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The Chief Psychology Officer
Exploring the topics of workplace psychology and conscious leadership. Amanda is an award-winning Chartered Psychologist, with vast amounts of experience in talent strategy, resilience, facilitation, development and executive coaching. A Fellow of the Association for Business Psychology and an Associate Fellow of the Division of Occupational Psychology within the British Psychological Society (BPS), Amanda is also a Chartered Scientist. Amanda is a founder CEO of Zircon and is an expert in leadership in crisis, resilience and has led a number of research papers on the subject; most recently Psychological Safety in 2022 and Resilience and Decision-making in 2020. With over 20 years’ experience on aligning businesses’ talent strategy with their organizational strategy and objectives, Amanda has had a significant impact on the talent and HR strategies of many global organizations, and on the lives of many significant and prominent leaders in industry. Dr Amanda Potter can be contacted on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/amandapotterzircon www.theCPO.co.uk
The Chief Psychology Officer
Ep54 Why Good Managers Bully
Why do managers bully their people? What do they hope will happen? What does Psychology and Neuroscience say about bullying at work? In this episode Amanda and Caitlin look at the science, the psychology and the neuroscience to try to unpick this difficult topic.
This episode title was recommended by Julie Grosvenor from Dudley MBC, at the NW Coaching & Mentoring Conference in November 2023 in Birmingham. Thank you Julie for recommending this episode.
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Timestamps
Why Good Managers Bully
· 00:00 – Introduction to Why Good Managers Bully
· 01:04 – A subject we’re all talking about
· 02:09 – I didn’t want to start the day like this…
· 03:18 – I’m just trying to be nice!
· 04:12 – Hypercriticism
· 05:27 – Yeah; I’m gonna need you to come in on Saturday
· 06:36 – Being a total Gareth Keenan
· 08:31 – You’re your own worst enemy
“My only real motivation is not to be hassled” – Peter Gibbons, Office Space
· 10:03 – Stick and Stick situation
· 11:08 – Why do the managers do this?
· 12:36 – I’m just built differently
· 13:32 – I didn’t know I’m like that…
· 14:53 – The toxic workplace
· 16:35 – Occam’s Razor
· 18:20 – Personal potential to bully
· 19:19 – Neuroscience!
· 20:54 – Look at it from their point of view
Looking beyond objectivity
· 22:18 – It’s stressing me out!
· 22:58 – The hive is against the queen
· 24:47 – Scars don’t just go away
· 26:16 – Let’s talk about it…
· 27:53 – Is it possible to measure bullying?
· 28:24 – Utilize the 360.
· 29:01 – The Importance of Coaching
· 30:08 – The end.
Episodes are available here https://www.thecpo.co.uk/
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To access the research white papers mentioned in this and other podcasts, please go to: https://zircon-mc.co.uk/zircon-white-papers.php
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