The Gossip-Free Workplace
What are your workplace conversations like? Do they contribute to collaboration and respect or to rumors and cliques? This workshop identifies the causes and consequences of rumours and gossip and explores the steps that managers, supervisors and employees can take to create a rumour and gossip-free workplace. Participants learn to apply the GUT test (Good, Useful and Truthful). What is your gut telling you?
Learning objectives
At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Describe the difference between rumours and gossip
Describe the difference between idle chitchat and damaging office gossip
Describe the impact of rumours and gossip on individuals, teams and the working environment
Discuss the underlying reasons why office gossip exists in their environment
Identify the steps that managers, supervisors and employees can take to create a rumour and gossip-free workplace
Practice behaviours to break the gossip cycle
Delivery
This workshop can be delivered in 60 minutes, 90 minutes or 1/2 day.
“The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.”