About the Program

Victim? Survivor? “Sur-Thrivor?” Research indicates that how people attribute meaning to tragic events is a significant indicator regarding their subsequent recovery from them. Leadership strategies and crisis communication processes will be proposed that support growth trajectories. Impact, not incident!

 Learning Objectives:

• Identify critical attibutional questions facing those impacted by tragedy
• Focus upon impact; not incident

• Listing of common why questions such as “Why me?”, “Why do bad things happen to good people?”, “Does this mean I’m a bad person?”, “Did the perpetrator select me because I was the easiest mark?”, “Why am I struggling while others are bouncing back?”, “Who/What can I trust?”, “Where was God?”

•  Explain how the impact of traumatic stress impacts thinking processes and how people are at risk for toxic attribution.

• Identify how tragedy can lead to subsequent tragedies.
• Understand the crucial role attribution of meaning plays in resiliency/recovery trajectories
• Review decision trees and outcomes tied to identified attributional questions
• Review research findings (Bonanno, Galea, Brewin, Hobfoil, Ray, et al) regarding related content
• Describe service delivery case studies from corporate and insurance perspectives as related to Return-To-Work and workers compensation claims metrics.
• Learn crisis communication processes that support individual and organizational resilience
• Identify crisis leadership positioning that supports positive attribution of meaning
• List and describe phase-sensitive, multi-component crisis response
• Outline the ACT crisis communication process to acknowledge, communicate, and transition toward resilience.

 

About the Presenters

Bob VandePol, President, Crisis Care Network

Bob VandePol serves as President of Crisis Care Network, the largest provider of Critical Incident Response Services to the workplace. Crisis Care Network responds 1,000 times per month following workplace tragedies to facilitate employee/organizational return to productivity. He consults with corporations, insurers, EAPs, and behavioral health professionals regarding how to manage the behavioral risks inherent in workplace tragedies. Active as a keynote speaker,Mr. VandePol has published and been quoted in business and clinical journals, co-authored book chapters addressing workplace security and response to tragedy, and has been featured in video training series.Mr. VandePol is a member of the Employee Assistance Professional Association’s Workplace Disaster Preparedness Panel of Experts and the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention.

Training Materials

• Listen to recording
• Download Presentation (pdf)
• Training Evaluation

 

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