Coaching practices for How to Prove Unfair Treatment at Work

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  • I bend over backwards to be fair to everyone else and then quietly leave myself out of the equation entirely
  • There’s a low hum of resentment building in me about who does what around the house
  • I’ve already landed on the harsh thing I believe about myself
  • I have to make an ask that I know is going to land as self-serving or unfair, and I’m dreading the moment they think it
  • They keep treating what they did as a rule they broke, an abstraction — and they have no real idea what it actually did to me day to day.

Practices that may help

  1. Be Fair: include yourself in the fairness you extend to others
    Apply the same standards of fairness to yourself that you would to someone you respect.
    FAST: DBT’s Skill for Maintaining Self-Respect in Relationships
  2. Share tasks equitably — and feel equitable about it
    Divide practical responsibilities in a way both partners experience as fair.
    Relationship Maintenance Behaviors
  3. Testing a core belief with historical evidence
    Once you have a core belief, survey all your history for evidence that contradicts it.
    The Downward Arrow: Uncovering the Core Beliefs Behind Distress
  4. Run an accusation audit before difficult asks
    Name the worst things the other person might think about you or your request — before they do.
    Labeling Emotions in Negotiation, Made Practical
  5. Make the harm visible through an impact statement
    The person who caused harm must hear — in detail — what the harm actually did to the person harmed.
    Restorative Justice (Howard Zehr)
  6. Build an achievement file
    Keep a permanent, specific record of accomplishments so evidence is available when the impostor voice is loudest.
    Impostor Phenomenon, Made Practical
  7. Label the emotion
    Name the feeling you’re sensing — "It sounds like this feels unfair" — to take its heat down.
    Tactical Empathy
  8. Apply three good things to work contexts specifically
    Use the exercise to rewire what you notice about your work day — contribution, competence, and collaboration.
    Three Good Things: The Evidence-Based Gratitude Practice
  9. Examine the evidence for and against
    Systematically list what supports your interpretation and what doesn’t — like a fair-minded lawyer, not a prosecutor.
    Check the Facts, Made Practical
  10. Downward arrow for interpreting others’ behavior
    Use the arrow technique to identify the core belief driving your worst-case interpretation of what someone did.
    The Downward Arrow: Uncovering the Core Beliefs Behind Distress

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