#53 | Positive aggressiveness

"Aggression is everywhere - it just expresses itself differently."

It's 9 o'clock in the morning. Before you've even finished your first coffee, your annoying colleague is already asking you questions that have long since been answered. A scenario that sounds familiar to one or the other. And it triggers various reactions. Even aggression. How this turns out is as different as the people themselves. What is particularly surprising is that it is not as bad as its reputation.
 At least that's what aggression researcher Prof. Dr. Jens Weidner says. He is a guest in this SMP LeaderTalk and explains why you can draw positives even from aggressive behavior.

"This energy that you need comes from the same pot as destructiveness."

Management and leadership levels in particular benefit from this. As bizarre as it may sound, the energy that underlies both violent offenders and managers is the same. This is where Weidner came in and developed a training course that deals with aggression constructively rather than destructively. In this episode, he reveals to Georgiy Michailov exactly how this works and why it is also necessary to change your mindset.

"Don't believe the open error culture."

Weidner also talks about the experiences he has had with open error culture in companies through his coaching sessions. He reveals how it can work, what you need to look out for and what tricks you can use to win people over. Weidner also reports on his work with violent offenders, reveals the secret of the Peperoni strategy and explains why he believes that assertion looks different for women than it does for men.

*Video only in German