Working Well Together Insights

Are you concerned that if you start performance managing a member of your team that you will be accused of bullying them? If you are, you are not alone. However, under the Fair Work Act, reasonable management action carried out in a reasonable manner is not workplace...

What employee characteristics does your company need to be successful? Is emotional intelligence on your list of required capabilities? Emotional intelligence is linked to both our individual success and that of our workplace. As emotionally intelligent employees,...

Not so long ago, I read a post on LinkedIn. I was horrified to read that the poster had labelled workplace bullying as political correctness gone mad. At first, I asked myself the question “Should I be horrified by some writing that?” just to make sure I wasn’t being...

A common question I am asked at conferences and workshops by participants is “How do I stop someone from bullying in my workplace?” The short answer is that you need to tell the person they are using bullying type behaviours. It is highly unlikely they will have their...

A guarantee of maintaining confidentiality is a key element in successful workplace investigations whether completed internally or by an external party. It protects employees from retributive action, encourages participation, and creates confidence in a company or...

Have you noticed that in this modern world we never seem to be alone? Of course, we may be physically alone, but all around us we are connected to others more than ever through technology including social media and mobile messaging. Our social connection to others is...

Have you ever worked in a company or organisation where it resembled a battlefield more than a workplace? Where whispered conversations in the corridors, the kitchen or around the photocopier stop when management, the perceived enemy, walked in? Or team meetings were...

One of the many challenges that exist for organisations within health, community or social welfare based services are individual clients who use aggressive behaviours. Organisations within those sectors can have a tendency to dismiss the behaviour as being caused by...

For many of our fellow colleagues (and ourselves) there is an expectation that prevention and management of workplace bullying starts with line management. General employees look to local management; local or middle management seek support from executive management...

Resilience. It is a word that embodies flexibility and strength; a capacity to bounce back; a response where no problem is unsolvable. That is how one client, Nick (not his real name), described resilience to me. However, for him the word has taken on tarnished...