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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Are abrasive leaders just difficult people who need to be identified and removed from the workplace, or can they be persuaded to change their behaviour?
Do they even understand what their behaviour is like and the harm that this causes to others?
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 ...
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 ...
