Taming the Toxic Workplace

Today we are going to begin a series of blogs that will serve as an online workshop you can benefit from in the comfort of your own home. We will start with written blogs and add video blogs as we go along. I also offer a workbook that expands on the mini-teachings the blogs will provide. https://www.amazon.com/Taming-Toxic-Workplace-Workbook-Holland/dp/1530498961/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1474201170&sr=8-2&keywords=taming+the+toxic+workplace

I created this material to help employees learn how to deal effectively with the impact bad workplaces are having on their lives. My goal is to give you new strategies for dealing with whatever nonsense you are facing at work, and help you get your life back. Whether it be new ideas for better Hr Compliance implementation across the business, or ways to call out inappropriate behavior in the workplace that may be harder to spot than the usual suspects. Regardless of what position you hold in your organization, if you have someone above you, next to you, or under you who is robbing you of safety and health, what you’ll learn can make a vital and perhaps even life-saving difference.

Everyone deserves a safe, healthy, productive work environment. Yet too many of today’s organizations aren’t even thinking about safety or health as an organizational objective. Too many of today’s leaders are untrained, dysfunctional, or otherwise compromised. Chaotic workplaces where there is no clear authority structure can lead to dangerous consequences. Some people even experience accidents in the workplace because of these sorts of environments. You might want to look for some injury law attorneys if you’ve had an accident at work that wasn’t your fault. Some employee’s personal issues can invade the workplace and wreak havoc, they might not realize themselves leaving boxes or potential trip hazards out for people to injure themselves on. Serious problems arise from compromised co-workers too. It creates a cycle of destruction in which one person’s dysfunction feeds the needs of another’s dysfunction until the mission is a distant memory and the bottom line lies in tattered ruins. With it comes the very real carnage of people’s shattered self-worth, family life, careers, and dreams. Not only that, but it can lead to an increasing array of accidents and injuries, usually needing the intervention of a legal team such as lamber goodnow to help put right, or at least on the path to mending. When a workplace reaches this state it is an entirely unacceptable state of affairs, and I am on a mission to change it. We must transform our workplaces from toxic cesspools of despair to places of victory. We all must be willing to change. While some offices and workplaces may not be dangerous, they may still be outdated and not conducive to productivity. A makeover of sorts, including new office monster furniture and supplies, may be in order to revitalize an office and make it practical and well-equipped for the modern age.

Weak leaders allow problems ranging from aggravating to dangerous, to run unchecked. They abdicate responsibility, refuse to listen, live in denial, and cover up misconduct. They leave people to fend for themselves, without the ability or authority to resolve problems. They send their best employees to workshops about how to deal with difficult people, rather than demanding accountability from the difficult people themselves. These kinds of leaders go to hire guest speakers to conduct what amounts to pep rallies to distract people from the reality of the problems they face. They will do team building activities to give the appearance of caring. They coerce employees into pretending with them that nothing is wrong. All of it is designed to restore the leader’s emotional comfort. It’s never about the team. It’s always about the leader. Some leaders are lazy and too emotionally stunted in their own growth to deal with the tough stuff. They will manipulate people and engineer situations for their own advantage, at the expense of the team. Those types of leaders do massive damage to their employee’s health and lives. Those profoundly negative impacts rarely make the news, but they fundamentally alter the course of people’s futures.

This series of blogs is going to teach you how to systematically work through a comprehensive assessment of the problems and their impact on you, and then shift into strategies for solving those problems and mitigating the damage. Even if you think your situation is so unique or so toxic that no one could possibly understand and nothing can help, hang in there. There is hope.