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Managing Workplace Violence

Preferred Session Length: Variable
Facilitator: W. Barry Nixon

Summary

Barry teaches his seven-step model for managing and preventing workplace violence. Here are a few of the seven steps.

Step One

  • Make Workplace Violence a priority
  • Form a cross functional/multi-level strategy team
  • Develop overall program & policies to address the issue

Step Four

  • Develop a positive relationship with local law enforcement
  • Develop effective and rapid response processes
  • Define process to use law enforcement procedures to prevent and address occurrences

Step Six

  • Develop crisis procedures for responding to an incident including a crisis communication plan before they are needed

About the Facilitator

W. Barry Nixon, SPHRW. Barry Nixon, SPHR is the Executive Director, the National Institute for Prevention of Workplace Violence, Inc., a company focused on assisting organizations to effectively implement programs to prevent workplace violence. He has over twenty years of Human Resources and Organization Development experience in Fortune 500 companies and is well grounded in the real issues companies face.

He develops practical solutions based on having been there and having implemented workplace violence programs in the eighties before this issue was identified as a top organizational issue.

Contact us to see when Barry would be available to help your company and employees deal with workplace violence prevention.

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