172: How to Handle Workplace Bullying, with Jill Morgenthaler
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2014
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Jill Morgenthaler: The Courage to Take Command
“I’m not going to change the culture, but I can adjust the behavior.” -Jill Morgenthaler
- Sometimes bullies don’t know they’re bullies.
- Ensure that we don’t become the bullies ourselves.
- Aggressiveness vs. assertiveness.
- When people starting to show disrespect, he would stop it immediately.
- Hang back and watch when moving into a new situation.
- Ask people how they want to be rewarded.
- Never ask anyone something that you’re not willing to do.
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| 0:00.0 | We spoke a few months ago about how to deal with a boss who's a jerk, but what do you do when there's |
| 0:06.7 | bullies in the organization or maybe the organization itself is bullying you. Today a unique perspective |
| 0:15.0 | from someone who has been a trailblazer |
| 0:17.0 | and lessons for all of us in tough leadership situations. |
| 0:21.0 | This is coaching for leaders episode 172. |
| 0:24.8 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:29.6 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. |
| 0:36.0 | This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:40.0 | This is a weekly show to help leaders improve their communication, coaching, strategy, productivity, and personal mastery. |
| 0:50.0 | And I'm so glad that you are back with me today because today an important conversation that is one that is something I think many leaders run into but isn't something we always talk about a lot in |
| 1:03.7 | organizations and certainly not in leadership training courses which is |
| 1:07.9 | how do we navigate difficult situations in leadership and how do we navigate |
| 1:12.2 | situations when we're dealing with bullies |
| 1:14.3 | and particularly when the bullies are the people that are leading us and I have someone |
| 1:19.2 | with me today who I think is just uniquely qualified to speak on this not only with her success in her career |
| 1:27.6 | but through her experience of where she led and at the time that she's led in her career and that person is |
| 1:36.7 | Jill Morgantaller. Jill is a retired colonel in the United States Army and was one of the early women officers to join |
| 1:45.8 | the US Army when the Army first started really welcoming women I say welcoming a |
| 1:52.2 | little tongue-in-cheek which we'll talk about a little bit more. welcoming women into the military and she is the author of the book the courage to take |
| 2:01.4 | command leadership lessons from a military trailblazer. |
| 2:06.0 | And Colonel, I don't know, welcoming maybe a little bit of a strong word, isn't it? |
| 2:11.6 | Yeah, it was Uncle Sam wanted me but back then not necessarily the men. |
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