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Workplace toxicity
Let’s remember our humanness, our workplace responsibilities, and our compassion.
If you see someone struggling please check-in, support, and speak up.
Psychological safety (and wellbeing) and psychological health and safety - it IS ok to talk about both
I recently read (in a conference blurb that I intend on attending) that many people are ‘butchering the understanding of psychological health and safety’, and that one of the key red flags of this butchering is if the person quotes Amy Edmonson (as I do constantly).
Resilience (yes again)
‘Resilience isn’t just about learning ways to cope with unfavourable situations, but about identifying ways that will help you move forward so you don’t get ‘stuck’ in places that are detrimental to your overall wellbeing.’
2024 Here we go
I want 2024 to be a great year! not a good year but a GREAT year. I want to be engaged, compassionate, and of course respectful - to everyone I meet but also to myself.
2023 that’s a wrap!
I feel like this year has been a year of contradictions; it was long but also flew by, crazy busy but with time for a couple of nice holiday breaks, healthy but with some bouts of sickness, full of rewards and full of frustrations.
My unexpected unconscious bias
Awareness trumps ignorance.
Conscious inclusion trumps bias.
Why do sensible, professional adults act like toddlers?
I am gobsmacked by defensive, angry people/adults in workplaces who are firmly set on ‘pay-back’ and revenge who could instead attempt to listen with compassion and empathy.
Fence sitter?
I very much value listening above talking – Could that be perceived as fence-sitting?
Work IS emotional
Whether you believe in ‘work to live’ or ‘live to work’ most of us think about work and about our workplace relationships during our non-work hours.
The respect dance
It’s been a busy and reflectful couple of months at my house. Not only has there been the usual fun and coordination of summer activity - balancing socialising with work, but my father-in-law also moved in with us in December.
A Tasmanian Human Rights Act, 2022 stats, and an ambitious project
Here we are again heading towards the end of another year, my 2021 December blog included a summary of the year’s work so I will get to that, but I also want to mention the (fingers crossed) ramping up of momentum for a Human Rights Act in Tasmania.
Unpacking respect
My neighbour is a primary school teacher, chatting the other day she said that in her class every morning begins with a discussion about respect. How great is that!
RUOK? Day 2022
You don’t have to be an expert to have a meaningful R U OK? conversation. Ask R U OK? No qualifications needed.
What do you do when you feel disrespected at work?
Once you have checked your perspective and gathered your facts, practice self-advocacy, approach the person and speak to them about how their behaviour is making you feel.
Remember that you have the right to be treated with respect and compassion.
Respect - is there a universal definition?
Respect is always simply about acknowledging and valuing others with consideration and without judgement.
27 years later…
Who would have thought that I and vocational education would progress so far – ‘What is this internet thing and what’s it got to do with me??’
- Roz 1993 😊
Did you hear about Maggie?
Is gossip like an addiction that some find near impossible to quit?
Who are you?
Our cultural self helps to define our identity.
Who I am is influenced by my upbringing, my family, life experiences, education, relationships, work experiences, trauma, tragedy, successes and failures.
Is there a greater expectation for women to smile?
Do women have the same level of psychological safety as men? Always? Frustratingly there are still so many examples of women being treated differently.