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Stop letting your past impact your present: Identify your Workplace Family Factor
Identify your Workplace Family Factor to uncover how your upbringing influences your approach to conflict at work. By recognizing these patterns, you can develop strategies to respond thoughtfully and create healthier workplace relationships. When was the last time you had a visceral reaction in your place of work that reminded you of how conflict was…
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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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4 Risks Executive Leaders Take When Abrasive Behavior Is Allowed
Addressing abrasive or any disruptive behavior in the workplace is messy and uncomfortable. But the risk of avoiding these difficult conversations is allowing the behavior to continue and infect your organization with a toxic culture. What makes addressing abrasive behavior even more challenging is if the employee is a top performer. This means they have…
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3 Reasons Executive Leaders Avoid Addressing Abrasive Behavior and Why
Barb is a go-getter and a “make-things-happen” kind of leader. She is determined to be efficient and get things done in order to move on to the next project. She has high expectations for herself and for those who work for her. As a result, she has received several promotions and has made the company…
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7 Ways to Keep Your Best Thinking During Conflict
Any relationship, including work relationships, involves disagreements and conflict. In fact, healthy leaders encourage disagreements so that the best ideas can emerge. The key is working through tension with productive, effective behaviors rather than destructive, ineffective behaviors. When conflict is productive, the real issue gets addressed and conversations move forward so that relationships can get…
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5 Remarks Leaders Often Make to Avoid Conflict and Eventually Blow-Up in Anger
“Feelings are mentionable and manageable” – Mister Fred Rogers In his television show of 895 episodes that ran from 1968 – 2001, Mr. Rogers taught kids about a variety of life skills such as self-value, self-control, curiosity, appreciation of diversity, cooperation, patience, and perseverance. Through meaningful lyrics, scripts, and puppetry, Mr. Rogers presented meaningful experiences that…
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25 Abrasive Behaviors that Lead to Employee Resignation
Are valued employees leaving your organization because of one particular leader? This leader is known for explosive angry outbursts, condescending comments, and public humiliation of employees? Perhaps you can relate to this concern from an executive leader I recently spoke to. “She has an abrasive personality. Several of my employees are threatening to quit because…
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What do your employees say when you leave the room?
What do your employees say when you leave the room? That you’ve got their back – strive to help them succeed or do they perceive that you’re only out for your own career advancement? When you’re not around, do employees complain about your emotional outbursts and never know when they’re going to be yelled at?…
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