Workplace Trauma

Dramatically improve workplace relationships simply by learning your coworkers’ language of appreciation. Based on the number one New York Times best seller The 5 Love Languages® (over 12 million copies sold), this book will give you the tools to improve staff moral, create a more positive workplace, and increase employee engagement. How? By teaching you to effectively communicate authentic appreciation and encouragement to employees, coworkers, and leaders.

Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent more than three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.

In workplaces nationwide, women of color need frank talk and honest advice on how to deal with microaggressions, heal from racialized trauma, and find relief from invisible workplace burdens. Filled with Minda Harts’ signature wit and warmth, Right Within offers strategies for women of color to speak up during racialized moments with managers and clients, work through past triggers they may not even know still cause pain, and reframe past career disappointments as opportunities to grow into a new path.

An expert on youth and youth culture, McKee shares his own heart-rending story and offers a sobering glimpse into the rapidly changing world of bullies, bystanders, and the bullied while providing helpful ways to connect with these kids, open doors of dialogue, and give them the encouragement they need and the validation they're searching for...too often in all the wrong places.

Every organization from any sector can benefit from becoming trauma-informed. Trauma-informed workplaces understand and recognize the presence of trauma, acknowledge the role trauma can play in a person’s life, and promote work environments that support the individual and collective well-being of all staff and clients. They create a sense of belonging, connection, and safety through their attitudes, policies, and practices. As a result of these practices, organizations that are trauma-informed are more resilient and better equipped to achieve their missions.

Every employee at every level wants to feel seen, heard, and respected. If we don’t feel safe, we can’t be our best selves or do our most creative work. This is why leaders must ensure psychological safety for everyone in their team. Whether you’re a manager, CEO, or entrepreneur, The Psychological Safety Playbook is the guide you need to lead your team to the highest levels of performance and innovation.

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other infamous strategists. The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any listener interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.

Have you ever felt stuck in a cycle of unresolved pain, playing offenses over and over in your mind? You know you can't go on like this, but you don't know what to do next. Lysa TerKeurst has wrestled through this journey. But in surprising ways, she’s discovered how to let go of bound-up resentment and overcome the resistance to forgiving people who aren’t willing to make things right. With deep empathy, therapeutic insight, and rich Bible teaching coming out of more than 1,000 hours of theological study, Lysa will help you stop suffering because of what other people have done to you.

If you're among the millions of adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), you need the latest facts about the disorder and its treatment. You need practical strategies to help develop your strengths and achieve your goals, whether on the job, in family relationships, or in personal pursuits. From renowned ADHD researcher/clinician Russell A. Barkley, this is the book for you. Dr. Barkley takes you through the process of seeking professional help, addresses frequently asked questions about medications and other treatments, and offers a wealth of advice and tips.

This book is crucial for every manager or HR representative who shouldn’t just prepare to one day be faced with a report of a traumatic experience at work, but plan on it. This five-step method will help managers make survivors feel supported and understood. The Empathetic Workplace guides supervisors of any level through an understanding of how stories of trauma impact the brain of both the survivor and the listener, as well as the tools to handle the interaction appropriately, to help the listener, the organization, and most importantly, the survivor.

A best-selling author and neuroscientist offers five proven steps to help you overcome the unhealthy thinking habits that contribute to anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts and replace them with positive thinking that leads to health, happiness, and success.

He's the grump with a shattered past. She's the sunshine determined to put him back together—if his demons don't break them both first. I don’t do smiles. I don’t do team bonding, calendar shoots, or charity events. I play hockey. I stay out of the spotlight. After what happened, I learned two things: never get close enough to get burned and trust is just another word for weakness. Then Lily Thompson storms into my life—PR sunshine wrapped in floral dresses and relentless optimism. Her job? Drag me, the resident grump, into her world of photo ops and feel-good content. Her goal? ...

YOUR BUSINESS IS LOSING MONEY RIGHT NOW...a lot of money, due to GRIEF’S INFLUENCE in your workplace. And this can only happen for one or more of a few reasons:~ You mistakenly believe that grief has no impact on your business ~ You just ignore it, because facing mortality is uncomfortable ~ You believe outsourcing it to an EAP will fix an emotionally troubled employee ~ You are unwisely indifferent to your most valuable assets outside the job Were you aware that even before the devastating impacts of COVID, available studies show: American Businesses Lose Over $100 Billion in Revenue ...

Lennon Wells and Beckham Sullivan should have been perfect for each other. Both vulnerable, both striving to please difficult families, and both broken by the past. Going from friends to lovers seemed inevitable. So did a bad ending. They thought—they hoped—they’d never see each other again. Years later, bad luck or fate, Lennon and Beckham find themselves working for the same magazine. The wounds are still raw, but the chemistry is there. Then they’re forced to work together on a project.

Mercer Sinclair has hated Dr. Loren Collins since she first started graduate school at Princeton University. Seven years later, Mercer is working in the English department at Princeton and she is offered the opportunity of a lifetime: a fully-funded collaborative research project. This project has the power to skyrocket her career and give her the exposure she desperately craves. The one drawback? She has to work with Loren, the very man she can’t stand. Loren Collins has been infatuated with Mercer Sinclair for seven years. She’s consumed his mind and he can’t stay away. When he’s ...

The Betrayal Recovery Roadmap How Unhealed Betrayal Sabotages Performance—and What to Do About It By Dr. Debi Silber, Founder and CEO, The PBT® Institute What if the real reason for burnout, disengagement, and low morale in your workplace isn’t about performance at all—but about personal pain that’s never been resolved? Betrayal doesn't stay at home. It walks into your office disguised as brain fog, absenteeism, mistrust, poor boundaries, and reactive leadership. Whether the betrayal stems from infidelity, broken family ties, or personal trauma, it impacts how we show up—and how ...

The abuse and oppression of women in the workplace has been an issue since the mid-1800’s during the Industrial Revolution, when women officially became a part of the labor force. Ignored or brushed off as whining and complaining, women employees continue to endure gender bias, bullying, gaslighting, sexual harassment, and more at an alarming rate. The presence of psychological safety is often missing in their workspaces. In this anthology a group of women have come together to share their real-world point of view about their time in the corporate sector. This book is a collection of ...

I crave him. But I have to leave him in six months. Mateo Powerful. Attentive. Focused on security. As the primary campus police officer at Mount Laguna College, he doesn't have time to mess around. Until Peyton falls into his lap. She's as focused as he is. Sometimes too focused. And strife on campus is growing. The last thing he wants is for her to get caught in the middle. Peyton Focused. Forgetful. Determined. She only has six months on the MLC campus as s a liaison from the Department of Education at Mount Laguna College. Six measly months. It was supposed to be a simple assignment, ...

Thoroughly revised and updated, David Noer's classic book about downsized organizations has never been more relevant. Reports of the most recent layoffs are making the front pages of our newspapers with frightening regularity. And massive downsizing continues to reshape the face of American business. But what about those who remain behind? Healing the Wounds provides an antidote to the widespread malaise on the American business scene left in the wake of workforce reductions.

Organizational trauma takes many forms. It could be a pandemic that disrupts the way people work. An economic meltdown. An act of violence. A failed merger. A layoff - or continual threats of one. Whatever the scenario, events like these can traumatize leaders and employees, sending everyone into survival mode. Filled with tools and tactics, Trauma to Triumph is an organization-wide blueprint for navigating a future where we’ll likely experience one trauma or crisis after another.