Gail Elliott

"The Dignity and Respect Lady"

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Gail Elliott

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Dignity and Respect Communication, Motivation, Trust, Mobbing/Bullying
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Mobbing: Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace, School Mobbing and Emotional Abuse: See It - Stop It - Prevent It with Dignity and Respect
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Speaker, Author, Trainer, and Consultant, Gail is founder of Innovations "Training With a Can-Do Attitude" ®, located in central Iowa, USA. She presents refreshing and positive management and human relations seminars based on people treating each other with Dignity and Respect, No Exceptions. Gail is a nationally recognized expert on mobbing and bullying in schools and workplaces and is author of the book School Mobbing and Emotional Abuse: See It – Stop It – Prevent It with Dignity and Respect; the weekly e-newsletter Food for Thought, and is coauthor of the book Mobbing: Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace.

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Regardless of the progress made through legislation over the years, discrimination and bigotry still exist and utilize more subtle tactics to exclude perceived undesirables from groups and organizations of all kinds. Although mobbing is usually described as a status-blind form of harassment it also can be used by some to mask discrimination directed at individuals associated with those groups protected by law. The 1993 award winning film, Philadelphia, is a good example of how this can happen.

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Last week there was another terrorist-type school shooting. In the aftermath, it didn't take long to figure out that someone who fell between the cracks perpetrated this tragedy. This happens to be a recurring theme regardless of the venue of such an incident. Years ago I taught an at-risk ...

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Trust is like a fine crystal goblet. Once we have this goblet in our possession we are responsible for its care, regardless of how we received it, regardless of whether we thought we wanted it. Sometimes someone hands us this goblet as a gift. Trust bestowed in this manner is an act of faith, ...

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Just as mobbing that has not been intercepted can spill into the community and follow an individual via rumors, it can travel even faster via cyberspace. In 2000, when I presented mobbing programs for a county here in Iowa, one of the county supervisors shared that this was happening at school ...

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I wish I knew what the teacher was thinking when she decided to have one of her students stand in front of the room and then asked each of his classmates to tell him what they did not like about him. I wonder what her intent was when she then had each student vote as to whether he should be in ...

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The suspect had no history of violence, officials said. "He was a timid boy, who was having difficulty integrating, but he never displayed any violent attitudes," a local education official said. The “suspect” was a fifteen year old boy who shot up a classroom at his school, killing three ...

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When people are caught up in their own little worlds they not only miss a great deal they also inadvertently can do damage. What is wrong with our children these days? As Shakespeare wrote, “The fault is not in our stars but in ourselves.” Watch what the adults do and say and you will see ...

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"Sing to me of the wonde in small achievementsnwhen happiness is a torn kitendangling in the branches of life." From the poem "Sing To Me" 1997 Gail Pursell Elliottnn One of my dearest friends uses the term 'wonderful' to describe everything from food to actions to people and always with ...

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Mobbing is group bullying. It is ganging up on someone using the tactics of rumor, innuendo, discrediting, isolating, intimidating, and above all, making it look as if the targeted person is responsible. As is typical of many abusive situations, the perpetrators maintain that the victim ...

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People targeted by a mobbing process have been thrown from what they believed was an orderly world into a state of chaos in which many former points of reference are no longer valid. This confusion may prompt them to question all points of reference, including the ones deep inside of them. A person's sense of personal dignity can be compromised unless steps are taken to protect and preserve that which the individual values most.

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Unemployment and job security have created some disturbing behaviors in today’s workplaces. Supervisors Intimidating employees and verbally bullying them has become more prevalent as well as coworkers behaving subversively to protect their jobs from others viewed as a threat to their continued employment. Behavioral risk management is the realm in which we address workplace violence. Not addressing incivility and disrespectful behavior in the workplace especially in times such as these is risky business.

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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Gail Elliott

"All people want and have the right to be treated with Dignity and Respect, No Exceptions"

"Think you can't change the world? Too late, you already have!"

"You will never know how many lives were forever changed because they came into contact with you, if only for a fleeting moment."

"Trust is like a fine crystal goblet."

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