Oade Associates works with individual people, small groups and large audiences to resolve the issues created by incidents of bullying in the workplace.
Investing in these services to address the issues created by workplace bullying enables employers to preserve the psychological contract between themselves and their employees. It can also result in significant savings for their organisation. The financial benefits of addressing issues created by workplace bullies include reducing or avoiding costs associated with:
- Paying off employees who use bullying behaviour.
- Losing talented employees subject to or witness to workplace bullying as they choose to work elsewhere.
- Recruiting and developing replacement staff.
- Poor performance from employees whose motivation and confidence are lowered due to incidents of workplace bullying.
- Conducting investigations into complaints of workplace bullying.
- Managing grievance procedures and internal disciplinary processes following complaints about workplace bullying.
- Discussing how to handle team issues created by the use of bullying behaviour.
Outcomes We Can Create for Your Organisation
Oade Associates offers three tailored solutions to incidents of workplace bullying which you can explore using the links to the right. Working with us can enable your organisation to:
- Equip employees who use bullying behaviour with effective influencing, managing and people-handling skills instead.
- Train its line managers to confront bullying behaviour quickly and effectively.
- Regain the commitment of employees subject to bullying behaviour by offering them coaching to de-toxify from their experience and development in the skills they need to handle any future incidents effectively.
- Convince employees subject to bullying behaviour, and those who witness it, that these actions will be confronted and that the employees using them will be held accountable and offered coaching.
- Retain talented people who might otherwise decide to work elsewhere after being subject to or witness to bullying behaviour.
- Send a clear message that while bullying behaviour will not be tolerated neither will the organisation be easily persuaded to pay off employees who bully.
- Demonstrate a clear commitment to tackling bullying behaviour in its workplaces.
