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Bad Work Stories Made Good

Author: Emma Matthews and Corina Roobeck

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We hear too many stories of suffering at work and want to help you get some ideas and relief to make your life healthier and happier. In each episode, we will take a bad work story from our client work, the media, or even your own bad work story and make it good. 

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Emma and Corina are on a Mission to stop bad work stories. We serve leaders and help you shift from the stress and waste of drama and suffering at work to joy, honesty and collaboration. We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. Add them to your leadership and facilitation toolkit. This week, we tackle the big question a lot of people are thinking at this time of year - Is this job worth it ? I am exhausted and over it. Should I s...
Emma and Corina are on a Mission to stop bad work stories. We serve leaders and help you shift from the stress and waste of drama and suffering at work to joy, honesty and collaboration. We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. Add them to your leadership and facilitation toolkit. This week, we explore the often dreaded End of Year Performance Review. Whether you are on the receiving end or a leader balancing the needs of t...
Emma and Corina are on a Mission to stop bad work stories. We serve leaders and help you shift from the stress and waste of drama and suffering at work to joy, honesty and collaboration. We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. Add them to your leadership and facilitation toolkit. This week, we explore a day that Emma is quite happy to forget or rather to learn from ! feeling stuck, tired, under pressure with deadlines and ...
Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Drama and suffering are the enemies of creativity, collaboration and the trust needed to do our best work for our people and clients. We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. Add them to your leadership and facilitation toolkit. In this episode, we explore the question, Why don’t we take more control of our well-being at work? What is the resistance to take breaks and do ...
Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. Add them to your leadership and facilitation toolkit. This episode explores the impacts of a senior leader's romantic relationship with a co-worker and the impact on the organisation. What do we need to be aware of as leaders confronted with this reality, and how do we address it? Po...
Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. Add them to your leadership and facilitation toolkit. This episode examines the life threatening consequences of micro management. Where burnout from the relentless pressure of a leader towards a high performer put her in hospital. What can we do about this before it gets to this critical...
Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. Add them to your leadership and facilitation toolkit. 2 weeks ago we did an episode that looked behind the scenes of the Womens Football World Cup and how the women involved need to double down on their resilience for games played off the field. When the Spanish team took to the winners p...
Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. Add them to your leadership and facilitation toolkit. In this episode, we explore a situation where a leader with positional power asks to be updated in a meeting because they are too busy to come prepared. The team member leading the meeting did what they were asked to do, felt terrible ...
Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. Add them to your leadership and facilitation toolkit. Behind the many good ( and inspirational) work stories of this Women's Football World Cup lie several bad work stories that show us how resilient the players must be to perform at their best despite all the noise - past, present and fu...
Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all. We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. You take what resonates with you for your leadership and facilitation toolkit. In this episode, we flip to a Good Work Story and celebrate what's working. This time we look at a team going from good to great and how they review...
Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all. We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. You take what resonates with you for your leadership and facilitation toolkit. In this episode, we explore the use of ‘authentic self” as a justification for bad behaviour in teams - dominating discussions, speaking on behalf o...
Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all. We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. You take what resonates with you for your leadership and facilitation toolkit. In this episode, we review the pain of cross-functional collaboration and how to get out of the tension and into shared brilliance and enjoyment. Ye...
Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all. We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. You take what resonates with you for your leadership and facilitation toolkit. In this episode, we look at a family business situation for Emma. Points covered: Expectations can be huge, so get clear on all sidesWork ...
Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all. We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. You take what resonates with you for your leadership and facilitation toolkit. In this episode, we look at how resilience can be an abused term at work and how to turn it around for good. Points covered: How is resili...
Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all. We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. You take what resonates with you for your leadership and facilitation toolkit. In this episode, we look at how to navigate a business social event. How to make the most of the opportunity of spending time in a different environ...
Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all. We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. You take what resonates with you for your leadership and facilitation toolkit. In this episode, we look at how we are dealing with our frontline customer service. We need to support staff as the world is under resourced. What c...
Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all. We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. You take what resonates with you for your leadership and facilitation toolkit. In this episode, we look at how an internal candidate found the recruitment process as he went for a new role.. What can we learn from this? Po...
A Touchy Subject

A Touchy Subject

2023-06-2613:00

Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all. We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. You take what resonates with you for your leadership and facilitation toolkit. In this episode, we look at how touch at work is such a touchy subject.. What can we learn from this? Points covered: Are we losing our hu...
Emma and Corina are on a mission to stop bad work stories. Work need not be a place of drama and suffering. It can be a place of joyful collaboration and growth for all. We take everyday situations and apply practical and kind strategies to improve them. You take what resonates with you for your leadership and facilitation toolkit. In this episode, we look at the recent controversy at the giant media company in the Uk and unpick the elements that made it toxic. What can we lear...
Intro to Season 3

Intro to Season 3

2023-06-1302:30

Welcome back for Season 3 where Emma and Corina continue their mission to help you stop the bad stuff that's happening at work. And this season we are launching on You Tube.
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