Tag Archives: fear
It’s so much easier to critique what you can see than it is to conceptualize something that doesn’t exist yet. Our ideas of the future are often vague, as if we’re trying to throw together a complex clay sculpture without an armature. Michelangelo said, “Every block of stone has a statue inside it, and it [...]
August 2, 2011 – 12:56 pm
Recognizing a Bully As a manager, you might not know that you have a bully reporting to you. Depending on a bully’s style, you may never observe an inappropriate interaction yourself. In these difficult times, employees tend to stay in jobs even if they’re unhappy, so turnover might not have increased. The bully’s departmental results [...]
Also tagged behavior, behavior change, bully, bullying, coaching, communication, employee engagement, job security, leadership, management, meetings, organizational development, relationship, rudeness, teamwork, workplace
Can a work group resolve a bully problem without the intervention or support of senior management? Several of you have raised this question because it can be inconvenient, impractical, or downright useless to try to get a senior exec involved. It’s very difficult to change a bully’s behavior. It’s hard for bullies to give up [...]
Also tagged behavior, bully, bullying, communication, job security, leadership, management, meetings, relationship, rudeness, teamwork, workplace
Because I’ve been writing about bullying for the last few weeks, I’ve been noticing behavior which, although it may not seem so bad at first, could rise to the level of bullying if it was repeated, consistent, or purposeful. I’ve wondered, for example, if a person who has an ongoing practice of begging and wheedling [...]
Have you ever been bullied at work? You might be surprised at the wide variety of bullying styles, from raging and being overt about their use of power to demure and definitely under the radar. Here’s how to tell the difference between a bully and a boss who just happens to be stern, demanding, or [...]
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Liz Alt Kislik is President of Liz Kislik Associates LLC. Liz brings more than two decades of customer-focused management experience to businesses of all sizes and segments. She helps managers address complex organizational problems, particularly in the areas of customer care and employee performance.
