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Someone has sent an unfinished email message for an important client. Someone has pasted the wrong figures into the report.

Everyone makes mistakes, leadership and psychology professor at Andy Molinsky said. But not everyone knows how to manage and anticipate the consequences professionally.

Professor Molinsky tell you what she thinks are the best strategies for the error correction.

1. Set damage to

your Feelings are screaming panic, but stay calm. How serious it actually is? Is there possibly a quick correction? Or is the damage already happened? I feel terrible mess, but sometimes emotions can overtake the reality. Basically, the first step is to stop, evaluate and get myself together.

2. Talk with the parties concerned,

And do this as soon as you can, but after that, when you has been possible to assess, calm down and gather your thoughts. Your boss, your customers - whoever that is - wants to understand what happened and why. That you understand your seriousness, that you take full responsibility and that it does not happen again. Admit and confess, therefore, your error completely. Take responsibility.

3. Explain that it is never going to happen

Draw up an action plan to fix this problem, and was wondering, what specifically are you doing to ensure that this never happens again. Be proactive. This is actually a great opportunity to increase the social capital that you have just possibly lost.

4. Examination yourself

Why is this happening? Did I do too many things beyond its limit? Did it make you late from the schedule or to lose detail? This was an isolated error? Or compliance with this a pattern? You don't want to necessarily reveal all the imperfections, but it is crucial that honestly you're thinking and you learn so you can improve in the future.

5. Earn the trust back into action with the

Address, that this never happens by providing regular results, and being particularly sure and reliable. Excellent work is the drug tarnished reputation reconstruction.

we All make mistakes. Not failure avoidance. The most important thing is to deal with the aftermath in an elegant and predictive way. So you can turn the disaster into an opportunity to restore your reputation, showing your value to those people who matter.

Source: Inc.

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