Coaching practices for How to Report Unfair Treatment at Work
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- The person across from me is clearly churning with some big feeling
- I bend over backwards to be fair to everyone else and then quietly leave myself out of the equation entirely
- I’ve told my people a hundred times they can disagree with me, but they still don’t
- Someone just came to me with a mistake and I felt my face tighten before I said a word
- 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
Practices that may help
- Label the emotion
Name the feeling you’re sensing — "It sounds like this feels unfair" — to take its heat down.
Tactical Empathy - 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 - 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 - Respond non-punitively to mistakes
When someone brings you a problem or mistake, make your first move curiosity, not blame.
Psychological Safety in Teams - 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 - Use the time to remove blockers
Ask what’s in their way and then actually clear it — this is your highest-leverage move.
Effective One-on-Ones, Made Practical - Make feedback specific and behavioral, not evaluative
Describe what you observed, not what it says about the person.
The Feedback Sandwich: Why It Doesn’t Work and What to Do Instead - 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) - 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 - Share tasks equitably — and feel equitable about it
Divide practical responsibilities in a way both partners experience as fair.
Relationship Maintenance Behaviors
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Apply the same standards of fairness to yourself that you would to someone you respect.
Be Fair: include yourself in the fairness you extend to others
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Name the feeling you’re sensing — "It sounds like this feels unfair" — to take its heat down.
Label the emotion
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Apply the same standards of fairness to yourself that you would to someone you respect.
- How To Handle Unfair Treatment At Work
Apply the same standards of fairness to yourself that you would to someone you respect.
- How To Prove Unfair Treatment At Work
Apply the same standards of fairness to yourself that you would to someone you respect.
- Coworker Touched Me Inappropriately How Can I Get Her Fired For This
Use the arrow technique to identify the core belief driving your worst-case interpretation of what someone did.
Downward arrow for interpreting others’ behavior
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