Overview : "Business as usual" is the motto for most companies; and client deadlines, end-of-month quotas and efficient workgroups are the names of the game in most companies. These perspectives change when a personal hardship enters the workplace, confusing co-workers and managers of how to maintain business as usual. This workshop will help workplaces remain productive while learning how to tackle employee personal challenges by re-addressing the employee's responsibility in a professional, sympathetic and compromising format.Compromise will be accomplished by identifying the challenges and obstacle of both the employee and employer creating a suitable and compassionate workplace.Why should you attend: When an employee is challenged by a personal hardship such as a death, divorce, illness, deployment, financial strain, natural or community disaster or obligated to become a caregiver for a family member their passion and commitment to the workplace requires a shift. At the same time, a company is obligated by deadlines, client needs and a sense of strong employee moral. The intersection of needs of both parties often collides creating tension between the employee suffering the hardship, co-workers and management. It is inevitable that all employees will experience some type of set-back, including family status change, serious illness, and financial strain or children challenges while employed. Anxiety associated with these hardships can be avoided with appropriate training and communication of the personal and professional obstacles and challenges that occur. Providing the necessary tools to understand the hardship through education and procedures for team support to maintain productivity are vital to a positive outcome of the situation. Addressing the challenges and understanding the obstacles will lead to compromise professionally and personally. Areas Covered in the Session:Learning what is a personal hardship and why an employer should be involved?Understanding how this hardship will effect the workplaceIdentifying the challenges that should be expected when balancing the situationRecognizing the obstacles that occur between the employee, workgroup and managementDefining areas of compromiseProviding best practices to work around and through these obstaclesFocusing on how to manage the situation rather than determine if it is appropriateLearning the importance of work/life balanceWho Will Benefit:Co-workersTeam LeadersSupervisorsFront-Line ManagersHR StaffPolicy Decision MakersRachel Kodanaz founder of Grief in the Workplace, is a national speaker, facilitator and author on all aspects of grief, specifically supporting the workplace. Rachel entered the grief world when her husband suddenly passed away leaving her with a 2-year-old daughter.