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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In the emergency services, where people may have to depend on one another for their lives, the professionalism and integrity of people in leadership positions is particularly important.
Yet it seems you don’t have to wait too long at the moment, before another news report emerges somewhere ...
72% of people who said they experienced workplace bullying didn't report it to HR, according to an October 2024 national survey of 1,000 UK workers by law firm Wright Hassall.
You wouldn’t think an apology was a particularly difficult concept, would you? So why then, for many organisations and individuals, does “sorry” seem to be the hardest word?
What is it about making an apology - and getting that apology right - that's not straightforward? How do you make an ...
How does the culture of an emergency services organisation create barriers that prevent those who’ve experienced serious misconduct, from speaking up about their colleagues - a phenomenon described in research as “the blue wall of silence”?
Emergency services are organisations held in high ...
"You can actually change an organisational culture in three months"
Workplace incivility, bullying, and harassment can cause serious harm to people affected - both physical and psychological, while it's happening, in the immediate aftermath, and ...
What happens when an organisation is made aware of workplace bullying?
Do people who have the courage to stand up against workplace bullying find themselves supported or silenced by the very people who are supposed to be there to help?
In this first episode of a two-part series, we look at the experience of a committed HR professional who found themselves on the wrong side of bullying - and became a target themselves.
In work (as in our personal life), one would like to think that most people want to make a positive difference with the decisions they make and the things that they do.
To do a good job; to improve and learn about new ideas that'll help make things simpler, easier and better for themselves ...
That’s the question that Pete Wakefield, host of The Firefighters Podcast, put to me to kick off a wide-ranging discussion on the thorny topic of workplace incivility, bullying and harassment in UK Fire and Rescue ...
