Posts

Choose Encouragement

Image
"Words are the most powerful force available to humanity. We can use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively with words of hate. Words have energy and power; to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble." - Yehuda Berg #leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #stepup #DignityAtWorkAct Dan Olweus, defines schoolyard bullying as: “...as aggressive behavior or intentional harm doing by peers that is carried out repeatedly and involves an imbalance of power, either actual or perceived, between the victim and the bully.”
Post a Comment
Read more
Image
 
Post a Comment
Read more

Value and Retain Employees

Image
 "Successful business leaders build institutions of lasting value - committed to talent and a culture of excellence. This is accomplished by identifying, developing, and retaining great people." - Bobby Kotick #leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #stepup #DignityAtWorkAct
Post a Comment
Read more

Challenge and Expose Workplace Abuse

Image
"Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not." - Kara Walker #leadersarentbullies #stepup #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #DignityAtWorkAct Workplace bullying involves a target's exposure to repeated and enduring negative and demeaning acts, where a formal or informal power imbalance exists between the involved parties. #workplaceculture
Post a Comment
Read more

Transcend Trauma

Image
"Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief." - Jane Leavy "Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence." Peter A. Levine #leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #stepup #DignityAtWorkAct
Post a Comment
Read more

Ethical Relationships

Image
Crazy recent backyard animal spottings! "Corruption takes two - it's possible only when there is complicity of, even manipulation by, an (executive)." - Victoria Abril The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great. - Foster Friess #leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #stepup #DignityAtWorkAct In bullying environments, bullies maintain complicit, colluding, and corrupt relationships with executives at the expense of worker health, safety, and productivity. #LeadersArentBullies #healthyworkplaces
Post a Comment
Read more

Heal, Transform, Resurrect

Image
"Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss." - Anne Grant "The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect." - Peter A. Levine "I'm still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it." - Clemantine Wamariya #leadersarentbullies #healthyworkplaces #leaderselevatethoughtandconduct #stepup #DignityAtWorkAct
Post a Comment
Read more