Month: April 2011

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Reducing Workplace Violence

Unfortunately, workplace violence is on the rise in our workplaces. The incidences of violence are varied and alarming if we don’t stop to think of our ability to create and contribute to peace.

Our guest today is a colleague Johnny Lee who is the

Director of Peace@Work, an agency dedicated to the prevention of violence in and through the workplace and the providers of the ePanic Button, a software duress alarm program.  His previous experience includes his role as the Training Director for the UNC-Chapel Hill Injury Prevention Research Center’s PREVENT program, delivering a national violence prevention training program. He was previously also the Workplace Violence Specialist for the Office of State Personnel in Raleigh, North Carolina.  His responsibilities included consulting state agencies on the development and revision of their workplace violence programs.

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Civility at Work

Our guest today is Lew Bayer, a civility expert.  Do you want to increase civility in your workplace? Incidences of bullying, harassment and disrespect is on the rise in the workplace.  It would be wonderful to have less of these and more peace and wellness in the workplace.  Lew will provide listeners with tips to improve civility at work.

Peace and wellness

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Handling Pressure

How do you handle pressure? Do you become hard, cold and aloof or are you using this learning time to find your best self? Often my clients complain that they have found themselves reacting to pressure in a manner that is not too pleasant. Some of us wilt; some shatter and others grow more difficult because of life pressures. From time to time it’s good to do a brief self-assessment to see where and how we are doing.

Here are five ways you can assess if you are doing well with pressure:

  1. Have you stopped smiling as often?
  2. Are you neglecting those closest to you?
  3. Do you take time to do things for yourself?
  4. Do you find time to have fun?
  5. Do you take time to meditate and wind down?

It’s important to know that all of us will face pressure of some sort at one point in our life. What we need to remember is that it’s okay to take a break even in the midst of the storm to refresh ourselves. Often taking that one moment away from our pressure is the key to finding that brilliant thought or break through. Of course you could also take that time off to sit down with your coach to get a fresh perspective that can help you to see things differently.

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Building Trust

Trust is a major part in the foundation of interpersonal relationships. Trust is necessary to help build and maintain relationship wellness, whether it is between parents and children, friends, lovers or co-workers. Some things we do can make it just as easy to build trust as it is to break it down on a daily basis. If your interpersonal relationships are plagued by that deadly element called “ambiguity, suspicion, and fear” then you may want to begin some trust-building steps. Trust is an act, I refer to it as a very rather than a noun and encourage those I work with to remember to take actions towards building and maintaining trust in their interpersonal relationships. We learn to trust, as we learn to love. Trust is something that is developed by taking action either to let ourselves trust or to earn trust through consistent actions. Sometimes trust is also lost or destroyed by a single act. This is why we should be good interpersonal relationship stewards and ensure that we are making wise choices about whom we trust.

How do you go about deciding who to trust and when to trust them?