Jessica HickmanThought Leader | TEDx Speaker | 2 x Author | Leadership

Toxic Work Woes? Discover Step 1 to Upstander Victory! 🏆🚀

Name: Toxic Work Woes? Discover Step 1 to Upstander Victory! 🏆🚀
Uploaded: 2023-04-10T06:13:01+00:00
Duration: 1 min 11 s
Channel: Jessica Hickman
Description: Jessica Hickman explains the first step to becoming an upstander in a toxic workplace: observe your environment and yourself. Notice how you respond to…

10 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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Jessica Hickman explains the first step to becoming an upstander in a toxic workplace: observe your environment and yourself. Notice how you respond to colleagues, where bullies and victims are, and where you stand on the bystander-upstander spectrum. Self-awareness is the foundation for shifting toward supportive action.

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So step number 1 is to look, to observe your current environment, to think about some of the relationships and dynamics playing out in your workplace. How do you respond to your colleagues when they ask you a question? Are you closed off and short, or are you receptive and kind? I want you to imagine after the session today that you zoom out of your workplace Imagine you're hovering over it like an eagle from a third-party perspective. I want you to observe how things are playing out, some of their interactions, the relationships. How is the workplace culture? Do we have bullies and perpetrators of injustice? Do we have people they prey on and target? Do we have bystanders that defuse responsibility? I want you to observe where you currently sit on the bystander versus upstander pendulum and think about your interactions. I want you to simply look and observe your workplace environment and think about how you can be an upstander. So step number 1 is look.