388: How to Protect Your Reputation, with Sharone Bar-David

Sharone Bar-David: Trust Your Canary

Sharone Bar-David is a leading Canadian expert on workplace incivility and author of Trust Your Canary: Every Leader’s Guide to Taming Workplace Incivility*. She is particularly passionate about her work with abrasive leaders — the highly talented people whose interpersonal style rubs people the wrong way and creates distress in the work environment.

Key Points

The three contexts that pose a risk:

1. Routine (To mitigate risks, Cultivate)
2. Sensitive (To mitigate risks, Calculate)
3. Problem (To minimize damage, Compensate)

Bonus Audio

• How to not cross the line

Resources Mentioned

• Trust Your Canary: Every Leader’s Guide to Taming Workplace Incivility*
• Hey (We’re Not All) Guys! Why I Don’t Use “You Guys”

Related Episodes

• How to Tame Workplace Incivility, with Sharone Bar-David (episode 210)
• Use Power for Good and Not Evil, with Dacher Keltner (episode 254)
• How to Manage Abrasive Leaders, with Sharone Bar-David (episode 290)
• How to Make Inclusion Happen, with Deepa Purushothaman (episode 307)

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