Working Well Together Insights

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...

Are you hurt? Are you injured? These are two specific questions that we are likely to ask if somebody has been physically injured in the workplace, be it by falling off a chair or incorrectly lifting a box. We may even send them off to a doctor to be checked for...

For some of us, the question of why people are injured by workplace bullying, sometimes so severely, is a question that is difficult to understand. Sometimes, the target of the bullying behaviours is asked the question “Why don’t you just tell them to get stuffed?” or...

The word intent implies that a person who uses bullying behaviour has the goal, purpose or aim to bully another person. It implies choice. Yet not all individuals know they are using bullying behaviour. In fact, when confronted and labeled as being a bully many...

For just under two decades, I worked in the community services sector that has managed risk through the completion of individualised assessments. We completed those assessments to understand the client, respond to his or her needs, identify hazards and manage risk....

At a price this high, you’d hope that this lesson came with a medical or maybe even a lawyers degree. Unfortunately, it didn’t. This lesson came with an employee who suffered a significant psychosocial workplace injury; and a Government department spending money,...

I was having a conversation with a colleague the other day about workplace bullying who holds an organisational management position. He uttered that one of the key challenges of providing workplace bullying training was that no sooner had they done the training than...

As a manager, I spent years prioritising the art of managing my team members’ safety. While it was a managerial responsibility required by law, the last thing I ever wanted to do was to have to call a family member and tell them that someone they loved was injured at...

Being on the receiving end of workplace bullying can be an unexpected life-shattering event for any of us. Recovery from workplace bullying is a process that can take years, while some targets of bullying never return to work. Finding justice can be difficult for a...