Anyone who’s been in the workplace for more than – oh, let’s say a week – has run into a workplace bully. Any person who throws his or her weight around with utter disregard for the negative emotional and mental consequences for those around them is a bully, pure and simple.
Workplace bullies are a fact of life. So is cancer. That doesn’t mean we have to take either one of them lying down. You need to challenge the bully, but in a way that solves more problems than it creates. (more…)