Are You Being Bullied at Work?: How to Recover From, Prevent and Cope with a Toxic Workplace

'A remarkable resource, full of useful advice on a very serious topic.' Joy Orpen, Sunday Independent

'A brilliant, insightful guide .... essential reading for everyone.' Professor Donal MacIntyre, investigative journalist and broadcaster

Workplace bullying can be a toxic experience. It can lead to plummeting self-esteem, destroy your self-confidence and impair your ability to perform. In this invaluable guide, psychologist and executive coach Aryanne Oade provides insights, tools, strategies and tactics anyone can use to deal with any bullying situation at work.

Practical, empathetic and brimming with real-life examples, Oade's focus is positive and progressive throughout, encouraging readers to learn new skills, internalize new ways of thinking about themselves and the bullying they are subject to, and answer thought-provoking self-awareness questions. Each chapter has a useful summary of key facts that act as a quick reference point, and practical questions to challenge thinking and encourage self-reflection.

You will learn how to:

• Protect yourself against bullying behaviour at the time of an attack
• Understand the ways in which being targeted may have affected what you think, feel and believe, as well as how you behave at work
• Prevent a workplace bully from successfully grooming or targeting you in the future
• Regain your confidence after an experience of workplace bullying
• Support someone you know who is vulnerable to being targeted and doesn't know how to protect
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