Recovering from a Toxic Workplace Environment | JobSearchTV.com
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
If you are someone who quit a job because the environment was toxic, here are a number of things you can do to help your recovery.
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If you’re someone who’s been working in a toxic environment, an environment so poisonous, that it’s important for you to quit, you felt like that’s the right choice for you, I have no arguments whatsoever. You know what you need. You know what you don’t want to tolerate. Good for you. But how do you recover from that experience that was so bad, it drove you out the door? That’s the subject of this conversation today.
There are a couple of things that you can do. The first one is to take a little bit of time for yourself. Now, this assumes that you have the ability to take off from work for a little while. If you don’t, maybe you need to power through the job search and circled back to this later on. But the idea becomes start off by recognizing what your strengths are, what are you good at.
Don’t worry about whether or not it’s professional. Just write down what you’re good at. And if you can’t do it, because it just feels like too much effort, ask people who you know about some of the positive things about you. You can ask a good friend. You can ask a former colleague, but write down a list of the things that you’re good at, and what your strengths are.
Then number two is, don’t really stay in contact for a period of time with former colleagues from that firm. You can unfollow your boss on LinkedIn. You can ignore some of the posts that you see from others from your firm. You don’t want to burn bridges, but you don’t want to be in relationship with them right now because all that’s going to happen is they’re going to ask why, you know, we miss you, and you’re going to talk about it. And it’s going to instill a venom within you for a while longer.
If you can afford a therapist, go to a therapist. If you need a coach to talk to, hire a coach. Whichever it is, find a way to talk to someone who’s a professional about what it was like in that environment. Take a little bit of time to reset yourself. Thus, before you start a new job, you might find some time each day to meditate, or do a long break in the course of the day. You may need to completely hide out from everyone for a while and binge watch TV. But take a little time for yourself and do things that you’re good at.
So this goes back to that first list. Have a little of fun. Work out. Don’t worry about being professional. Just have a little bit of fun for a while. And hopefully this is going to lead you to the most important step, which is to figure out that the lies that you’ve taken on, the stories that you started to believe that your previous employer aren’t true. It’s time to set those aside. This takes a little bit of time. But it’s important to do that.
The lies we tell ourselves that we take on from others, are exactly that– lies. Thus, it’s important to take a little bit of time to recover from a toxic environment, from a poisonous environment so that you can move on well to the next place.
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