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Dr. Mark Lerner can help you develop the strategies, policies, and team needed to face future traumas
In the event of a workplace crisis involving a sudden death, a serious illness, an accident, a threat of violence, a criminal act, a swine flu epidemic or other tragedy, what will you do to keep people functioning?
In businesses that range from a dozen employees to several hundred-which represents 98% of the employers in the U.S.-people generally turn to trusted friends and colleagues for support. During a crisis, it's easier to talk to those we know, members of the organizational family, than strangers. Notwithstanding these caregivers' efforts, the magnitude of traumatic events often overwhelms individuals and their families, and eventually adversely impact their ability to effectively perform their job.
Dr. Mark Lerner can empower your organization to develop its own Crisis Management Team. Having such a team and being fully prepared to appropriate respond in time of crisis has significant benefits:
The same effective principles being utilized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the United Nations Department of Safety and Security can be available to your organization-taught by Dr. Mark Lerner, who provided training for these organizations.
You can be prepared, so you can be responsive, when a traumatic event impacts your organization. First, Mark can help you develop a repertoire of skills for peer caregivers, so that your organization has resources to draw upon immediately.
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Because the insights and information that Mark offers can ensure stability within your organization. Because you want to ensure that people continue to function effectively and with minimal stress after a crisis.
Research affirms that the best help early on is rendered by trained and empowered peers, not by strangers. So by creating a crisis management strategy for your business and developing a team to implement that strategy, you are protecting your organization's greatest asset-its people. Dr. Lerner's program can be the first, vital step in saving your business thousands of dollars in lost productivity per employee, and minimizing psychological damage or feelings of isolation in the aftermath of a trauma.
If you're interested in learning more about Dr. Lerner just out his speaker page on this website. And to check his availability, just call or email us at Esparza Speakers today.