Recorded Webinar: My Boss Hates Me - Now What Do I Do?

Recorded Webinar

My Boss Hates Me - Now What Do I Do?

By Dr. Tom Ayala

Recorded November 20, 2020 | Recorded Sessions are not eligible for NBCC Contact Hours

Career management is a lifelong process. As employees progress through their career journey things don’t always work out to their benefit. There is an important, and not very often discussed result of employees finding themselves in an outgroup situation. This webinar will address known characteristics of how this relational dynamic impacts the safety, citizenship, engagement, and psychological wellbeing of impacted employees.

Attendees will learn:

1. The Leader-Member Exchange theory and how it exists for every career counseling client
2. The Leadership Making Model and how it defines the quality of the relationship between employees and their immediate supervisor.
3. Recent organizational research on how organizational outgroups are impacted by their status
4. How the following psychological constructs integrate into the conversation and how they directly apply to a career development. They include:
   1. Alfred Adler’s “ideal self”
   2. involuntary defeat strategy
   3. learned helplessness
   4. locus of control
   5. maladaptive embedded childhood schema
   6. social learning

Scholarly references will be provided.

Tom Ayala, PhD has been in private practice for over 15 years. He is a rural outpatient mental health clinician and works in diverse areas that are designated as American Counseling Association divisions. Many parts of rural Oregon are socioeconomically depressed former lumber economies and have experienced high percentages of unemployment. Many people also change jobs, transition careers, experience personal circumstances, or focus on a variety of ways to develop their career. Tom received a Masters degree in counseling from George Fox University. Known locally by organizations for helping with leadership and employee issues, he pursued a PhD in Organizational Leadership from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

Tom received a Commander's Certificate of Appreciation from the United States Army Garrison Wiesbaden, Outstanding Service Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and a Commanders Certificate of Appreciation from the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 27. Tom is a trauma-informed therapist and has provided guidance and educational opportunities for the military and government. As the President of the National Employment Counseling Association (2012-2014), advocacy for veteran civilian employment after service was a top priority. Tom is a compassionate individual who believes in basic human rights and pursuit of quality of life for everyone.