Working Well Together Insights

How do you spot the abrasive leader or workplace bully prior to them doing harm that costs your business time and money, and causes your employees serious harm? How do you intervene early? Let me tell you, it is something akin to Where’s Wally in that you have to be...

Bullying is a term that is being increasingly used in our society. From world leaders on an international stage to local workplaces. But a key problem behind the word "bullying" is that the word in itself, is unhelpful if we are trying to understand and prevent...

Physical health and safety has been front and centre of male dominated industries like construction, mining and manufacturing for many years. In comparison, psychological safety is a slowly growing area with an increasing profile. But what is the linked between male...

Leaders are at the centre of an effective, productive and safe workplace. Where you don't have good leadership, workplace bullying can thrive leading to higher levels of conflict, decreased productivity, higher employee turnover, and staff injury and associated costly...

Abrasive bosses aren’t evil – they’re afraid…they are driven by their unconscious fears of incompetence, their terror of being perceived to be inadequate – a failure. Laura Crawshaw, Founder of the Boss Whispering Institute...

In 2017, Mary-Rose Robinson suffered a workplace bullying psychological injury resulting in her never being able to return to work. As a result she was awarded a pay out of $1.46 million dollars. Prior to the injury, she was described as an accomplished professional...

Picture this. You are at work and one of your colleagues, Dina, is searching through another colleagues, Sandra's, work draw. Sandra is absent from the workplace at the time. Dina pulls out a packet of medications from Sandra's draw and makes a comment about how they...

A Current Affair last week aired an interview with Thea Findlayson. In an unimagineable outcome, she found her husband, Mark, at home having ended his own life. Mark had worked for Dubbo Council for almost 20 years. Dubbo Council was recently found to have contributed...

The workplace bully. They are psychopaths, narcissists, snakes in suits, or throw in whatever other name you want to call them. It feels like we are supposed to hate bullies completely, doesn't it? But what if we don’t hate them that completely? What if we like parts...

"Workplaces must become smarter in developing and implementing systems and processes to address bullying in every environment. It is not just about systems of detection and reporting, but processes that prevent bullying including effective change management and...