With insights, analysis and interviews, Life at the Sharp End is a podcast for people who want to create safe, respectful and high-performing workplace cultures.
This kind of culture doesn't happen by accident. It takes leadership and commitment to ensure people can do their best and be themselves – free from the harm caused by workplace incivility, bullying and harassment.
This podcast helps people who want to do their best; people who want to learn from others, and lead by example demonstrating integrity and professionalism. People like you.
Wherever you work, and whatever you do, you’ll have a story to tell about what it’s like to experience Life at the Sharp End.
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HR practitioners, Professional Standards Units, complaints teams and workplace investigators are at the front-line of integrity and confidence in workplace misconduct complaint processes.
If you’re ever presented with allegations against senior executives — the people in charge who you might ...
'Trauma-informed' is a phrase that’s increasingly being used, but what does this mean in practical steps that leaders, managers, HR professionals, lawyers and colleagues supporting one another need to take?
Research studies have long established that workplace incivility, bullying and harassment ...
Are abrasive leaders just difficult people who need to be identified and removed from the workplace, or can they be persuaded to change their behaviour?
Do they even understand what their behaviour is like and the harm that this causes to others?
What do you do when you see something that’s just not right happening to someone nearby? Do you stand up and say something, or do you stand back and watch?
The role of bystanders in workplace incivility, bullying and harassment incidents is significant and their behaviour can influence the ...
Charlotte Hails is an ambitious woman in leadership who began her career in policing, rising to become a Detective Chief Inspector leading people in counter-terrorism, safeguarding and public protection.
But Charlotte’s experiences in policing also reflect the darker side of a workplace culture ...
Workplace bullying has been shown to increase the incidents of physical and psychological harm to the health of people targeted by this behaviour.
Physical harm includes an increased risk of serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular conditions (1), and psychological conditions such as anxiety ...
Protecting the mental health of the people who work in emergency services is a vital safeguard, given the situations they'll encounter during their career.
So why is there still a stigma associated with discussing mental health, and what can people working in this environment do, to better ...
