Protect Your Team Members from Being Manipulated Are you being manipulated by co-workers to doubt your abilities and performance? Gaslighting is a contemporary term but underhanded manipulation in the workplace is an old trick that persists in modern Australian offices. Most of us have experienced being ‘gaslit’ by a jealous or resentful colleague. In this article, we explain what gaslighting really is, how it can manifest in the workplace
Use Effective Strategies to Nip the Problem in the Bud Research shows that most of us churn out roughly 16,000 words per day. While it’s every supervisor’s dream to lead a team that gets along well, it can rapidly turn into a nightmare if excessive talking is disrupting workloads and productivity. Talkative colleagues are listed as one of the biggest annoyances at work and it’s important to tackle the
Research on local mobile phone usage shows that Australians interact with their mobile phones about 480 million times in a day – approximately 40 million times more than last year. Over 40% of Australians check their mobile phones even in the middle of the night. Smartphones and tablets have permeated every sphere of our lives; we make travel and cinema bookings, check for news updates, organise our diaries and
