Five tips for embarrassing situations: laughter instead of embarrassment

It is said of the actress Lilly Palmer that when asked about your face-lifting, she said: "Yes, it turned out well, right?" And Düsseldorf lawyer Udo Vetter chats openly about his underwear tweets. Conclusion: I determine what is embarrassing. Or?

In the middle of the fat bowl

Whether in the Business or in the private sphere, faster than we think you make a mistake. like gossiping in the hallway and your colleague is standing behind you? Forgot the other person's name when greeting them? Dropping an inappropriate comment in the middle of a serious conversation?

For example, during important business lunches: you want to leave a particularly good impression with your new supervisor, you want to be witty and eloquent and have a chat all round. But instead, out of sheer remark, an inappropriate remark about the boss's wife slips out. Unexpectedly, the situation tilts and the previously good and easy mood is over.

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Apparently, clothing is for many People the sticking point - even if you don't accidentally walk around in a tunic. Because the personnel service provider OfficeTeam asked 1.300 managers in the USA and Canada about their most embarrassing moments in professional life.

And most say that their own wardrobe is already their undoing: the speaker is standing in front of a big one with his pants open Audience, your own T-shirt is accidentally worn inside out or you notice it Office that you wear two different shoes or even slippers.

Laughing fits and wrong ones eMails

But other examples show how fast a situation can become uncomfortable: This would be, for example, fits of laughter in meetings, colleagues who talk about a colleague or the Executive who is right behind them, personal e-mails that inadvertently reach the wrong addressee or job promises that go to the wrong person Candidate sent.

It also happens quickly: going to work in the hectic hectic of the morning with a wrongly buttoned shirt, in one because of all the excitement Meeting get hiccups or accidentally get locked in the office.

Shit Happens: Seeing embarrassment

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Because every one of us always happens big and small embarrassments, whether we want to sink into the next hole. Me too - for example, that I just make it back on an important date but smooth again, aplze on my clothes aplizieren.

Embarrassment happens again and again. But most people make the mistake of wanting to circumvent such grease-pans right from the beginning; but that can only partially work because we are just not perfect. And yet it is always trying convulsively to maintain the perfect picture.

To embarrassment

The better tactic: Stand by the embarrassment, react quick-wittedly and laugh at yourself. Because that's how you lose it Anxiety from embarrassment, tenses up less and acts more relaxed. It's definitely less embarrassing then.

If it happened then and you are standing with both legs in the middle of the fat bowl: Exactly superior: Do you really feel hurt in his honor and dignity? Or is not the incident just a short nuisance that you should not spend too much time thinking about?

What is embarrassing, I determine!

"I decide what's embarrassing!" - according to this motto you can also be conscious of embarrassment to practice: Just commit small embarrassments in small unimportant situations.

You will find that the others are far from being as piquated as they believed. And: Often the reaction of others also depends on how to handle a situation yourself. So whoever stays cool and ready to hit, probably even has the laugh on his side.

Embarrassments on the net

Incidentally, in the age of social media, such embarrassments happened much faster - just think how quickly you got the wrong tweet out. Someone recently tweeted: “Social media proves one thing: we are all just human”. And a friend remarked: “It is human”.

The famous Streisand effect shows that it is fatal to want to iron out such misfortunes at any price. This is why they often attract more interest and make themselves ridiculous. Better: Just standing, working or laughing.

Five tips for the right way to deal with embarrassment:

1. To remain calm: In an embarrassing situation everyone would understandably want to run away. But it is better to remain calm, breathe through and then simply continue.
2. To this end: Everyone has already happened a misfortune. Anyone who recognizes their own situation at an early stage, should take it with humor and, if possible, defuse the situation with an amusing sentence. This makes it easier for the colleagues to go to the agenda more easily.
3. Show humor: It is best to carry the thing with humor, not to take yourself so seriously and to move to the agenda. Embarrassing slip-ups show that the colleague is only human. That's nice.
4. Apologize: Whether blasphemed by a colleague who hears this, or a personal mail is sent to the wrong addressee - in both cases an apology is necessary.
5. Keep working: No matter how uncomfortable the situation is, it's best not to talk about it for long. The faster the matter is over, the faster it is forgotten by others. Incidentally, and especially for the Internet.

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