The “5A” Way To Apologize
A great tool that I’ve acquired on handling apologies or any form of broken agreement. Specifically this is if you need to apologize to someone else: 1. Acknowledge the broken agreement. 2. Accept Responsibility for having broken the agreement. 3. Account for why you broke the agreement (this can be tough!) 4. Apologize 5. Amend – what are you going to do to make it up to someone? * * * The 5 As in action Here’s an example: Hi Steve, I want to apologize for something. We had an agreement that I would meet you at 1100am. I arrived at 1110am, which is 10 minutes late. acknowledge I gave...
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