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...
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 Abrasive employee behaviours in your...
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...
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...
