Workplace Mediation Blog

The Manipulative Employee

  The workplace environment is rife with different (and difficult) personalities. This is to be expected and embraced. After all, doesn’t diversity bring about a more dynamic, productive and innovative workforce? If we all thought the same way and did things the same way, where would creativity and innovation be? However, on the flip side […]

Workplace bullying – is mediation appropriate?

Workplace bullying – is mediation appropriate?

Bullying and harassment is nothing new to the workplace. However, because our world is becoming socially more conscious with the advent of movements such as  #MeToo and  #TimesUp, people are becoming more courageous about bringing these issues out into the open.  A question I have pondered as a workplace mediator is whether mediation is the […]

Advice for employees experiencing bullying in the workplace

Bullying at Work Segal Conflict Solutions

While it seems that in today’s socially conscious world, many progressive organisations are trying their best to eradicate bullying and are moving towards adopting zero-tolerance policies towards bullying, bullying still appears to be pervasive in Australian workplaces. As a workplace mediator and investigator, I often come across situations where bullying is clearly present in a […]

Busting an HR Myth

Paris Cutler - HR Myth interview

Recently, I was lucky enough to interview Paris Cutler, an entrepreneur and strategist whose organisation went through many months of conflict and disharmony. What struck me most from the interview was her acknowledgement that she was unsure about how to deal with the toxicity that had arisen in her workplace together with the uncertainty of […]

4 Reasons Companies Ignore Workplace Bullying

Workplace Bullying

As a workplace mediator and investigator, I am often called in by organisations to help resolve a conflict which has arisen between employees. I commonly find that by the time I am called in, the matter has escalated from a relatively minor workplace bullying incident, into a full-blown dispute between the parties. The escalation of […]

Is Musk’s style of leadership one to emulate?

Elon Musk

Elon Musk has been in the news recently for all the wrong reasons. His ongoing tweets including his recent bizarre and inappropriate comments about the British cave diver in Thailand are raising red flags on Wall Street. We have seen that Musk doesn’t like being questioned on Tesla’s financial viability, labelling questions from journalists as […]