How Can HR Leaders Identify and Address Toxic Practices in the Workplace?
In HRchat episode 401, we attempt to offer you a glimpse into what it takes to review and revive your company culture.
My guest is Melanie Pump, a CFO with a passion for driving cultural change within organizations. She’s also the author of the best-selling book, Detox. Melanie says she wrote Detox to help leaders and employees everywhere learn how to truly thrive.
Instead of fostering a workplace that magnifies human frailties, Melanie says she can help you discover the strategies and practices to address your team’s emotional needs and unlock their true potential.
Listen and learn how to create a healthier, more secure environment for employees.
Questions For Melanie Include:
- How can HR leaders identify potentially toxic practices/attitudes in the workplace?
- What tools and tactics can they use to assess the real culture on the ‘shop floor’?
- Can you briefly run through the real, tangible impacts of toxic work environments that can diminish innovation, collaboration, succession planning, and productivity?
- How did you see some of these show up in work environments in your earlier career?
- What are some “natural insecurities and fears” within a team, and if they’re so natural, why do leaders tend to be so blind to them?
- How does insecurity affect team member performance?
- What are the subtle signs of a company culture that keeps team members from expressing their diverse ideas? What are some perceived dangers of “pushing back”?
- What are some of your strategies to reduce workplace uncertainty”?
- How can leaders bring their team members together in an authentic way? Can you now talk to me about a few of the ways to shape a non-toxic, collaborative corporate environment?
More About Melanie
Melanie is part of the team at Brane Capital, an independent partner for digital asset custody. Particularly attuned to the critical effects of a toxic environment, Melanie spent more than twenty years of progressive corporate experience studying the impact leaders and workplace cultures have on employee security and performance.