Create a Healthy Workplace: Understand Workplace Bullying & Combat the Damage They Cause

Workplace bullies use negative, aggressive, extremely unprofessional, inappropriate and hurtful tactics against subordinates, peers, and even superiors. Workplace bullying is unwanted, negative, and ongoing abusive behaviors that create a power imbalance between the bully and peers; and invite serious damaging consequences to targets, witnesses and organizations.

30 – 54% of working adults report having been bullied at some point in their working lives; and 30% of them quit as a result. Targets experience distress, humiliation, anger, anxiety, discouragement, hopelessness, depression, burnout, reduced quality and quantity of work, lower levels of job satisfaction, increased absenteeism and turnover and in some cases even Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). For the organization, all of this adds up to loss to the bottom line, communication breakdown and even a bad reputation within the community.

Bullying is not simply the case of a bad behaving employee. It is systemic, and requires management attention and commitment to develop a healthy workplace.

Participants in this webinar will gain:

• An understanding of workplace bullying, damage caused to targets and the organization, and why it’s legal
• Insight on bullies’ and their targets
• Comprehensive knowledge in the system of bullying and why it happens at work
• Knowledge in how to determine how much a bully is costing your organization
• Management tools for immediate corrective action and handling grievances
• Management tools for preventative action, including policy implementation
• Techniques for a sustainable organizational culture shift

Who Should Attend:

Human resources, workplace learning and performance professionals, business owners, managers, team leaders, supervisors, coaches and business management consultants. 

Presenter Bios

Catherine Mattice is an inter-organizational communications professional with several years experience in customer relations, human resources, strategic business development & management, and training. Catherine’s consulting firms, Catherine Mattice Consulting and NoWorkplaceBullies focus on formal communication processes and documents, internal relationships, successful new employee integration, strategic organizational culture shifts and healthy workplaces. Catherine holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in Organizational Communication from San Diego State University and is an internationally recognized consultant and researcher in the field of workplace bullying. She frequently appears on the local news as a human capital management expert, has published several articles nationwide, and has presented her research internationally.

Catherine also currently teaches at National University and ITT Technical Institute in the subjects of group dynamics, world cultures, social psychology, public speaking, business ethics and professional procedures/resume writing; and serves on the Program Advisory Committee at California College. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the American Society of Training & Development, San Diego Chapter, and is working with the Board of Directors for the newly created International Association of Workplace Bullying as the Corporate Membership Recruiter & Coordinator and resident expert in business development.