Q&A: What Do I Do When An Employee Plays The Victim?
Question: I supervise an employee who plays the perfect victim, and worse, my immediate manager believes her stories. He was brought into our company from outside and has only managed…
How To Avoid Getting Blindsided By A Layoff
"I didn't see it coming." Then, when it was too late, when the human resources department or your supervisor handed you a layoff or termination notice, you wondered how you'd…
Co-Worker Has A Bad Habit Of Opening Her Mouth
Question: My coworker has a bad habit of opening her mouth and letting angry words fly. Recently, she ripped into our mutual supervisor in front of me. Our supervisor seemed…
Are Businesses Responsible for Protecting Customers From Sexual Harassment by Other Clients?
You've met the predatory customer. He or she makes work life difficult for others because his money, power or simply his status as a customer enable him to do so.…
My Customer is the Problem
Here’s a question from one of our readers on www.WorkplaceCoachBlog.com: The person I have problems with uses the line that he is my customer and because of the position I…
I Thought They Wanted Me on the Board for ME.
Question: I was recruited for a board position in an organization I have been passionate about for years by our longest serving and most respected members. They nearly fawned over…
I filed a complaint, yet more women were sexually harassed by the same employee. What now?
Q: Like thousands of other women, I wrote my #MeToo. Although I disguised some of the facts to protect myself, it was clear to me and perhaps to others that…
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How to Fire a Friend and Opens Her Mouth and Lets Fly
Question: I’ve known “John” since fifth grade. He had career success in his twenties, but it’s been downhill for him ever since. Recently, he got laid off, let me know…
8 Sex Harassment Myths
Sex harassment – so obvious we think we know what it means and is. But do we? Which of these myths have you or others in your workplace believed?…
Bully Be Gone: What Is Workplace Bullying and Why Does It Matter?
The following article by Dr. Lynne Curry was originally published in January 2018 Social Space Magazine, a publication of the Lien Center for Social Innovation, Singapore Management University;https://socialspacemag.org/bully-be-gone-what-is-workplace-bullying-and-why-does-it-matter. We have all…
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