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    ductive for you to ignore anger or tip-toe around it. There is something known as the communication chain. When people communicate, they expect the person or persons they are communicating with to respond or react…this response or reaction is a link in the communication chain. A failure to respond to communication leaves the communication chain unlinked.

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    When it comes to dealing with angry customers, there are four things you must be crystal clear on. These four critical ideas make up what I call the Psychology of Anger.

    1. Anger precludes rationality
    Angry customers simply cannot rationalize. This is because they are so wrapped up in the emotion of anger that everything you say is filtered through their emotions. Anger is an emotion and emotions are experienced in the right side of the brain. Rationalizing, problem solving, listening, and negotiating are all left-brain activities and your angry customer is stuck in the right side of the brain, and therefore cannot be expected to rationalize with you.

    Research has shown that an approach to problem solving that emphasizes anger diffusion first results in a lesser payout by the company.

    Warning:
    Do not attempt to problem-solve or even offer a concrete solution – such as a credit or a gift card- to an angry customer. Certainly, you don’t want to negotiate with an angry customer. If you do try to problem-solve or negotiate with an emotional customer, you will almost always have to offer more than you would, had you first diffused anger….your first task with an angry customer is to diffuse anger and create calm. You will be far more successful if you first create calm.

    2. Anger must be acknowledged
    It’s not productive for you to ignore anger or tip-toe around it. There is something known as the communication chain. When people communicate, they expect the person or persons they are communicating with to respond or react…this response or reaction is a link in the communication chain. A failure to respond to communication leaves the communication chain unlinked.

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    1. Anger precludes rationality
    Angry customers simply cannot rationalize. This is because they are so wrapped up in the emotion of anger that everything you say is filtered through their emotions. Anger is an emotion and emotions are experienced in the right side of the brain. Rationalizing, problem solving, listening, and negotiating are all left-brain activities and your angry customer is stuck in the right side of the brain, and therefore cannot be expected to rationalize with you.

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    2. Anger must be acknowledged
    It’s not productive for you to ignore anger or tip-toe around it. There is something known as the communication chain. When people communicate, they expect the person or persons they are communicating with to respond or react…this response or reaction is a link in the communication chain. A failure to respond to communication leaves the communication chain unlinked.

    For example, If I walk into my office and say... “Hello Sh

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    tomer is stuck in the right side of the brain, and therefore cannot be expected to rationalize with you.

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    2. Anger must be acknowledged
    It’s not productive for you to ignore anger or tip-toe around it. There is something known as the communication chain. When people communicate, they expect the person or persons they are communicating with to respond or react…this response or reaction is a link in the communication chain. A failure to respond to communication leaves the communication chain unlinked.

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    you don’t want to negotiate with an angry customer. If you do try to problem-solve or negotiate with an emotional customer, you will almost always have to offer more than you would, had you first diffused anger….your first task with an angry customer is to diffuse anger and create calm. You will be far more successful if you first create calm.

    2. Anger must be acknowledged
    It’s not productive for you to ignore anger or tip-toe around it. There is something known as the communication chain. When people communicate, they expect the person or persons they are communicating with to respond or react…this response or reaction is a link in the communication chain. A failure to respond to communication leaves the communication chain unlinked.

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    ductive for you to ignore anger or tip-toe around it. There is something known as the communication chain. When people communicate, they expect the person or persons they are communicating with to respond or react…this response or reaction is a link in the communication chain. A failure to respond to communication leaves the communication chain unlinked.

    For example, If I walk into my office and say... “Hello Sherry, how are you?” ....and she says absolutely nothing, she’s broken the communication chain. And that leaves me feeling awkward, perhaps embarrassed.

    If a customer expresses anger and we fail to respond to it, the communication chain is broken and the customer feels like they are not getting through, that you are not listening.

    So, the customer may speak louder to make his or her point. They might become even angrier and more difficult; as they are resorting to whatever it takes to feel heard and understood.

    You can keep your angry customers from getting angrier by acknowledging their anger and responding to it. You can respond to anger with a statement like,

    “Clearly you’re upset and I want you to know that getting to the bottom of this is just as important to me as it is to you.”

    This statement directly and professionally addresses anger – without- making the customer even angrier. Now that the anger has been acknowledged, you have completed the communication chain.

    3. The issue is not the issue.
    In conflict situations, the issue at hand is not usually the real issue. The way the issue is handled becomes the real issue. What really matters to customers is not the $2 overcharge or the fact their order for cranberry red paint is actually holly berry red. What does matter is how the company responds and resolves the issue. That becomes the real issue.

    Always work hard to offer a solution that demonstrates a sense of urgency, is laced with empathy, includes a sincere apology, and clearly conveys that the getting to the bottom of the problem is as important to you as it is to the customer. W

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