Coaching practices for How to Handle Workplace Sexual Harassment
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- Someone got mocked or shut down in our last meeting and I let it slide to avoid the awkwardness
- I’ve told my people a hundred times they can disagree with me, but they still don’t
- Someone on my team is clearly going through something heavy and I’ve just been carrying on talking deliverables like nothing’s wrong
- Once a fight gets going I can feel I’ve passed the point where anything good comes out of my mouth, but I don’t know how to step away without it looking like I’m storming off or quitting on the person.
- Something just blew up and I can feel the whole team watching how I take it
Practices that may help
- Respond immediately and visibly to safety violations
When safety is violated — a person is mocked, shut down, or punished for dissent — address it in the moment.
The Four Stages of Psychological Safety - Teach speak-up skills, not just encourage speaking up
Give team members specific language for raising concerns, not just permission to raise them.
Psychological Safety in Teams - Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
Managing up means proactively understanding your manager’s priorities, communication style, and constraints — then adapting how you work and communicate to make the partnership effective. Done well it is collaborative rather than manipulative: it reduces friction, builds trust, and creates space for greater autonomy. The evidence base is primarily organizational behavior research on leader-member exchange and practitioner consensus. - Show up for the person, not just the deliverable
Acknowledge what is happening in someone’s life when it is clearly affecting them — before addressing the work.
Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor - Take a structured time-out
Exit the provocation situation temporarily with a plan to re-engage — not as avoidance, but as arousal regulation.
Novaco Anger Management, Made Practical - Respond productively to failure and bad news
How you react in the first thirty seconds after a mistake either banks or burns safety.
Psychological Safety, Made Practical - Respond non-punitively to mistakes
When someone brings you a problem or mistake, make your first move curiosity, not blame.
Psychological Safety in Teams - Bring a proposed solution when you bring a problem
Describe the problem and your recommended path before asking for a decision.
Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss - Difficult Conversations, Made Practical
The Harvard "Difficult Conversations" framework says every hard talk is really three at once — what happened, the feelings involved, and what it means for each person’s identity. The shift that changes everything is moving from blame to contribution and from arguing your story to learning theirs. It is a practitioner framework grounded in negotiation theory rather than controlled trials. - Send proactive, brief status updates
Update your manager on important work before they ask — in the format and frequency they actually want.
Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
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Use the arrow technique to identify the core belief driving your worst-case interpretation of what someone did.
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Update your manager on important work before they ask — in the format and frequency they actually want.
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