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Announcing: Civility Partners, LLC
www.NoWorkplaceBullies.com
has received a lot of attention. But NoWorkplaceBullies  was never about bullying - it was always about building a positive workplace.
We got together with experts in other areas in order to bring you Civility Partners, LLC. Civility Partners is a consulting firm offering solutions and training to help you build a civil, positive, healthy, and safe workplace where employees can thrive - because your survival, and success, depends on employee relationships.
We now offer solutions and training in the following areas:
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workplace bullying
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sexual harassment (AB1825 compliant)
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diversity
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interpersonal communication
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internal communication audits
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climate assessments
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internal communication processes
Your Partner in Building a Positive Workplace.
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Programming Healthy Habits of Today for Tomorrow 
By Dr. Daniel Scott, Author Verbal Self-Defense in the Workplace (with a forward by yours truly)
As children we learn new behaviors easily and effortlessly because there is a constant stream of feedback from parents, teachers, friends and family which motivate us to act in a certain way. How it works is quite simple -- good feedback makes good feelings and we unconsciously seek to have those feelings more, so we repeat the behavior ... and bad feedback makes us feel bad and subsequently we avoid doing that behavior again with the goal of avoiding those bad feelings. Just because we're adults doesn't mean our learning patterns change all that much -- we still require positive reinforcement to develop habitual, unconscious behavior patterns.
What does this mean for targets of workplace bullying? As you develop communication skills (both internally; talking to yourself -- and externally; talking to bullies) and learn to handle bullies in ways that work best for you, it's critical that you follow up any of the new, useful behaviors with positive reinforcement to turn those skills into unconscious habits. One effective way to do that is through "future pacing" using visualization.
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Quirky Case Study:
Taming a Type-A Culture Gone Wild
I found this interesting case study on BNet about Method, the household supply company that "creates products for people against dirty". When their culture went from fun and wierd to mean and angry, the 30-something founders had to make changes. They did so by creating 5 cards that lay out the values of the company, including collaborate, care, innovate, "keep method wierd", and "what would MacGyver do?"
They even ask interviewees to answer the question, "How would you keep Method wierd?" - a perfect example of an interview question that ensures new hires fit within the corporate culture.
And "several years ago, after a period of rapid sales growth and frantic hiring, the free flow of ideas started to get a little too free. Arguments were breaking out in the middle of the very public encampment of cubicles. Employees who should have been talking with one another weren't. For a cleaning products company composed of 'people against dirty,' things were getting messy."
Click here to read the article - great insight into using culture as a business strategy. (BNet may ask you to create an account, but it's free, and a great resource on all sorts of business topics anyway... so it's worth the 2 seconds.) |
