Workplaces are the new complex trauma units
Some workplaces can be compared to a Complex Trauma Unit – is yours one of them?  Recently, three high profile Australian companies were cited in the media when it was alleged their workplace practices contributed to employee suicide.

Numerous studies have shown that the common cause of workplace stress is bullying, bossy and intimidating behaviour and employees feeling devalued.  Employees then experience the negative effects of GI disorders, lowered immunity, loss of confidence, anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts. 

These workplace situations meet the criteria for traumatic exposure.  Events such as workplace violence, bullying, and victimization together with exposure to a wide range of other stressful incidents including accidental injuries can lead to traumatic stress.

Given that staff morale also is a major concern for organisations today, it is apparent that employers need to provide workplace training that offers a set of emotional management tools that support staff, help them avoid costly compensation claims and retain key personnel.

“Providing staff with emotional management tools will improve outcomes in the workplace for both the employee and the employer,” said Professor Richard Bryant, world leader in the field of trauma and post traumatic stress.

WORKTOPIA™ brings the workplace into the 21st century!

Worktopia offers a powerful set of emotional management tools and takes participants on a spectacular journey of the brain to discover how emotional states alter brain function.  What happens when we laugh, get angry, suffer stress, experience pleasure or feel aroused? What effect do these emotions have on performance in the workplace, and on our health and wellbeing?  

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Using science to improve performance in the work place!

The latest scientific evidence shows that the main reason for poor performance and lost time, due to absenteeism of employees,  relates to how they manage their emotions and how they deal with other people in the workplace.

Emotional management tools improve:

• Workplace performance and outputs

• Client relations

• Job satisfaction & staff retention

• Staff attitude and reactions

• Personal development

• Interactions with others 

"We are never going to take stress and pressured situations out of the workplace but what we can do is equip people with emotional management tools so that when they are confronted with pressured situations, they can better manage the issue,” said Prof Bryant.

Worktopia provides employees, and all levels of management, with strategies that will create a productive environment and improve outcomes in the workplace... Equipping your employees with emotional management tools….. is a smart business practice.

Fortunately, there are ways of dealing with emotions in the workplace that will improve outcomes and increase employee productivity.

Employers need to protect themselves and their employees by providing training tools that reflect what the 21st century workplace requires.