Simple Conflict Resolution Tips for Dealing with a Toxic Manager or Supervisor

Do you enjoy your projects but have felt like your manager or supervisor may be toxic? Short of finding a position with another company or department, have you ever wondered what conflict resolution strategies might help? Well, to help reduce stressful professional and personal challenges; I strive to provide the best of my tried and tested resources to support you. I encourage you to start practicing cognitive behavior therapy this week!

CBT Can Help

Cognitive behavior therapy can help you reduce your stress, improve your relationship with your manager or supervisor, and overcome personal and professional challenges. It is essential to focus on becoming more aware of your perceptions, beliefs, and attitude that contribute to why you feel your manager or supervisor may be toxic. How can you adjust your mindset so that you can perceive your manager or supervisor in a different light? Have you tried to understand the attitudes, motivations, and behaviors of your toxic manager or supervisor?

The cognitive behavior therapy cycle includes the following elements:

·       Event

·       Thoughts

·       Emotions

·       Behavior

·       Physical Response

As an example, if you have experienced a confrontation with your manager or supervisor in the past, then this confrontation event could influence your current thoughts. If you feel that your manager is toxic, then you may become increasingly frustrated, short-tempered, nervous, and agitated by your manager. This tension if not deescalated could later result in you in arguing with your manager, choosing to leave your position or taking more sick days from the emotional strain.  As a result, not only would you impede your workplace productivity, workplace concentration, and overall energy to get your work done.

Instead, consider working with an experienced mental health and wellness coach who could help you transform your mindset into a more positive outlook?

Talk About Your Feelings, Think about Facts, & The Shared Goal

A simple tool of conflict resolution is to speak about how you feel instead of what the other person may have done that bothers you. This allows your point to be solid and difficult to argue with. Your feelings are a great focus point when resolving conflicts vs. pointing out direct actions of bad behavior done by your boss.

Maybe your supervisor forgets to communicate details for projects and then gets upset when you didn’t read his or her mind. Maybe your supervisor has a habit of reprimanding or speaking rudely to you in front of your peers. Or maybe you have a supervisor who talks over you whenever you speak up in the team meeting. Let’s identify your feelings for the scenarios we just identified. You may be feeling disrespected, frustrated, or stressed as a result of toxic interactions with your manager. Next let’s think of what you want to happen instead, also known as your ask. Maybe you want you manager to increase detail communication, speak with you one to one for feedback, or to allow you to finish your thought without interruption at the team meeting. Ask for what you want using conflict resolution.

Just remember the shared goal, what is the common ground that both you and your manager can agree upon. Let the shared goal be the anchor for your efforts of conflict resolution. Maybe it’s to give your customers or client’s first priority. Maybe the shared goal is a certain quality for your product. Maybe the shared goal is to offer an amazing client customer service experience. Whatever the shared goal is, you can usually find a way to connect it with your ask or what you want from your manager.

Are you concerned about how you respond to your manager due to fear of retaliation or increased exhaustion? Well, what if your workplace conflicts could be eliminated? Whenever you face professional or personal problems or obstacles, it’s easier to move forward when you have conflict resolution tools. I’m here to help you address your workplace wellness challenges, so you can step off the proverbial hamster wheel.

Get Support To Make it Easier

Contact me today for your free 10 minute wellness consultation, and let’s create a custom plan to resolve any tension or conflicts you have with your manager or supervisor. I have some great tools and strategies to help you practice workplace assertive speech, professional boundary setting, and implement workplace stress management tools too! We can work together to resolve your workplace conflicts that cause you to feel that your manager or supervisor is toxic. Let’s set structured goals together so you can address the office issues that cause you to feel workplace toxic stress.

Together, we can review your workplace conflicts and I will help you identify and implement my best workplace conflict resolution strategies. It’s time to leave your office place conflicts behind! Contact me today to learn more about how you can transform your wellness while you work mindset from frustrated to happy, healthy, and holistic.

