Webinar: Are You Ready for Violence in Your Workplace?
What are you doing now to be ready to help management deal with serious menacing workplace problems? These incidents have enormously high visibility and extremely long-term organizational impact. Are you ready to prevent, mitigate, and de-escalate the circumstances of such events? To properly and safely respond to the worst case scenarios when they happen? To deal with the negative, long-term impacts these incidents cause?
On Wednesday, June 24, 2009, step out of your comfort zone and join James E. Lukaszewski, ABC, APR, Fellow PRSA, and Richard Sem, CPP, CSC, President of Sem Security Management, to learn about workplace violence prevention, detection, de-escalation, and response approaches.
While most studies show that workplace homicides are on the gradual decline in the U.S. and Canada, growing economic uncertainty, along with its ripple effects, are causing what some experts have termed, “an unprecedented wave of workplace physical and verbal violence… .” Factories, hospitals, government agencies, non-profit organizations, large corporate offices, and any place where people gather to work can be places where violence takes place.
How recently have you examined or amended your organization’s workplace violence or incident management policies to reflect changing circumstances and new knowledge in the field? It’s the communicator’s special skills that are so important in these circumstances and every leader and every manager is looking for competent, compassionate guidance when these situations occur. Are you ready?
These two highly experienced experts will discuss the practical components of workplace violence prevention and response programs. They will walk through several cases, talking about the patterns of behavior to expect, the extraordinarily emotional outcomes that these situations cause, and will provide a number of important checklists to help you assess, prepare, rehearse, and execute should situations of violence occur where you work and where you have some responsibility.
You will also walk through response framework templates you can adapt to your organization. You will come away from this program being better able to prevent, detect, deter, de-escalate, and respond to these potentially devastating situations.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. EDT
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Jim Lukaszewski is author of the Executive Action(c) series, including Crisis Communication Planning Strategies.
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Emotional Continuity Management, pioneered by Vali Hawkins Mitchell, Ph.D. LMHC, is valuable in the face of workplace violence. Vali is the author of Emotional Crises in the Workplace: Protecting Your Business’ Bottom Line – Emotional Continuity Management in the Workplace.
