Uh oh. Are you the workplace bully?
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Five ways to tell and five reasons to stop right now.
By Bonnie Low-Kramen
In a recent Be the Ultimate Assistant workshop, we had “The Conversation”. The topic was the global epidemic problem known as Workplace Bullying. In our class of 30 students, I asked, “How many of you have either witnessed or personally experienced workplace bullying?” As has happened in dozens of workshops and presentations all over the world, at least 50% of the students raised their hands. The fact is that they didn’t even have to raise their hands for me to know the truth. Their eyes and body language said it all.
And then the stories began. Stories of assistants who quit their jobs because they couldn’t take it any more. Stories of abusive managers who were eventually fired but who caused great trauma in the time they were at their companies. Stories of assistants who finally stand up to the bully after far too long a time and the relationship changes for the better. This painful but necessary segment ...
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