Steadying Your Emotions in Hard Moments

  • Author: Dr. Lew Bayer
  • Credit: 1
  • Study time: 45 to 60 minutes
Resilience and Being Change Ready micro course
Course overview
Recognize your reactions under pressure, separate facts from feelings and judgements, and use four steps to respond with care in hard moments.
  • Video time: 3 minutes
  • Certificate of Completion included

What's included?

  • 5 Lessons
  • 1 Certificate of Completion
  • 1 Worksheet
  • 3 Videos
  • 2 PDF downloads

What you will learn

Recognize common reactions under pressure, including the BREAD responses, and their effect on others.

A tool you can use this week

The Facts, Feelings, Needs and Judgements Sort, used with four steadying steps: recognize the emotion, take a pause, stay focused on the issue and get support (adapted with permission from Workplace Connections). The worksheet helps you apply it to a real situation this week.

Dr. Lew Bayer

CEO of Civility Experts Inc., author, and Canadian Civility Ambassador
ABOUT LEW
Dr. Lew Bayer is internationally recognized as the leading expert on civility at work. She is CEO of Civility Experts Inc., a multinational civility training group with more than 500 affiliates in 46 countries, and the author of 23 books, including the bestseller The 30% Solution and a new book on diplomacy due for release in January 2027. With some 30 years of experience as a practitioner and mentor, Lew and her team of social architects help organizations build better workplaces by building competency in civility. She serves as faculty at the Canadian Management Centre, is Director of the International Civility Trainers' Consortium, and is currently embracing her role as Canadian Civility Ambassador.
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