The dynamics created by clever bullies in the workplace is complicated. Successful strategies to shift anti-social behavior require well-coordinated activities for three levels. Leadership First are those who truly have the power to decide the workplace will be free of abuse and intimidation. Leadership includes CEOs, boards and partners who …
If you miss these opportunities to build a strong connection between you and your employees, you may not get a second chance. Read on to learn all the ways to meet their needs and promote a long term relationship that protects you from poaching.
If your harassment prevention program is about sitting employees in front of a video, you’ve failed. Passive programs do not prevent or address workplace harassment. Read futher about a strategic approach much more likely to address the issue in your workplace!
Wondering how to navigate the romantic landscape at work? Here are some tips that will help you keep things mutual and avoid backfires when a relationship sours.
There are many reasons why employees can’t or won’t perform up to supervisory expectations or even up to their own potential. There are clues that suggest the ultimate source of poor performance and it’s often not the employee. Take a look at the surroundings in which the employee is placed.
Five Steps to Getting and Keeping Things Positive Organizational culture is a combination of the nature of your business/mission, stated values and philosophies; leaders’ personal philosophies; and employee personal values. Corporate policies and leadership guidance strongly influence employee behavior. If leadership demands facts and data before product or program changes, …
This topic is receiving increased attention today for a few reasons. First, 28 states in the US have reviewed or are reviewing legislation to make serious, targeted bullying a statutory crime (The Healthy Workplace Bill). Second, increasingly research shows the productivity cost to work teams bothered by these distractions. Third, studies also show …
There’s a useful concept from the study of adolescent mental health in “risk factors” and “protective factors.” According to this theory, there are certain family and social characteristics that may exert influence both negative and positive on the outcome of an adolescent’s eventual success . . .
Toxic employees can control a unit, a department or even an entire company division. Much depends on your observational skills to detect it and the standards your company applies to disrespectful behavior. Read more about how these dynamics can develop and thrive without some guard rails in place.
The process of change – how the world of business works is aptly described in Spencer Johnson’s 1998 book Who Moved My Cheese?* I recently needed an illustration of the maladaptive ways in which employees respond to change, while teaching Psychology in the Workplace. Students didn’t have the time to …
