The toxic work environment

Struggling to sleep at night. Spending your days on edge. Your days off you cannot wind down and relax. Going to work fills you with dread. Every time your phone rings you wonder if its that poisioning colleague that makes you life hell.

How often do we hear this? People who have jobs that actually make them sick. Where will their motivation be? Will they stay in the company? Who knows - the only definate is they will never be working to their optimum, plus, we are nice people and don't want to make others unhappy, do we?!

It al starts with leadership. Any leader/manager should never let this state of mind, culture if you will, infiltrate the organisation. Often it can be the leader/manager themselves that create such a toxic environment to work in.

So what do we do???

Many times it is impossible for people to speak up. Either from fear or there is not the avenue to do such things. Making use of Human Factors Consultants can provide an impartial avenue for teams to speak up and allow the consultants to present options to ensure synergy within teams is restored. A fresh pair of eyes! That is the job of a consultant, to give organisations the “true” oversight into achieving objectives.