The Bully Proof Workplace Essential Strategies Tips And Scripts For Dealing With The Office Sociopath

Smart strategies for managing workplace bullies out of your life and business More than one in four Americans deals with an on-the-job bully. These office sociopaths don’t just make individuals miserable. Their poison spreads throughout the company, damaging overall morale, creativity, productivity, and profitability. It doesn’t have to be this way. Leading consultants Peter Dean and Molly Shepard have helped vanquish workplace bullying and now share their proven methods with you. In The Bully-Proof Workplace, they provide vital insight into the four major types of bullies: The Belier | Weapons of choice: slander, deception, and gossip The Blocker | Weapons of choice: negativity and inflexibility The Braggart | Weapons of choice: narcissism and a sense of superiority The Brute | Weapons of choice: aggression and intimidation These bullies may operate differently, but they all have one thing in common: a desperate need for control based on deep-seated fear and insecurity. This invaluable survival guide equips individuals with strategies, tips, and scripts for managing interactions with bullies. Managers learn how to identify bullying, deal with it swiftly, and introduce zero tolerance for such behavior. And executives gain the information they need to create a corporate policy regarding bullying. We spend about 60 percent of our waking moments at work. Spending that much time under the thumb of a bully and dealing with the negative business effects of bad behavior is simply unacceptable. Whether you’re a victim of bullying or a business leader tasked with building a collaborative corporate culture, The Bully-Free Workplace provides the critical insight and practical tools you need to successfully combat this ubiquitous but rarely addressed business challenge and ensure that bullies behave—or leave—so you and everyone else can get on with your work.

Breaking into the Boys' Club is the ultimate guide to success for women in business. No matter what stage in your career or what job position you hold, this book offers you practical, relatable ways to evaluate your work style and workplace culture in order to better understand behavior that may be holding you back from advancing in your field.

PETER J. DEAN, Ph.D. is the head of Leaders By Design, the men’s leadership development and executive coaching division of The Leader’s Edge. With over 40 years of national and international experience, Peter bases his executive coaching and consulting work on current research and best practices in the field of leadership development. Leaders By Design helps executives recognize and understand the intricacies inherent in global leadership and dealing with diverse cultures and sub-cultures. Peter worked in Europe and Asia for 8 years and has lectured, consulted and coached in 14 countries. He is a prolific author whose articles have frequently been published in a variety of news outlets and he has also authored 11 books in his career including: Leadership for Everyone (McGraw-Hill, 2005); and his most recent book, The Bully-Proof Workplace: Essential Strategies, Tips and Scripts for Dealing with the Office Sociopath (McGraw-Hill, 2017), which he co-authored with his partner and spouse Molly Shepard. He was a lecturer in Communication, Ethics and Leadership at The Wharton School and the Fels Center of Government both at The University of Pennsylvania. Peter held the O. Alfred Granum Chair in Management at The American College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and he has been on the faculty at Fordham University, University of Tennessee, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Iowa. Peter holds his PhD from the University of Iowa and a MS degree from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2018, Peter received an Applied Neuroscience Certificate on the Science of the Art of Coaching endorsed by ION, ICF and the Association for Coaching.

From the bestselling author of How to Talk to Anyone comes a book dedicated to helping business professionals at any level communicate for success on the jobYou face tough communication challenges every day at work, both in person and online—a toxic boss, backstabbing coworkers, office politics, and much more. Here are immediate, effective, eye-opening actions you can take to resolve those infuriating problems. You will find stories and examples drawn from corporate communications consultant Leil Lowndes’s more than 20 years of training business professionals, from entry-level new hires to CEOs. To succeed today, you must exhibit these crucial qualities, the 5 Cs:CONFIDENCE 10 ways to show your boss and colleagues you are 100 percent self-assured and can achieve whatever you want—and reinforce this image throughout your entire working relationshipCARING 14 strategies to demonstrate you care about your colleagues and the company because “people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care” CLARITY 12 techniques to get your ideas across clearly—and ensure you understand everybody you work withCREDIBILITY14 methods to win the trust and respect of everyone at your company—and impress people who find you on the web COEXISTENCE (WITH CRUEL BOSSES & CRAZY COLLEAGUES)21 tactics to confront the number one workplace nightmare and come out shiningPlus one final astonishing technique to guarantee success and happiness in your professional life. After you’ve mastered the unique “bag of little tricks” in this book, you will know How to Talk to Anyone at Work!

