by John Riley | Nov 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Your attitude is CRITICAL for effective and successful Conflict De-escalation! ESPECIALLY your attitude towards the person you are thinking you need to de-escalate! I recently read an article on de-escalation in the latest issue of “Barista”, an industry...
by John Riley | Oct 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
The reality of a knife attack is that there is nothing you can say or do at that moment that will “de-escalate” the attacker Can you de-escalate a knife attack? Once again the uninformed, misinformed, misguided and criminals are rioting and looting in...
by John Riley | Oct 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Finger Pointing Escalates Into Trashing Of McDonald’s. High, VERY high, on the list of things NOT to do when interacting with an angry person is – Do not point your finger at them! This recent incident at a McDonald’s in Indianapolis has several...
by John Riley | Dec 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
How Jazmine Headley incident could have gone differently. My team and I were in NYC last year with a client when this incident happened. Everything I read at the time pointed to the security guards on scene actually ESCALATING the situation before they called the...
by John Riley | Jan 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
I was recently asked how I would have de-escalated the situation of the angry transgender person in the Gamestop video game store. The incident happened around December, 2018, at least that is when the video and comments began popping up on Youtube. I watched the...
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