontation

We want to learn to use these ideas to avoid direct confrontation with the toxic words of our worst collections, and to redirect their powerful communications and use them to deal with them.

This is an article, not a book, so I will focus on a practical example of how to apply this concept. are you ready?

Application: Remove the word "but" from the vocabulary and replace it with "yes".

I remember when one of my colleagues and friends finally found out that I was doing this. Angry customers or colleagues will try to attack me, they agree with me and smile at the end of the encounter. My friend was surprised and couldn't figure out what I was doing for a long time. After a very intense start at the same university exit, he rushed to me with a big smile on his face.

"I found you," he said. "You will never use" and "the word to deal with them, but I and almost everyone will do it to protect themselves."

He is right. After I started my first sentence with "and", I will reiterate what they said and strengthen the point that I can agree. As I speak, I will slowly transfer the conversation to where I want it. Their anger's power was redirected, spread, and their attacks were eventually used against them.

Why is it so easy to use?

One of the reasons why these jobs are so effective is their psychological rehearsal, and their plans for this confrontation have always relied on confrontation. They plan to fight karate back and forth as a bigger and stronger opponent. Switching to another form [judo instead of karate] will take them out of the plan and stop the attack. They don't actually know what to do next.

I believe what will happen is that they have recently been stopped and don't know what to do or what to say. At the point of the vulnerability, they heard me [or you] agree with them. I agree that they agree that their embarrassment is a sigh of relief. Therefore, the whole dynamic has changed, only one key difference - I control!

There are other judo words. Test, find and use them. They are more subtle than karate words, but oh, more powerful.

This leads to the next article in our series, "Even Hitler needs a friend." You may think this is a bit slimy, but sometimes you will do what you have to do.

I hope you like this tip. Go out now, do everything you can to neutralize the acidity, have fun, and enjoy it.

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