Overcoming Manipulation at Work E-Book

50MINUTES

• Herausgeber: 50Minutes.com
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Serie: Coaching
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 30

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about avoiding manipulation at work with this practical guide.

All of us have either been manipulated or manipulated others at some point, and manipulation is a frequent component of interpersonal relationships. However, when taken to extremes in a professional context, its consequences can be serious: reduced professional effectiveness, damaged working relationships and even mental health problems. Fortunately, the situation is far from hopeless, and the tips in this guide will enable you to become more assertive and stop simply agreeing to whatever is asked of you.

In 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Work out whether you are being manipulated by a colleague, manager or subordinate
• Start standing up for yourself and saying no to unwanted requests
• Take control of your relationships with manipulative individuals and escape their hold over you

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Overcoming manipulation at work

Problem: how can you defuse situations involving manipulation in the workplace in order to establish a healthier atmosphere without power games between colleagues?Uses: defending yourself against manipulation at work is a way of working on your assertiveness and improving your relationships with your colleagues and managers.Professional context: professional relationships with employers, colleagues and subordinates, as manipulation can occur in any sector regardless of the relationship between those involved.FAQs:Who are manipulators?How can I identify a pathological manipulator at work?Am I being manipulated at work?Am I subconsciously contributing to the situation?When do I need to take action against manipulation?How can I get out of a manipulative situation?What laws are there to protect against this kind of abuse?How can I talk about the situation to the people around me?How can I help others to overcome manipulation?

Any one of us could end up involved in manipulation in the workplace, whether as a witness, the person being manipulated or even the manipulator. Indeed, given how frequent this phenomenon is in interpersonal relationships, you have almost certainly already experienced this kind of situation. For example, you may have felt forced to agree to someone else’s request out of fear of disappointing or upsetting them, or you may have used emotional blackmail to get something out of a loved one. Whether consciously or not, we can all end up playing the role of the manipulator or the victim – sometimes during the course of a single conversation.

Power games are an everyday occurrence in our interactions with other people, and especially at work, where people’s different positions in the hierarchy add an extra layer of complexity to interpersonal relationships. Although these situations are certainly irritating, as long as they remain reasonably infrequent and minor in nature, they are not necessarily harmful. Real problems only emerge when these attempts to undermine someone else occur repeatedly over an extended period of time.

In this guide, we will provide a more precise definition of manipulation in the workplace, explain the mechanisms behind it, show you how to identify manipulative manoeuvres and offer solutions to thwart any attempts to manipulate you, or to get out of the situation if you are already being manipulated.

Manipulation at work: the basics

What is manipulation?

Manipulation is a behavioural dynamic between two people or groups of people in which one or both sides make a conscious effort to gain the upper hand over the other in order to get their way, generally without the victim realising. The manipulator’s conscious aim is therefore to psychologically dominate the other person, and they take great care to ensure that their manoeuvring is not discovered by their potential victims or by a third party. Manipulation is an insidious process of social influence, and is often difficult to detect.