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Quick Hits are 10-minute conversations designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to hear other people‘s thoughts on a variety of subjects. In February of 2021 I and the members of my mastermind group thought other people might enjoy listening in on some of the lively conversations we were having. But we realized that no one was going spend 90-minutes listening to us going on about anything and sometimes nothing. Instead, we decided to pick one topic and have a short conversation to share. I took the reigns because facilitating those types of conversations sounded like fun. Over the course of a few months it grew from just members of our mastermind group to four (sometimes three if schedules go sideways) people from various parts of the world and from ”short” to exactly 10-minutes. Thus was born ”Quick Hits” hosted by me, Dr Robyn. I hope to get caught up with posting them here on PodBean at some point. As of this writing, I have over 100 ”episodes.” If you‘d like to see the videos of these conversations, they are available on my YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/DrRobynQuickHits If you have a topic you‘d like to hear discussed, I encouraged you to use the contact page of my website: https://drrobynodegaard.com/ to let me know.
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Friday Jan 06, 2023
Friday Jan 06, 2023
Covert bullying is a serious problem in the corporate space. It may not be obvious to everyone in the office, but it can create a nasty workplace culture.
It can be relational aggression - Someone talking badly about you behind your back. Or it can be direct sabotage - Someone not inviting you to meetings or sharing information you need to do your job and then criticizing you for being ill-informed.
Stewart Wiggins, a fractional COO at Induna Advisors and one of my guests on this edition of Quick Hits, shared his own story of covert bullying in high level corporate roles. In his initial months there, which he described as “pledging a fraternity,” his direct manager called a meeting at his office at seven in the morning. When Stewart arrived, the manager ignored him.
“He would just be doing his thing. And I would say, ‘Is this still a good time?’ ‘Yeah, yeah, this is a good time.’”
I talked with Stewart and my two other guests — performance consultant Dr. Jenna Ross and financial futurist James Lee — about how corporate leaders can recognize this behavior and create a culture where it doesn’t happen.
“A lot of bullying behavior is about preserving the hierarchy,” Jim observed. “The bully may be threatened by the people underneath them or they may feel insecure about their own position.”
Jenna encouraged corporate leaders to get to know their team and really hear out the person being bullied. “Sometimes we look at them like, ‘Oh, they’re just being too sensitive.’ Hearing that person’s story and validating what they’re going through goes a very long way.”
Have you experienced or observed covert (or outright) bullying in the workplace? What was the result?
Connect with the panelists:
Dr. Jenna Ross: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennaross712/
James Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jleeadvisor/
Stewart Wiggins: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stewart-wiggins/
Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/
Want a summary of the Quick Hits I post every week, plus the links to the LinkedIn pages of each of the panelist to show up in your in-box every week? Just let me know where to send it: https://drrobynodegaard.com/quick-hits-notifications/
#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on pertinent subjects. If you would like to join a conversation or have a topic you would like to hear discussed, please message me. https://www.DrRobynOdegaard.com
#Bullying #WorkplaceCulture
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