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Feedback Done Right: 3 Tips to Avoid Abrasive Feedback & Create Psychological Safety

By Bonnie Artman Fox / September 19, 2024
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To avoid abrasive feedback while maintaining psychological safety, it’s essential to communicate in a way that fosters growth without causing discomfort or offense. Many leaders think they can’t give constructive feedback and maintain psychological safety at the same time. Just last week, during a leadership training, a leader asked me, “How do I give feedback…

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Giving Recognition to your “Steady Eddy” Employees

By Bonnie Artman Fox / April 13, 2023
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As a leader, giving recognition to your “Steady Eddy” Employees is just as important as putting out fires. So much time goes to dealing with employees who exhibit disrespectful, abrasive, and overall negative behavior.  Before you know it, most of your attention has gone to the problem employee and overlook the employee whose behavior is…

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Say Goodbye To The Workplace Drama Triangle And Hello To Strong Boundaries

By Bonnie Artman Fox / March 30, 2023
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Have you encountered drama in your workplace lately? Let me introduce you to the Workplace Drama Triangle, its roles, and strategies for navigating and resolving conflict efficiently. It may sound like a silly question since leaders often describe disagreements as escalating into unnecessary drama that takes away from getting work done.  A conflict resolution called…

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How to Deal with an Abrasive Co-Worker or Boss

By Bonnie Artman Fox / March 2, 2023
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Do you know how to deal with an abrasive co-worker or boss? Are you sensing pushback when you try to connect with colleagues or bosses who are edgy, irritable, and short-tempered? Are you feeling a sense of pushback when you try to connect with colleagues or bosses who don’t know how to communicate?  Do you…

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Does your Staff Meeting Remind you of a Tense Holiday Meal?

By Bonnie Artman Fox / November 10, 2022
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Imagine you have a high-performing team member, let’s call him Rob.  He’s worked for your organization for years and knows your business inside out. While Rob is one of your most valued employees from a performance perspective, he has some rough edges in how he treats people. When projects don’t go as planned, his temper…

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4 Risks Executive Leaders Take When Abrasive Behavior Is Allowed

By Bonnie Artman Fox / October 20, 2022
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Addressing abrasive or any disruptive behavior in the workplace is messy and uncomfortable. But the risk of avoiding these difficult conversations is allowing the behavior to continue and infect your organization with a toxic culture. What makes addressing abrasive behavior even more challenging is if the employee is a top performer. This means they have…

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An Uncommon Yet Effective Approach to Address Abrasive Behavior

By Bonnie Artman Fox / October 6, 2022
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Casey is preparing for a conversation he’d rather avoid.  He’s about to meet with one of his top-performing managers who is a consistent high revenue generator for the company. The manager has been with the company for almost fifteen years and is widely respected for her expertise in their industry.    The conversation isn’t about the…

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5 Signs of Level Headed Leadership That Resolve Conflict Sooner Than Later

By Bonnie Artman Fox / September 22, 2022
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When you are in the midst of conflict, how likely are you to stay level headed? Meaning, you maintain a calm composure despite the sensation that your heart is about to beat outside of your chest. You’re able to listen with curiosity instead of blurting out what you really want to say and resist the urge to…

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5 Signs You Are a Distractor

5 Signs Distraction is Your Conflict Style and What You Can Do About It

By Bonnie Artman Fox / September 15, 2022
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When conflict happens on your team, do you tend to crack a joke or find another way to distract from the tension? Many people don’t like conflict and assume it means they’re doing something wrong. In reality, conflict is healthy and allows teams to get more clarity about differences or about the direction to take…

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5 Signs Controlling Leadership May be Contributing to Your Employee Turnover

5 Signs Controlling Leadership May Be Contributing to Your Employee Turnover

By Bonnie Artman Fox / September 1, 2022
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“It’s very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It’s easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.” – Fred Rogers The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to…

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