Category: Grief and Loss in the Workplace
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A Severe Accident Causes Workplace Trauma
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Most days going to work follows a fairly routine pattern. Up at the sound of the alarm, shower, dress, perhaps eat breakfast if time allows. For some, the day’s routine includes getting children off to school or daycare as well. For the most part, we don’t give much thought to the routine or expect much…
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WHAT IF TRAUMA TOUCHES YOUR WORKPLACE?
This weekend’s deadly shootings have highlighted the need for Human Resources professionals and company officers to prepare their staffs to handle workplace trauma. As the weekend’s events have shown, any company, in a moment, could be dealing with loss at their workplace. The deaths of the victims of this weekend’s violence will touch the lives of…
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A New Employee’s Serious Illness Dilemma
Cheryl Corin-Bonder, a new employee at a small company discovered she had a serious blood disorder which resulted in the need for extended days off and a stem cell transplant. Cheryl was devastated by the lack of support, compassion and the decisions the company made. Here’s her story. I was working with a small company that dealt…
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Double Grief – a Beloved Pet and a Cherished Grandmother
Pamela Putman talks about the lack of understanding and support two different companies showed during two different losses in her life and how each company could have handled the employee’s need for understanding and leave time in a more compassionate & practical way. WANT TO HEAR EARLIER EPISODES? Listen Now Share this valuable information with Line…
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Loss of a team member
Teresa Bittner talks about her experience as a new IT manager when her team member was killed on their way home after a long work shift and her inexperience navigating through minimal company support.WANT TO HEAR EARLIER EPISODES? Listen Now Share this valuable information with Line Managers & HR Managers Insert your tweetable quote/phrase here…
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A Teachers – Sudden Loss
Teresa Bittner about the devastating loss of her husband in a motorcycle accident and how her school district rallied around her and her family.WANT TO HEAR EARLIER EPISODES? Listen Now Share this valuable information with Line Managers & HR Managers
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The Sudden Loss of a Husband
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April Ford talks about the sudden loss of her husband who also worked in the same department at Intel. April discusses how having an advocate at her company helped her navigate through corporate policy.Coach Linda explores how April’s experience impacted her work at Intel and why she subsequently left that position to start a new…
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The Devastating Impact of September 11th Years Later
Carrie Green talks about her experience watching the World Trade Center Towers fall on September 11th and the aftermath of helping those crossing the Hudson River to escape the horrors of that fateful day. As someone who worked in the World Trade Center as well as for the New York Stock Exchange, she and her fellow…
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GRIEVING THE LOSS OF A CHILD TO DRUGS
Jeffery Veatch talks about living with the painful loss of his son Justin, a talented musician who tragically died of an accidental drug overdose at the age of seventeen and how he and his wife, Marina struggled with surviving. He describes the unbearable moments he experienced after reaching work early one morning and being told to…
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DOWNSIZING GRIEF TAKES ITS TOLL
Share this valuable information with Line Managers & HR Managers Pat Werscherl talks about how downsizing affected her and her team, which she considered to be like family. During a large corporate merger and subsequent layoffs, Pat and her team experienced many of the emotions associated with grief. She talks about the denial that the…
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An Executive’s Unexpected Journey
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Ron Gold talks about a bike ride that put him on a path he never expected to take and forever changed his life. After being hit and seriously injured by an SUV, Ron’s successful 25-year career on Wall Street ended abruptly. He went through five months of hospitalization and therapy and returned home to begin…
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You Just Never Know
Recently an article appeared in my local newspaper that caught my attention. A woman wrote to the newspaper to apologize and thank a man she had encountered at the post office. Seems the man held the door open for her as she entered the building but lost in her own thoughts, she failed to notice…