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Overview: From a teamwork perspective, high performing teams motive each other to increased performance, not into poor performance. Some employers can be insensitive of how their workplaces support and in some circumstances, even encourage bullying. Nevertheless, all employers can take simple steps to prevent, look into complaints and dispatch with episodes of bullying.

Employers are often unaware of the power they have to prevent bullying from occurring. Granted, bullying issues can be hard to untangle; conduct on both sides may be highly opinionated, emotionally charged and hard to define factually. Bullies often have an unerring talent in shifting blame to others and obscuring issues. Other bullies do not consider anything wrong with their conduct. Targeted employees are often worn down and can be emotional or even have their own issues.

Even management, whether rightly or wrongly can be viewed as being a bully, instigator or supporter of such conduct. Management bullies are often adept at hiding in plain sight. Other managers insist they are being accused of bullying when they merely want a reluctant to perform employee to work to the best of their abilities.

One fact an employer can be sure of is, that regardless of from where or from who legitimate bullying conduct originates, just as a school bully intensifies their efforts, so do adult bullies. Such conduct rarely goes away of its own accord. As such, employers need to take steps to prevent, minimize and resolve this damaging conduct.

Why should you attend: The business problem with bullying is that it can deter talented employees from joining the company, minimize their performance, increase absenteeism and hasten their departure. The compliance problem with unaddressed bullying claims is they can escalate into costly harassment claims. On the people side, it can cause unnecessary emotional and often severe mental stress to an employee that carries over and negatively affects their personal lives too. Bullying between peers can cause safety issues as well as productivity issues. Bullying has even escalated into episodes of workplace violence. One certain outcome of workplace bullying - it is going to be impossible to foster teamwork without confronting bullies in your workplace.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Identifying Real Bullies
• Preventing Bullying and Escalation of Bullying
• What To Do About A Bullies Most Proficient Talent - Turning The Tables on Someone Else and Obscuring The Issues
• Management Bullies
• Differentiating Between Management Bullying vs Legitimate High Expectations
• Identifying Root Causes of Workplace Bullying
• Simple Management Intervention Strategies
• Creating Teams That Are Bully Proof
• How Employers Can Inadvertently Cause Bullying
• What To Do Upon Receiving a Complaint of Bullying
• Untangling the Real Issues Upon Receipt of a Complaint
• Solutions for Solving Workplace Bullying

Who Will Benefit:

• Managers
• Branch Managers
• Store Managers
• HR Generalists
• HR Managers
• Plant Managers
• Management
• Business Owners