Here is a Proven System That Gives Parents Control Over Bullying. Bullying is just like a fire in your home. If you do not deal with it quickly, it grows and consumes your family. Bullying is not going away so How to Stop a Bully shows families how to recognize, avoid, and deal with bullies at school, work, and online with cyber bullies. In this book, you will learn a "real-world" approach to dealing with bullies. This book is not full of statistics. Who cares? Bullying exists and will not go away. Get prepared with this book.This book is not full of theory-based strategies like making the bully your friend. All we care about is the safety of your child.This book will not "Bully-Proof" your child. NO ONE is bully-proof. Anyone can be bullied. We will make your child bully-resistant.Is This You?1. Are you or your child the victim of bullying?2. Are you tired of empty promises from school officials to "do something" and never do anything?3. Are you looking for a proven solution to bring your bullying nightmare to a quick end? This book is your answer.Our Law Enforcement-Based Protocol Covers All Bases Like an InvestigationYou'll discover how to create evidence logs, chain of custody, and how to keep your children out of Shark Infested Waters.We Shift Control to Parents So They Know What to DoMore often than not, parents feel powerless to help their child deal with bullies. They are either busy at work or simply don't have the experience or resources to help. This program gives you that resource. We show parents how to take control of a bullying situation. This is a Step-by-Step, Easy to Follow ProgramWe provide you with letter templates, scripts, and strategies so you never have to face the bully's pLearn How to Recognize, Avoid, and Stop Bullying Every TimeHere is a Proven System That Gives Parents Control Over BullyingIf a small fire started in the corner of your living room, would you wait to put it out? Would you sit on your couch until the fire got bigger? Bullying is just like that fire. If you do not deal with it quickly, it grows and consumes your family.In this book, you will learn a "real-world" approach to dealing with bullies. This book is not full of statistics. Who cares about percentages? We need a plan to stop bullying and this book shows you how. Bullying exists and will not go away. Get prepared with this book.This book is not full of theory-based strategies like making the bully your friend. All we care about is the safety of your child.This book will not "Bully-Proof" your child. NO ONE is bully-proof. Anyone can be bullied. We will make your child bully-resistant.Is This You?1. Are you or your child the victim of bullying?2. Are you tired of empty promises from school officials to "do something" and never do anything?3. Are you looking for a proven solution to bring your bullying nightmare to a quick end?This book is your answer.Our Law Enforcement-Based Protocol Covers All Bases Like an InvestigationYou'll discover how to create evidence logs, chain of custody, and how to keep your children out of Shark Infested Waters.We Shift Control to Parents So They Know What to DoMore often than not, parents feel powerless to help their child deal with bullies. They are either busy at work or simply don't have the experience or resources to help. This program gives you that resource. We show parents how to take control of a bullying situation. This is a Step-by-Step, Easy to Follow ProgramWe provide you with letter templates, scripts, and strategies so you never have to face the bully's parents or school authorities. We show you what to do and how to do.We provide you with letter templates, scripts, and strategies so you never have to face the bully's parents or school authorities. We show you what to do and how to do.

PETER J. DEAN, Ph.D. is the head of Leaders By Design, the men's leadership development and executive coaching division of The Leader's Edge. With over 40 years of national and international experience, Peter bases his executive coaching and consulting work on current research and best practices in the field of leadership development. Leaders By Design helps executives recognize and understand the intricacies inherent in global leadership and dealing with diverse cultures and sub-cultures. Peter worked in Europe and Asia for 8 years and has lectured, consulted and coached in 14 countries. He is a prolific author whose articles have frequently been published in a variety of news outlets and he has also authored 11 books in his career including: Leadership for Everyone (McGraw-Hill, 2005); and his most recent book, The Bully-Proof Workplace: Essential Strategies, Tips and Scripts for Dealing with the Office Sociopath (McGraw-Hill, 2017), which he co-authored with his partner and spouse Molly Shepard. He was a lecturer in Communication, Ethics and Leadership at The Wharton School and the Fels Center of Government both at The University of Pennsylvania. Peter held the O. Alfred Granum Chair in Management at The American College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and he has been on the faculty at Fordham University, University of Tennessee, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Iowa. Peter holds his PhD from the University of Iowa and a MS degree from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2018, Peter received an Applied Neuroscience Certificate on the Science of the Art of Coaching endorsed by ION, ICF and the Association for Coaching.

In this informative and practical guide, two seasoned vegans offer tips and advice for thriving without animal by-products. Sometimes funny and irreverent, yet always aware of its serious message, this resource for being vegan in a world that doesn’t always understand or have sympathy for the lifestyle illustrates how to: go vegan in three weeks or less by employing a "cold tofu method"; convince family, friends, and others that there is no such thing as a vegan cult; and survive restaurants, grocery stores, and meals with omnivores.

Critical Pedagogy addresses the shortcomings of mainstream educational theory and practice and promotes the humanization of teacher and student. Where Critical Pedagogy is often treated as a discourse of academics in universities, this book explores the applications of Critical Pedagogy to actual classroom situations. Written in a straight-forward, concise, and lucid form by an American high school teacher, drawing examples from literature, film, and, above all, the everyday classroom, this book is meant to provoke thought in teachers, students and education activists as we transform our classrooms into democratic sites. From grading to testing, from content area disciplines to curriculum planning and instruction, from the social construction of knowledge to embodied cognition, this book takes the theories behind Critical Pedagogy and illustrates them at work in common classroom environments.