Savvy organizations know that maintaining a healthy workplace culture attracts top talent, drives productivity, and increases the bottom line. However, few companies know how to improve their culture and keep it thriving. The Drama-Free Workplace is a hands-on guide filled with proven strategies and guidance for creating and sustaining a cohesive, collaborative workplace culture that enables widespread innovation, increased productivity, and greater revenue. Written for leaders and anyone responsible for dealing with difficult situations in the office, The Drama-Free Workplace explores the underlying causes of those fraught encounters--including sexual harassment, bias, cultural clashes, lapses in ethics, and more--offering realistic solutions for mitigation. Veteran workplace-culture and certified Human Resources expert Patti Perez describes essential and easy-to-implement formulas to make every workplace healthier, including practical solutions for becoming "drama free," tactics to provide effective training, and how to investigate and resolve workplace drama. The Drama-Free Workplace is the one-of-a-kind, informative resource that explains what it takes to become an organization that values and practices fearlessness, fairness, and freedom. It shows how to use the tools of emotional intelligence to communicate more precisely, persuasively, and explores how to anticipate the situations that give rise to drama with detailed advice on how to prevent problematic situations from occurring. Drawing on more than 25 years working in the field, Perez blends the lessons learned from her professional experience with compelling data and a broad range of behavioral science research findings that underpin her innovative theories. The Drama-Free Workplace debunks commonly held myths, including the belief that a focus on legal compliance leads to a healthy workplace culture. Perez explains that a hyper-focus on compliance, paradoxically, increases the likelihood of getting sued. The Drama-Free Workplace is the one book that has it all--ideas for identifying drama in the workplace, strategies for preventing workplace drama, suggestions for improving workplace culture, and formulas for keeping a healthy culture alive and thriving. This is the guidebook for creating a drama-free workplace!