In February Uber Engineer Susan Fowler wrote a blog post reflecting on her year at Uber – a year rife with sexual harassment and discrimination. Unfortunately, her year was also rife with ignored complaints made to HR because offenders were high […]
If you attended the Ascentis webinar, here are the handouts I showed in my presentation: Setting expectations worksheet (for managers and supervisors to use in working with employees) Roles of bystanders (information about each role a bystander may play in a bullying […]
Special thanks to David Weisenfeld for having me on his show, XpertHR!! Listen to the podcast on his page. Workplace bullying is an issue increasingly on HR’s radar. When does teasing cross the line into bullying? What happens when the accused […]
I was invited to participate in a 3-part podcast series on HR Latte, with Rayanne Thorne, on the topic of workplace bullying. She had recently read my book,BACK OFF!, and was inspired to spend some time chatting with me about […]
I recently returned from speaking at the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) international conference (I had an audience of 1,000 – pretty cool). After I speak at conferences I always get a slew of emails from attendees, but this […]
Are workplace bullies intentional in their behavior? If you have four minutes right now I’ll share the answer; it’s not a simple yes or no question.
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True story: The VP of Learning and Development for a credit union was being bullied by her SVP of Human Resources. She lodged a complaint with her CEO, and he hired an attorney to do an investigation. The attorney found […]
Yesterday I attended a conference, and one of the speakers talked about taking action. To make a point, he held up a $5 bill and said he was selling it for $1. Four people got up to make the deal, […]