The Drama-Free Workplace: How You Can Prevent Unconscious Bias, Sexual Harassment, Ethics Lapses, and Inspire a Healthy Culture - Hardcover

by Patti Perez (Author)

Eliminate sexual harassment, unconscious bias, ethical lapses and other HR nightmares!

Companies spend millions on legal compliance training and initiatives to eliminate workplace drama and the resulting low morale and lawsuits, but don't always get the results they want. Most organizations understand that simply checking legal compliance boxes around sexual harassment, bias, etc. isn't enough, but are at a loss on how to implement solutions, especially in today's post-#MeToo world.

Patti Perez is an attorney, HR expert, trainer, and former state regulator, who has conducted over 1,200 workplace investigations. In this unique book, she explains the secret to avoiding all forms of drama, legal exposure, and low morale: A healthy workplace culture. Patti combines the lessons learned from 25 years of professional experience with robust data from behavioral science research to debunk common myths, including the belief that a focus on legal compliance leads to a healthy workplace culture. (In fact, it increases the likelihood of getting sued).

The Drama-Free Workplace includes a section with easy-to-understand causes, effects and solutions to problems related to:

• Sexual harassment
• Bias and diversity
• Ethics lapses

The book also includes helpful information on:

• Becoming an organization that values and practices fearlessness, fairness and freedom
• Anticipating situations that give rise to drama, with detailed advice on how to prevent it from happening
• Using emotional intelligence to communicate more precisely and persuasively about sensitive, controversial topics in the workplace

Finally, the book's DIY section guides companies on how to:

• draft and enforce helpful policies (that employees will actually read and *want* to follow)
• design and deliver powerful and effective training programs
• investigate and resolve claims of sexual harassment and other types of misconduct.

Together, these practical tools will help all your employees feel valued and motivated, and keep drama, disengagement, and lawsuits, away.

Front Jacket

Savvy organizations know that maintaining a healthy workplace culture attracts top talent, drives productivity, and increases the bottom line. However, few companies know how to improve their culture and keep it thriving. The Drama-Free Workplace is a hands-on guide filled with proven strategies and guidance for creating and sustaining a cohesive, collaborative workplace culture that enables widespread innovation, increased productivity, and greater revenue.

Written for leaders and anyone responsible for dealing with difficult situations in the office, The Drama-Free Workplace explores the underlying causes of those fraught encounters--including sexual harassment, bias, cultural clashes, lapses in ethics, and more--offering realistic solutions for mitigation. Veteran workplace-culture and certified Human Resources expert Patti Perez describes essential and easy-to-implement formulas to make every workplace healthier, including practical solutions for becoming "drama free," tactics to provide effective training, and how to investigate and resolve workplace drama.

The Drama-Free Workplace is the one-of-a-kind, informative resource that explains what it takes to become an organization that values and practices fearlessness, fairness, and freedom. It shows how to use the tools of emotional intelligence to communicate more precisely, persuasively, and explores how to anticipate the situations that give rise to drama with detailed advice on how to prevent problematic situations from occurring.

Drawing on more than 25 years working in the field, Perez blends the lessons learned from her professional experience with compelling data and a broad range of behavioral science research findings that underpin her innovative theories. The Drama-Free Workplace debunks commonly held myths, including the belief that a focus on legal compliance leads to a healthy workplace culture. Perez explains that a hyper-focus on compliance, paradoxically, increases the likelihood of getting sued.

The Drama-Free Workplace is the one book that has it all--ideas for identifying drama in the workplace, strategies for preventing workplace drama, suggestions for improving workplace culture, and formulas for keeping a healthy culture alive and thriving. This is the guidebook for creating a drama-free workplace!

Back Jacket

Savvy organizations know that maintaining a healthy workplace culture attracts top talent, drives productivity, and increases the bottom line. However, few companies know how to improve their culture and keep it thriving. The Drama-Free Workplace is a hands-on guide filled with proven strategies and guidance for creating and sustaining a cohesive, collaborative workplace culture that enables widespread innovation, increased productivity, and greater revenue.

Written for leaders and anyone responsible for dealing with difficult situations in the office, The Drama-Free Workplace explores the underlying causes of those fraught encounters--including sexual harassment, bias, cultural clashes, lapses in ethics, and more--offering realistic solutions for mitigation. Veteran workplace-culture and certified Human Resources expert Patti Perez describes essential and easy-to-implement formulas to make every workplace healthier, including practical solutions for becoming "drama free," tactics to provide effective training, and how to investigate and resolve workplace drama.

The Drama-Free Workplace is the one-of-a-kind, informative resource that explains what it takes to become an organization that values and practices fearlessness, fairness, and freedom. It shows how to use the tools of emotional intelligence to communicate more precisely, persuasively, and explores how to anticipate the situations that give rise to drama with detailed advice on how to prevent problematic situations from occurring.

Drawing on more than 25 years working in the field, Perez blends the lessons learned from her professional experience with compelling data and a broad range of behavioral science research findings that underpin her innovative theories. The Drama-Free Workplace debunks commonly held myths, including the belief that a focus on legal compliance leads to a healthy workplace culture. Perez explains that a hyper-focus on compliance, paradoxically, increases the likelihood of getting sued.

The Drama-Free Workplace is the one book that has it all--ideas for identifying drama in the workplace, strategies for preventing workplace drama, suggestions for improving workplace culture, and formulas for keeping a healthy culture alive and thriving. This is the guidebook for creating a drama-free workplace!

Author Biography

PATTI PEREZ is Vice President of Workplace Strategy for Emtrain, a technology-driven HR culture/compliance company and a frequent speaker around the United States and Latin America on sexual harassment prevention and other workplace issues. She is a licensed California attorney, a professionally-certified HR executive, and a specialist in the prevention and resolution of workplace drama.