Working Well Together Insights
Where is your company placed in the workplace bullying growth cycle?
Workplace bullying prevention and management is, like most things in life, a process of learning and growth. In my experience at the present time, different companies and businesses are all in different stages of the workplace bullying learning and growth cycle. Some...
“I’m a bully? That’s your subjective opinion.”
Last week I had a conversation with an employer who raised an issue of bullying type behaviours with one of their employees. The employer told me, that when he raised the behaviours of concern, the employee responded with a denial that they had been using bullying...
Is the workplace bullying ethical bystander doomed?
Ethical bystanders are promoted as a solution to workplace bullying. If bystanders stand up, then the bully is pushed down or suppressed. However, is this realistic of what we are likely to see? Is the ethical bystander a real possibility or is it doomed to failure?...
R U ok? Day
Earlier this week, we started off with World Suicide Prevention Day. Employees who are bullied in the workplace are twice as likely to be considering suicide. Today is RU OK Day. This simple question asks us to consider how we might be able to help someone in trouble...
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day Workplace bullying has been identified as a precursor to suicidal thoughts. In a seven year study of more than 1800 participants, bullied employees were twice as likely to be considering ending their lives compared to those who...
Workplace bullying injury – it’s an epic workplace failure
Workplace bullying injury is an epic workplace failure. It's the equivalent of leaving the guard of a piece of machinery, not for a minute or two, but months. Why? Because by the time you have arrived at the injury awareness point, you have ignored all the sign posts,...
Are you the ethical employer that bullying injury ends with?
Workplace bullying injury is hard to see. Mental health injury doesn't show itself through x-rays or ultrasounds. When employees are injured from bullying, it is often hidden and relegated to appear after working hours because of the target's perceived shame and...
Are you risking your business by providing passive support to your bullied employees?
You have an employee who has alleged bullying towards them or you believe might be bullied. If you have one, you have advised them they could contact your Employee Assistance Program (EAP), should they need to. You have met your obligations and managed your risk; but...
It’s not bullying if there isn’t repeated unreasonable behaviours
For a situation to be bullying in the workplace, there must be three key characteristics present. These are unreasonable behaviour, that is repeated and creates a risk to health and safety. Recently, Safe Work SA has claimed their first successful bullying...
Is it important when a safe work authority doesn’t get bullying right?
In South Australia, a victory of sorts is being claimed for the “first successful bullying prosecution”. The outstanding gaff is that the prosecution isn’t based on bullying and the behaviour referred to is not bullying. So what does this mean in a world where...
About Michael
Michael Plowright is the founder of Working Well Together. Led by a profound belief that people should live happy, productive lives both in and out of the workplace, he supports companies and organisations that are resolute about preventing and managing workplace bullying.
Michael started Working Well Together because he saw that despite workplace bullying undoubtedly being a serious issue, many workplaces are ill-equipped to prevent or manage it. Managers and HR and OH&S staff often don’t have the time or skills, or find that the systems they have in place are too broad and generic to deal with what is a very particular issue.
Michael has over 15 years’ experience in leadership and management in the not-for-profit sector, successfully leading teams at both strategic and operational levels. He has experienced first-hand the challenges of managing staff with difficult behaviours like bullying, and knows what it’s like to be in the centre of a human storm. His extensive experience managing office behaviours, providing support to targets of workplace bullying, and rebuilding teams affected by it, forms the foundation of Working Well Together. This, together with his specialist, up-to-date knowledge of workplace bullying and legislation, allows him to help companies and organisations so they can focus on their core purpose and keeping their clients happy, and so that employees can go home safe and well at the end of each day.
Are you interested in learning more about Michael? Click here to get in touch, or connect on LinkedIn.
