5 Reasons Leaders Should Care About Bullying & 7 Ways to Stop Bullying

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Leaders should care about bullying on their teams and within their companies because the negative impact on performance and costs is big. I share 5 reasons managers should care about bullying and 7 suggestions for how to stop bullying in the workplace.
The impact of bullying on teams is big. 33% report they have seen colleagues being bullied. If managers don’t appear to take action, then team trust heads downwards quickly.
If managers are bullying staff and the leaders in the business ignore it or don’t take action, the cost of bullying to companies jumps – in lower performance, higher staff turnover, inability to recruit good staff with sensible wages, increased litigation and a drain on management time.
The immediate cost of bullying in the workplace is damaged trust. In my view, if you don’t have trust, you don’t have a team. A team outperforms a group of individuals day in day out. Without trust, ideas, solutions, motivation and performance all get weaker - throughout the team.
How bullying impacts team performance starts with the individual being bullied. They spend lots of time and energy dealing with the bullying which means their personal performance falls. Their colleagues observing the bullying and management not taking action start worrying about when its their turn. Those phone calls from recruiters become more appealing. The better team members leave and performance really starts dropping.
With team performance dropping, think about how bullying impacts the manager bonus.
The impact of bullying in the workplace when trying to recruit results in fewer top candidates being recruited and having to pay everyone more to join. Glassdoor and similar review websites make is easy to find out about the culture before joining.
Why managers should care about bullying includes increased legal risk of lawsuits that cost a lot and take up huge amounts of management time.
I go through 7 suggestions for preventing and managing bullying in the workplace. Workplace bullying stops high performing teams being created so anything managers and leaders can do to stop workplace bullying is hugely important.
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Jess

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