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10 10, 2023

Toxic Positivity: How Unrealistic Workplace Happiness Goals Can Backfire
Toxic Positivity: How Unrealistic Workplace Happiness Goals Can Backfire

Toxic Positivity: How Unrealistic Workplace Happiness Goals Can Backfire

Otti Ott2023-04-25T14:19:10+08:00October 10th, 2023|Coaching & Management Support, Conflict Resolution & Mediation, HR / Psychological Consulting Services, Peer Support Products, Psychosocial Risk Management|

While a positive work culture engages employees, boosts morale, increases retention, and improves productivity, toxic positivity can result in repressed emotions and artificial behaviour. Toxic positivity may sound like an ironic phrase, but it's very real and can often derail attempts to create a genuinely harmonious culture. What is toxic positivity? Over-emphasising the happiness agenda can backfire and have the opposite of the desired effect on employees. It can

Workplace Cyberbullying: What It Is and How You Can Put a Stop to It

Otti Ott2023-04-25T13:53:45+08:00August 29th, 2023|Coaching & Management Support, Conflict Resolution & Mediation, HR / Psychological Consulting Services, Psychosocial Risk Management, Training & Development, Workplace Investigation Services|

You may be surprised to learn that cyberbullying is not just a teenage issue. Employees all over the world experience cyberbullying in different forms. Research studies show that approximately 72% of Australian employees have experienced cyberbullying in the workplace. Cyberbullying in the workplace, much like other forms of bullying, can cause severe levels of stress and anxiety as well as reduced levels of productivity. As awareness of cyberbullying increases,

Is Insensitive Behaviour Killing Employee Morale?

Otti Ott2023-04-25T13:00:06+08:00August 8th, 2023|Coaching & Management Support, Conflict Resolution & Mediation, HR / Psychological Consulting Services, Psychosocial Risk Management, Workplace Investigation Services|

Rude, insensitive bosses and colleagues, toxic work culture, and uncivil workplace behaviours drive away valuable employees and cost companies billions of dollars in lost human resources and workers’ compensation costs. Today’s workplaces face a confronting truth: Poor workplace cultures are driving away valuable talent. Factors that drive a toxic work culture Poor workplace culture can be driven by many factors including lack of communication, lack of respect, a hyper-emphasis