Working Well Together Insights

The numbers are going up in relation to workplace mental health and it is not in a good way for businesses around Australia. Safework Australia has recently released it’s 2017-18 statistical report on Workers Compensation and the trends are not healthy when it comes...

Mental health issues in the workplace are complex. When you add claims of bullying and a rejected Workcover claim appeal, it can be complexity upon upon complexity. In this article, we review a decision made by the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission in...

I was attending a networking event recently where another attendee and I struck up a conversation. In talking about what we do, he advised he was manager in a large, well known company. I advised I worked in the world of workplace bullying prevention and management....

What's it like to walk in the shoes of an accused workplace bully? Can we find empathy for that employee? Or is it someone who has been labelled and the mud has been well and truly smeared all over them? If we explore this question from a research base, it is...

Employers are commonly told that a key, if not the first, response to a bullying complaint is to implement an investigation. While I agree an investigation, formal or informal, is essential, there is a vital first step required for risk management. That is ensuring...

What do you do if a team member refuses to greet another at work? Should you do anything? Is not saying "hello" really a sign of bullying? I once had two team members who were in conflict. One of the employees, let’s call him Jim, would come in to work, say hello to...

Worksafe Victoria has taken action resulting in a $116250 fine for Director, John Moncrieff, and his security company, Monjon Australia. The fine was metered out in the Broadmeadows Magistrates Court after he pleaded guilty for failing to provide a safe workplace...

Superfriends recently released their 2018 Thriving Workplaces Survey Report providing us with a snapshot of workplace mental health and wellbeing across Australia. As would not come as a surprise to many of you, my attention was drawn to the information relating to...

Workplace bullying prevention and management is, like most things in life, a process of learning and growth. In my experience at the present time, different companies and businesses are all in different stages of the workplace bullying learning and growth cycle. Some...

Last week I had a conversation with an employer who raised an issue of bullying type behaviours with one of their employees. The employer told me, that when he raised the behaviours of concern, the employee responded with a denial that they had been using bullying...