Workplace Violence Prevention Webinars

PROTECT YOUR EMPLOYEES AND YOUR COMPANY FROM DANGER AND VIOLENCE, AND AVOID COSTLY LIABILITY EXPENSES.

Our Workplace Violence Prevention Webinar offers practical tools for preventing workplace conflict and avoiding legal battles.

Your employees participating in this interactive webinar will increase their knowledge about preventing workplace violence for their safety and safety of others. They can ask questions, give answers and interact with Paula during the webinar. Protect your organization in our challenging economy by making sure everyone learns the warning signs and behaviors that can lead to violence and how they should react when they are aware of possible warning signals. (These signals are discussed in Paula's article on Preventing Violence in the Workplace.)

Participants will learn (partial list):

• Signs to tip off employers and employees of potential violence (increasing) - disgruntled employees
• Behavior changes that may indicate the need for professional help
• How to approach a disgruntled employee
• When professional counseling is indicated
• Other factors that may put someone over the edge to act out violently
• Background factors that are Red Flags
• Liability - who is responsible if violent situations occur
• Types of situations that may trigger Violence in the Workplace

Advantages of Workplace Violence Prevention Webinars

Less costly - With webinars, there are no travel or hotel costs to organization

Greater Productivity - You can schedule your employees at several times, and avoid disrupting work productivity.

Legal Compliance - We'll show you how to satisfy Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) requirements (see OSHA workplace violence compliance directive).

Each webinar is designed to enable participants and their employers to learn about real-life examples of the risks and associated costs of mishandling difficult employee matters. The objective of each webinar is to provide participants with practical tools for the identification and early intervention of potentially disruptive employee conduct.

Importance of Preventing a Hostile Workplace

Whether dealing in the aftermath of downsizing, getting through a merger or acquisition, or merely dealing with the everyday stresses at work, this webinar provides tools to manage anger effectively. Managers and individual contributors benefit as they learn constructive ways to deal with hostile feelings in order to avoid aggression and the potential for violence and legal action.

Customizing the Workplace Violence Prevention Webinar for your Organization

To customize this webinar specifically for your organization, we start with a needs assessment and work with your representatives to refine the details to be covered. We also offer a packaged webinar without customization.

These Workplace Violence Prevention Webinars use the latest technology to bring top-notch training to your doorstep economically and with a minimum of logistics. And you still benefit from Paula's Leslie's expertise, dynamic delivery and personal attention.

Essential Life Strategies is an organizational consulting company specializing in Workplace Violence Prevention Webinars, in addition to psychotherapy, consulting, workshops and seminars. The Essential Life Strategies founder is Paula Leslie, LCSW, BCD, who specializes in Preventing Workplace Violence. With over 29 years of experience as an organizational consultant, psychotherapist, speaker and author, she is uniquely qualified to address this complex subject matter.

Paula's book, Anger in the Workplace: A Catalyst for Change, offers tools to handle workplace frustrations effectively to avoid conflict and potential violence.

Paula's expertise enables her to teach complicated material in a practical, straightforward, hands-on manner. Areas of specialty covered in the webinars include

• Preventing Violence in the Workplace (including Sexual Harassment information as Hostile Workplace)
• Stress Management
• Strategies for Managing Change

Paula has worked in conjunction with employment law attorneys to educate and minimize potential liability issues in organizations.

Paula is a frequent keynote speaker. Her articles have appeared in newspapers and she has been featured on numerous radio and TV shows, including an Oct. 6, 2011 radio interview with Holly Kwan, KCBS, San Francisco. Paula's consulting and lecturing has taken her throughout the USA and to Capetown, South Africa. Paula has been an adjunct Professor at John F. Kennedy University in Campbell, CA. Clients include start-ups as well as large companies. Hewlett Packard, Cisco, Pacific Hotel Management, Santa Clara Convention center are a few of Essential Life Strategies clients. (See testimonials and a more complete list of clients.)

Essential Life Strategies has trained thousands of employees for organizations of all sizes and in several languages throughout North America on Prevention of Workplace Violence, including sexual harassment and related topics.