{"id":4017,"date":"2014-04-18T14:23:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T22:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2014-04-18T14:23:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T22:23:28","slug":"a-better-way-to-say-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/a-better-way-to-say-sorry\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Way to Say Sorry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuppacocoa.com\/a-better-way-to-say-sorry\/\">It&#8217;s simple:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry for\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is wrong because\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the future, I will\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Will you forgive me?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But it&#8217;s so important.  \u00a0When you are engaged in work with teams of people and you are doing things none of you have done before, there are going to be mistakes made and people are going to be offended.  \u00a0Learning how to apologize is important for a couple of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>A sincere apology builds trust and strengthens a group. There is nothing better than a group of people in which people take on responsibility for their actions.  \u00a0True leadership arises when folks step up, show their self-awareness and understand how their actions have impacted the group.  \u00a0You build tons of social capital within a group by acting this way and it makes you resilient and more grace filled and more forgiving.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, a sincere personal apology is an incredible liberation for both you and the person you have offended.  \u00a0If you have even an iota of moral clarity, something in you will be triggered when you have offended another person.  \u00a0You KNOW you were wrong.  \u00a0Stepping up is a cleansing feeling.  \u00a0And to have an apology like that accepted and to be forgiven is beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>This is fierce practice.  \u00a0It requires us to be vulnerable and honest and to be carefully self-aware.  \u00a0And done sincerely it builds capacity, grace and humility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s simple: &nbsp; I&#8217;m sorry for\u201d This is wrong because\u201d In the future, I will\u201d Will you forgive me? But it&#8217;s so important. \u00a0When you are engaged in work with teams of people and you are doing things none of you have done before, there are going to be mistakes made and people are going to be offended. \u00a0Learning how to apologize is important for a couple of reasons. A sincere apology builds trust and strengthens a group. There is nothing better than a group of people in which people take on responsibility for their actions. \u00a0True leadership arises when &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[22,48,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-community","category-leadership"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-12N","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}