Bottling Up Trouble

Tabbin Almond’s drinking career started early, and really took off when she worked in advertising. Her drinking made her miserable and affected every area of her life. Now, having overcome her own addiction, she works as a coach, blogger, podcaster and speaker to help others control alcohol and find freedom.

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Introduction
Part 1 – How alcohol is holding your business back

1 The financial costs to organizations of the absenteeism and presenteeism associated with alcohol
2 The human cost of alcohol
3 The reputational costs associated with alcohol
4 The societal factors that hold businesses back from changing their culture around alcohol
5 Why business leaders hold back from changing their organization’s alcohol culture… seen as the fight we don’t need to have


Part 2 – Understanding why people become dependent on alcohol

6 Why do some people develop AUD but not others?
7 Regardless of the differing beliefs about why dependence develops, the result is the same


Part 3 – What to do about it: assess, plan, implement, sustain

8 Looking in the mirror
9 The various ways your business may be Bottling Up Trouble: the bits that are in writing, i.e., policies and contracts of employment
10 The unwritten rules that mean you may be Bottling Up Trouble
11 Road map for changing your workplace culture around alcohol
12 Implementation of the No BUTs Road Map: short-term imperatives
13 Sustain the changes by truly embedding a new culture
14 In conclusion


Acknowledgements
Appendix
Index