Employees are the most important asset for running your organization and serving clients. Research indicates that illness or a death in the family is the second most common problem which affects workplace performance (stress is #1). When a death or other serious crisis occurs, on average it impacts the lives of more than 25 other people. Grief and loss can affect the individual or the entire team. Handling loss at work is challenging on a personal and professional level.
While 84% of companies have Employee Assistance Programs, only 10% of employees use them. Managers and co-workers need to do more than just send a grieving individual to an EAP program which only addresses part of the grief/crisis picture.
In this webinar you will learn (learning objectives):
- The impact of grief and how it affects the entire team.
- What to do and say in times of crisis & grief.
- How to talk to a grieving individual as well as their co-workers.
- How the team’s productivity is affected during the grieving/crisis period.
Get ready to put plan in place to train your staff on how to handle grief or crisis in the workplace BEFORE a crisis arises.
About the Presenter: Linda Trignano
For more than 24 years Linda has worked facilitating grief recovery support groups, training grief facilitators, as well as working with individuals who are in the process of recovering from grief and loss.
She has worked with individuals experiencing a divorce or death, children who have lost a parent, relative or close friend to death or divorce, as well as training for a unique Rainbows program to work with the children of 9/11 victims. She is a certified facilitator through the Newark, NJ Diocese to create and run grief support groups. She also has training from Hospice to work with terminally ill patients.
All of this combined with over 18 years of corporate management roles with extensive experience in Employee Development Planning, Team Dynamics, Change/Transition Management and HR Quality Process Management has given her the unique skills to effectively train managers, staff and employees to be compassionate.
Tags:
crisis management, employee support, grief communication, team productivity, teamwork, workplace grief
