How To Create A Drama Free Workplace

Key Take Away:
The primary goal of this webinar is to equip attendees to recognize drama, even in its subtle forms, understand the impact, and give them tips, tools, and techniques to remove themselves from the person, professional and organizational consequences unchecked drama can have. To move from Despair to Empowerment.

Overview:
There’s a workplace condition that has a substantive negative impact, including, hampered productivity – curtailed creativity – hobbled team cohesion – strained relationships, and staff turnover.

It’s ubiquitous – you can find it everywhere you look – and It can be found all across the spectrum from painfully obvious to almost imperceptible. And it exists in all organizations, every sector and every level of the organization.
The condition is workplace drama.

Once drama gets started, it’s virulent and insidious, its tentacles reach into every area of organizational life. It can be found in team, staff, and exec. meetings, in the lunchroom, at one-on-one meetings, intra-departmentally, with customers and vendors – literally everywhere.

There is a remedy – create a drama-free organizational culture.

Step one is recognizing where drama lives and all the forms it takes. Drama can only thrive where there is agreement from 2 or more people for the drama to continue. When people know how to decline invitations to participate, the drama dies. Understanding the roles people play in the drama is important as well. There are three very distinct roles and actions that go along with each of those roles.

When people learn to recognize when someone is playing a role, and inviting others into the drama, they can decline those invitations and the drama doesn’t get the oxygen it needs to continue to burn.

Why Should You Attend:
Dealing with constant, or even occasional drama is overwhelming, annoying, and sometimes when it burns hot, scary.

Having to attend meetings where you know drama erupts frequently is anxiety-provoking – you try to find reasons to not go, come late, or leave early.

You feel out-of-control – you can’t always predict when it going to happen, and nothing you do seems to put a damper on the situation.

The drama has a huge negative impact on the organization and the people who work there.

When you learn most drama-filled situations follow an identified and predictable pattern you’ve taken the first step to be able to have a positive impact on the health and functionality of your environment.

Learning the distinct roles people play in every drama situation, will give you the understanding and tools to, not only not get drawn into it, but to also suffocate the drama. It needs participants to survive.

Once you learn the techniques and tools to suffocate drama – you’ll feel more confident, less stressed, and you’ll be more creative and productive.

Areas Covered in the Session:
•  How to identify the behaviors, words and speech patterns of each of the 3 key roles people play in dramatic situations
•  To identify when one or more people are playing any of the 3 key roles
•  To recognize the subtle and almost imperceptible early signs of drama – the spark to ignites the fire
•  How to extricate oneself from drama-filled situations
•  The 6 strategies to elegantly decline invitations to participate in the drama, without creating more drama
•  A 5 step process to eliminate drama from your life
•  How to stop wasting time and energy trying to control what you can’t control – and how to focus on the 3 areas you can control
•  How to stay centered and present in the face of drama
•  How to get work done, have effective communications and not let them control your life