Coping in a Toxic Environment: Decency Journey, #3

By Anna Eliatamby

Do you dread the thought of going to work and count down the hours until you finish? Do you return home feeling exhausted, stressed and burnt out?

So many people work in a toxic environment, which can have a devastating impact on both their mental and physical health. The need to earn an income means most people endure damaging work cultures and try their best to cope but this can have an enormous and lasting psychological cost.

With so much of our time spent in the workplace, finding an effective way to overcome challenges and achieve a positive balance is crucial for our wellbeing, happiness and self-esteem.

Coping in a toxic environment is a short, user-friendly guide to negotiating tricky working conditions and learning to thrive rather than simply survive in the workplace. A must-have book for anyone who is struggling in their current employment, it will help you to explore what is toxic for you and review how you are coping in the environment you are in.

Part of a series of handy pocketbooks on healthy working practices and career success, Coping in a toxic environment will give you clarity on your current situation and provide you with helpful suggestions and effective coping strategies.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anna Eliatamby
• Release date: Nov 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9781804430101

Anna Eliatamby

I worked in the public, humanitarian and private sector in leadership, well-being and psychology. For over 30 years. I have learned that each organisation strives for decency but there are always toxic elements. These drain people’s energy, motivation and decency. The best way to ensure decency in leadership and organisations is to work collaboratively in the workplace. We then free ourselves to be our best, looking after our self care and well-being. And we must tackle and address the negativity and toxicity. We need to pause and reflect on the greater purpose of working to leave a good enough legacy for the next generation. Isn’t that our obligation? I have learned, over the years, that I am fallible and will make mistakes and errors. That sometimes, I err on the negative side. So I am a work in progress, as we all are. I hope you enjoy the books. Many have praised them, for which I am grateful. “Brilliant” Five stars. Anthony Manning “These books are great. They’re packed full of interesting and pertinent ideas - and exercises to help us explore how the topic in question plays out in our own thinking and behaviour. “Decency” might at first sound like an old-fashioned concept - but it is all the more vital in our complex, fast-paced and ever-changing world of work. It’s the least we can expect of ourselves and each other, if the vital relationships upon which organisations’ endeavours succeed, or fail, are to thrive. It’s also what we should expect from our leaders (in all fields), who should aspire to be role models of truly people-centred behaviour, rather than primarily focused on goals and targets.” David Love. Thank you

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Coping in a Toxic Environment

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ISBN: 978-1-80443-011-8

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This pocketbook also contains some concepts from Healthy Leadership and Organisations: Beyond the Shadow Side. Anna Eliatamby (Editor).2022.

PREFACE

This pocketbook is part of a series on healthy leadership and organisations for decency. The aim is to encourage you to look at what is golden and shadow in your work as leaders and as organisations, so people can detox and heal. When we focus on the golden, and address the shadow, then we are more likely to be decent in all we say and do.

Decency is ‘honest, polite behaviour that follows accepted moral standards and shows respect for others’ (Oxford Learners Dictionary).

We all contribute to what is golden (positive) and shadow (negative) in work and life. Mostly we operate from the golden side, but sometimes we function from the shadow side, and this holds us back as individuals and as organisations. We are all human and