BOSTON, Mass. (PRWEB) September 15, 2011
October is Workplace Politics Awareness Month, a time when employers and employees everywhere can pause for an hour or so to look at what they can do to convert toxic workplace politics into a force for creativity.
Workplace politics can be creative or toxic. Anyone who works knows of tangles about office assignments, misallocation of resources, favoritism, and lots more. And we also know about collaborative efforts that result in better outcomes than anyone could have imagined.
Richard Brenner of Chaco Canyon Consulting, a management consultancy in Boston, Massachusetts, developed Workplace Politics Awareness Month to address the problem of toxic politics in the workplace.
"We need to change the way we view workplace politics," says Brenner. "Too many of us believe that politics is always bad. We push it out of sight, where it can turn toxic. Toxic politics is a vehicle for the unethical among us to distort decisions, which can harm careers, organizations and even the enterprise."
The message of Workplace Politics Awareness Month is that we can't eliminate politics, but we can eliminate toxic politics. And making this change has a huge return on investment. When we keep politics creative, organizational decisions are fairer and more in alignment with organizational objectives.
Mr. Brenner offers employers and employees Ten Insights for Managing Politics. Here are his top three:
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