Deal with difficult, but necessary, people at work
Although all businesses need consistent policies and procedures in order to succeed, most organizations violate their own rules when faced with very difficult people who happen to be necessary for...
View ArticlePromote Yourself by Promoting Your Leader
What do successful leaders look for when they hire or promote people to front line supervisor, manager or even other leadership positions? The same guidelines you must follow if you’re the appointee...
View ArticleManagers – Evaluate Honestly and Consistently or Fail
Have you caught yourself or other managers whining about staff, “They should have gotten that done but they just goofed off.” Or “I expected them do that without direction but when I checked, they got...
View ArticleConflict-Avoidant Managers Don’t Know How to Stop Bullying
If you have a consistent pattern of avoiding evaluations, criticism, and potential conflict at work; if you hope that problems will solve themselves if left alone; if you think that the best way to...
View ArticleHow to Stop Bullies at Work: Ten Tips to Recognize Them
“How can just one person create such deep wounds that it’s taken us five months to heal a workplace,” I was asked. Many people have trouble admitting that someone can be the correct answer to, “How...
View ArticleCreate a workplace with no harassment, abuse or bullying
Sometimes, we have trouble deciding what strategy to use to increase our chances of a culture with no harassment, abuse or bullying so great people want to work, produce and get ahead – a culture of...
View ArticleBe an Electromagnetic Leader: Repel Bullies and Slackers, Attract Great...
I use the image of an electromagnet to describe the best leaders in the workplace. What are the properties of an electromagnet? The more energy we put into it, the stronger the magnetic field to align...
View ArticleHow to Stop Harassment, Abuse and Bullying in the Workplace: Winning Work-Wars
Sometimes, you make or find yourself in a war at work. When it’s against a competitor it’s usually easy to see what you need to do – gather your forces, and fight to win. But when it’s against someone...
View ArticleStop Bullying and other Surefire Methods for Undermining Teamwork
Some managers, even experienced ones, have mastered methods that destroy teamwork. They may think they’re doing what they’re supposed to or what worked to get them promoted, so they’re surprised when...
View ArticleHow to Stop Terminally Resistant Bullies at Work
Most of us spent 95% of our people-problem time working with 5% of our employees – the “Terminally Resistant” bullies who will not meet the standards no matter what we do to help them. To read the rest...
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