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How to Stop Energy Sucks At The Office: Entrepreneurs and Employees

Is your office draining all of your energy? Are you exhausted more from workplace chaos than your actual work? Are you ready to block your energy vampires and improve your focus and productivity? You could be experiencing office or entrepreneur fatigue. You may have initially been excited to join or start your company with your new colleagues, but now you just feel continuously drained. Maybe now you can’t wait until your workday is over? Could your energy drain potentially be due to how you interact with your coworkers, or how they interact with you? In this article, we will discuss a few ways to help you improve your concentration and boost your office energy.

Think About What Changed

Have you reflected on why you feel your coworkers may be draining your energy? When you first started your individual business or office job, did you spend your personal time bonding with your colleagues or co space peers but have become so busy recently that you no longer feel like you fit-in? Or, do you not feel appreciated when you are always stepping up and overdelivering?

The Unwanted Work Distraction Game

Do you have that coworker who is always the drama king or queen, and you are exhausted by how emotional they may be? Perhaps, you are concerned about your coworkers gossiping and not focused on the pressing professional priorities? Do you have a coworker who is the constant talker and does not allow you to focus on your work because they are so distracting? What about the blamer and belittler you work closely with who never accepts their flaws and errors and always blames you? Or, the envious coworker who consistently fails to engage you on key opportunities. This person may fail to share critical information with you that would contribute to success on your projects?  Do you have specific team members whom you feel you are always spending more time cleaning up after and revising their work?

Talk It Out With Tools

Have you tried mindfully discussing how you feel with your coworkers? Have you scheduled a team meeting or even a retreat so that you all can review what has been going well, what needs to be revised, and discussing strategies so that you can all work together more effectively towards accomplishing your goals? Would a virtual or in-person team bonding retreat be beneficial? This might be a great opportunity to talk through goals with the team or to explain any changes you need to make independently in order to get your work done in a meaningful way moving forward.

The Difficult Contractor ROI

Are you feeling an energy drain from hiring team members to support with contract aspects of your project but now you’re realizing they aren’t as strong as you would have hoped regardless of the amount of energy you provide. Naturally, you may consider your return on investment from your contractor team member.  Are you wondering about letting them go? TIP: As difficult as it may be, try to process your personal feelings and attitude about your contract based team member. ASK YOURSELF: Does my attitude or feelings distract me from what may be best for me professionally regarding this contract team member. If so, it may be time to part ways with your contractor, nothing personal. You can still stay in touch with the colleague personally (if you feel like it) but perhaps working together professionally may not be ideal.

Coping Through it All- Take Care of Yourself at Work

Do you feel increasingly frustrated during certain parts of the day? ASK YOURSELF: Does this agitation  distract my productivity? What’s getting in my way? Take a break to clear your head if you can. Consider meditating or going for a walk to reset. Sometimes, a break may be exactly what you need to refresh and think with a clearer perspective. You could also remember the cool and helpful aspects of working with your team members. Try to remember your why for the work you are doing.

If you are seeking conflict resolution strategies for stressful co-worker relationships, then consider contacting me for your free ten-minute wellness consultation. Talking with a Holistic Mental Health Therapist could help! Let’s talk about and resolve your frustration, your energy recovery opportunities, and any concerns you have. Together, we can discuss strategies to help you adjust your mindset for real energy recovery results and feeling successful at the office.

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I hope you enjoyed learning about my favorite office energy recovery strategies. Be sure to share your real life work place wellness issues below! I will try to share more posts for you to help you keep up a healthy self care practice.

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Joining my Online Glow Fit Life Group Wellness Program. Each month, we will discuss ways for you to eat healthier, exercise better, decrease your stress more effectively, increase your energy daily, and track your progress along your journey towards a healthier and happier you.

Sign up for your free ten-minute wellness consultation session to help you glow and live a happier lifestyle. Together, let’s use our Online Therapy and Wellness Coaching sessions to help you overcome your seasonal depression so that you may live your best life during this holiday season and to help you start fresh during the start of the new year.

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