Sharone Bar-David: Trust Your Canary

Sharone Bar-David is a leading Canadian expert on workplace incivility and author of Trust Your Canary: Every Leader’s Guide to Taming Workplace Incivility*. She is particularly passionate about her work with abrasive leaders — the highly talented people whose interpersonal style rubs people the wrong way and creates distress in the work environment.

Key Points

The three contexts that pose a risk:

Routine (To mitigate risks, Cultivate)

Sensitive (To mitigate risks, Calculate)

Problem (To minimize damage, Compensate)

Bonus Audio

How to not cross the line

Resources Mentioned

Trust Your Canary: Every Leader’s Guide to Taming Workplace Incivility*

Hey (We’re Not All) Guys! Why I Don’t Use “You Guys”

Related Episodes

How to Tame Workplace Incivility, with Sharone Bar-David (episode 210)

Use Power for Good and Not Evil, with Dacher Keltner (episode 254)

How to Manage Abrasive Leaders, with Sharone Bar-David (episode 290)

How to Make Inclusion Happen, with Deepa Purushothaman (episode 307)

Discover More

Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.