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5 Keys To Guide Your Abrasive Top-Performing Employees
As a leader, you play a key role in helping your employees transform abrasive behaviors into emotional intelligence skills. Here are 5 keys to guide your abrasive top-performing employees to positive transformation. By addressing behaviors that distract from a healthy work culture, you serve as a guide for these same employees to become the hero…
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Grow Your Spine & Manage Abrasive Leadership Behavior
Do you know how to manage abrasive leadership behavior? As an HR professional, manager, or executive leader, you’ve probably googled something to the effect of “How to address bosses who bully”. And then you quickly realized, that most strategies follow a similar format: Set clear expectations, follow through with accountability, avoid he said/she said power…
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How to Deal with an Abrasive Co-Worker or Boss
Do you know how to deal with an abrasive co-worker or boss? Are you sensing pushback when you try to connect with colleagues or bosses who are edgy, irritable, and short-tempered? Are you feeling a sense of pushback when you try to connect with colleagues or bosses who don’t know how to communicate? Do you…
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How to Stay Non-Reactive and Set Healthy Boundaries in 5 Words or Less
Learning to stay non-reactive in leadership is often like parenting when it’s necessary to draw lines and the lines aren’t always clear. Sometimes it can seem like steering on ice. Just like a parent, it takes discernment to know when to: Draw a firm, tight line and demand a lot of your…
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Small Changes Over Time Could Mean Big Changes For Your Interpersonal Skills as a Leader
Interpersonal skills as a leader are crucial for fostering a positive and productive workplace culture. By making small changes to how you communicate and address conflict, you can set a strong example for your team and create an environment that thrives on respect and collaboration. Have you heard the saying “Small actions create big changes”?…
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Are your dysfunctional family conflict patterns affecting your leadership conflict patterns?
Great, it’s happened again. An abrasive leader has exploded on one your team members yet again. The team member is embarrassed, afraid to contribute when the leader is around, and becoming disengaged from the organization. The last time this happened you swore to yourself that you’d address it the next time it came up, but…
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Does your Staff Meeting Remind you of a Tense Holiday Meal?
Imagine you have a high-performing team member, let’s call him Rob. He’s worked for your organization for years and knows your business inside out. While Rob is one of your most valued employees from a performance perspective, he has some rough edges in how he treats people. When projects don’t go as planned, his temper…
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Toxic workplace? How One Woman Chose to Stay & Grow
“When I was growing up, I learned to be cautious of what I said because it could set my dad off in an angry outburst at any minute. Just like in my family when I didn’t want to rock the boat with my dad, the same thing is happening at work with my boss.” A…
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3 Strategies for Standing Up to the Office Bully
“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.” ~ Lao-tzu Most people either endure working with a bully or leave their job, even if they love what they do. After all, it’s risky to stand up to a bully due to the possibility of retaliation and the…
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A Boss’s Ripple Effect…on Employee Retention
I wish you could have been there, sitting in my office as a fly on the wall. You’d hear story after story of courageous people who want to make sense of difficulties in their lives in order to be their best in both their personal and professional lives. Before I coached leaders to strengthen organizational…
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