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Work Issues
Your Financial and Work Stress
Money is always a hot issue in marriage. Economic challenges can compromise even the deepest of bonds. Hidden spending, a lack of compliance with a budget, secret bank accounts and unaccounted expenditures on credit cards and ATM withdrawals can threaten the foundation of your relationship.
Through our “Recovering from Financial Infidelity” Program, you will learn:
- Why lying about money is so common and why it is so harmful.
- Purchases people lie about most often.
- What to do when financial infidelity is out of control.
- Stop Lying Now! How to confess your financial sins.
- How to hear a confession about money with compassion.
- Why hidden financial accounts breach marital trust.
- How Separate Accounts Hide Many Sins (other than money).
- How to learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.
- Budget Building: A Lasting System of Responsibility and Transparency
- The Long Road Back: Accountability, Trust, and Sustainable Courage
Learned Helplessness and Money
Money problems can make you feel endlessly helpless as American culture equates success with money. Spending can be addictive while excessive thrift can be oppressive to others.
You will learn:
- Your Money Issues Did Not Happen Overnight: You will learn to challenge your negative thinking about money as you learn better self-management skills of your thoughts, emotions and reactions.
- Three easy steps to shutting off the money panic.
- Runaway Train: How to approach a budget with your partner without wrecking your relationship
- Overspending: What It Is, What It is Not and the Guaranteed Steps to Overcoming It.
- Achieving Success: Strategies for Emotional Calm and Continued Money Management as a Team
Bully Bosses, Co-Workers and Clients
The workplace bully has become more common than ever according to national business analyses and surveys. Up to 24% of companies report office bullying and over 30% of Americans say they have been verbally abused in the workplace. As business has become complex and competitive in these economic times, workplace bullying has increased.
The central characteristic of bullying is the attempt of one person to denigrate the character of another. Contemptuous statements from superiors and coworkers create overwhelming helplessness. Desensitization can occur if there is regular abuse. One study of 5000 people reported that many people do not even realize they are being bullied since they become desensitized to the regular disrespect and exclusion.
The Patterns of Bullying:
- Disrespect and Exclusion: Excluding people from meetings, withholding information, and gossiping can be as harmful as outright verbal attacks. Sabotaging a person’s credibility, respect and reputation are all forms of bullying.
- Verbal and Non-Verbal Abuse: Yelling, name calling, making threatening statements and nonverbal intimidations such as pounding of the fist, door slamming, walking away dismissively, and a failure to respond are all forms of bullying.
- Micromanaging: Most people do not consider an obsessive and an intrusive boss as bullying, but micromanaging can be a form of intimidation.
What We Teach:
Staying on the job with a bully boss may be necessary to ensure your financial welfare. At Gearing Up, we specialize in skills training to survive and even flourish in a difficult job with a bully boss. We work with our clients to create the following:
- Learning to Redefine Adversity and Seize Control
- Overcoming Helplessness with Accurate Thinking and Disputation Techniques
- Learning to View Adversity as Temporary, Containable and Manageable
- Creating a safety buffer of calm and self-confidence when dealing with difficult people and situations
- Creating and Executing an Effective Exit Plan
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