Return To Work: How to be The Hero During a Mass Disaster [Pt 2]

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Join us for the second in a series of three video interviews on the importance of mental health support

This NEW workbook serves as a guide to the new challenges we are all experiencing as a result of COVID-19 as well as how to prepare for what’s next.

The stages of a mass disaster start with a life disrupting impact. With COVID, we moved quickly to the heroic phase where everyone pitched in working long hours and living off of adrenaline. This stage normally lasts a few days to a few weeks but we are much further along. Now the workforce is stressed and showing signs of fatigue and burnout.
In this second 28-minute video interview with authors Rex Miller and Dr Jeff Jernigan, we address these key concerns and more including:
  1. Overstressed workers will shut down or act out, increasing costs related to discipline issues, lawsuits, and turnover.
  2. Managers will burn out, being unprepared to handle the added burden of their team members’ emotional needs.
  3. Companies will see increased mental health and medical costs from the stress, disruption, and dislocation of the pandemic.

The first video explores why COVID needs to be handled like a mass disaster recovery and can be watched below.

Stay tuned! We conclude this series with the third installment which covers how companies can prepare managers for the new demands and provide mental health support to their employees.

Is this a fit for you or your organization?

READER EXCLUSIVE! WDM readers can enjoy a FREE SUMMARY HERE Interested in more? Check out the hard copy and digital copies here. Note: the digital copy is a living document and is receiving regular updates as additional experts weigh in and more on the subject is learned. If you choose to make a purchase through the links on this page, we may earn a commission.

Be well everyone!

 

Michelle Weiss
Michelle Weiss
Michelle Weiss is our associate publisher and director of development. She came to us fresh from earning her small business MBA helping to start Make It Better Media, a philanthropy-based digital and print media company in Chicago’s North Shore. Prior to that, she cut her chops in the old Chicago Sun-Times Building back when you would know you’d missed your deadline when the building started shaking each evening as they fired up the presses. She’s based in Northbrook, Ill., where she lives with her husband and three sons.
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Michelle Weiss
Michelle Weiss
Michelle Weiss is our associate publisher and director of development. She came to us fresh from earning her small business MBA helping to start Make It Better Media, a philanthropy-based digital and print media company in Chicago’s North Shore. Prior to that, she cut her chops in the old Chicago Sun-Times Building back when you would know you’d missed your deadline when the building started shaking each evening as they fired up the presses. She’s based in Northbrook, Ill., where she lives with her husband and three sons.
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