Never under estimate the power of an apology…no matter how
delayed. A woman from my office just
stopped by to apologize for her behavior from over a year ago.
In HR, you’re used to being beat up (verbally)
by employees that don’t like what you have to say, so her screaming hissy fit
wasn’t all that traumatizing. But I forever
associate her name with her temper tantrum and how nasty she was in that moment.
These days our paths rarely cross and I have no influence on
her professional future….yet she took the time to seek me out. Her spontaneous apology couldn’t have been
comfortable and frankly took guts. It
made me wonder if people associate my name with a bad behavior from
years/months/days ago.
We all have bad moments but I remembered a valuable lesson
of an apology from a very unlikely teacher. A very humbling experience....
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