AUTHOR S AFTERTHOUGHTS


AUTHOR'S AFTERTHOUGHTS

Whenever I read a newspaper now, and a headline says something like, "Executive director quits company amidst rumors of misappropriations of funds" I start doing the math in my head. The headline targets the identified culprit and suggests that some spinning process is happening, or has been happening for a long time but now has moved from the covert to the overt. I think about the employees and the managers and the spouses and the children and the counselors and the lawyers and the classroom teachers and the day-care providers and the grandparents and the spins that will be a natural consequence of this headline. I know that the headline is the tip of the iceberg. I wonder if anyone is helping the survivors? I know that no one would hire me to help because the company probably does not have a policy to debrief employees from such an emotional event. They might have a disaster plan for a tornado or a nuclear meltdown, but not an emotional spin or an employee meltdown. I feel frustrated and powerless. I know that some counselor will be making money off this tragic headline. Liquor and probably chocolate sales volume will go up. Productivity at the company involved will go down. Domestic violence, child abuse, and other nasty side effects of fear and instability will wobble the local economy. Lawyers will be making plans to take their families to Tahiti after finishing the work that has been created for them. Doctors will prescribe more antidepressants, and more pharmaceutical products are sold. Children who are stressed because mom or dad are stressed will be more likely to be targeted as ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) when they act out their tension in the classroom. Some will be put on medications because the teachers and the parents don't know how to manage emotionally spinning children or just don't have the financial resources to be as compassionate as they would like to be. The teachers don't have the support and so they begin to spin. And perhaps no one will be there for them either. The pharmaceutical industry may benefit but pharmaceutical industry employees will be stressed, too.

I will try to get papers published and books written and seminars presented to ears that do not want to hear and think that the "soft side of business" should be left to those HR types because it has nothing to do with the bottom line. I will answer the phone in my private counseling practice and take on another client. One at a time takes a long time.




Emotional Terrors in the Workplace. Protecting Your Business' Bottom Line. Emotional Continuity Management in the Workplace
Emotional Terrors in the Workplace: Protecting Your Business Bottom Line - Emotional Continuity Management in the Workplace
ISBN: B0019KYUXS
EAN: N/A
Year: 2003
Pages: 228

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