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This article looks at encouraging better workplace cultures by encouraging people to be active bystanders. With a few simple facilitated sessions, many organisations have given their workforce the tools to provide interventions when toxic behaviours are displayed. What will I learn? Strategies for intervening: Interrupt the behaviour. Affirm and support the target. Use humour to call out behavior. De-escalate and calm the aggressor if other interventions fail. Let bystanders know there is a clear limit.