Excuse me? How could you not? I just don’t get that. I talk with executives frequently and when I get that response it frustrates me. I can understand budgetary restrictions so long as it applies to all programs considered. But to have the same old, same old – or programs that are Band-aids®, or the “flavor of the month” just to pacify that the workplace is still doing trainings makes no sense to me.
How can a workplace have “team building” or “motivation day” when many employees are going to go home to the same problems that make them unmotivated in the first place? Just because you take your department offsite to go bowling doesn’t make the abuse and violence stop at home.
The value of having a comprehensive, prevention based, company-wide domestic violence initiative is to address the very root of the problem; that something serious, painful and even dangerous that’s happening at home is going to cross over into the workplace. And no amount of bowling parties, customer service trainings or sales seminars is going to change that.
The value in management and human resources talking an active concern is that no workplace functions without the very employees that make up its core.

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