Myths vs. Reality about Offenders
Reclaim Your Power to Protect the Organization & Its People
You’re not as powerless as perpetrators try to make you feel. They won’t respond to your disciplinary threats, so it’s time to bring in the expert, Dr. Gary Namie, the Work Doctor, co-founder and director of Workplace Bullying Institute. He has spent decades consulting to organizations, teaching management, authoring studies, and serving as an expert witness in litigation cases. He understands your liabilities.
It’s time to hold the destructive offenders accountable. Employees have been waiting for you to take responsible action.
The Work Doctor Respectful Conduct Clinic Intervention
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Confrontation – made to face the undeniable behavioral record
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Coaching – skill gaps identified, training
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Re-Alignment – organizational needs prioritized over the personal
The proprietary Respectful Conduct Clinic (RCC) is designed to address high-profile, destructive aggressors in organizations.
Forget expensive attempts to change the offender’s personality. They don’t work. RCC is based on wisdom gleaned from experience — 35+ years organizational consulting, 21 years university professor, and 27 years as the originator of the workplace bullying consulting field.
The RCC service includes:
- Meeting with the offender’s executive to set behavioral expectations
- Review of complaints, completed investigations, prior actions taken
- Interviews with some affected individuals
- Record compiled of destructive behaviors by the offender
- 1.5 days live, interactive session with the offender and Dr. Namie
- Personal development contract to constrain future conduct
- 6 months of periodic, unannounced evaluations of compliance
RCC is a personalized, custom Intervention — part empathy, part confrontation, part prioritization of the organization’s needs over those of the offender. During the 1.5 days of live, remote sessions with the offender Dr. Gary Namie engages in: Assessment, Confrontation of Denial, Training, Coaching, and Re-Alignment with Organization Values.
Disclaimer: The RCC is a personalized business process, not psychotherapy or a clinical service. Dr. Namie is a social, not licensed clinical, psychologist. The RCC is not a substitute for treatment by a mental health professional.
Results/Deliverables
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Reduced employer vicarious liability for offender’s misconduct
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Save the cost of paying legal counsel — approx. $50,000 – $100,000
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Leaders’ credibility boosted for addressing abuse, the heart of toxic workplaces
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Accountability replaces impunity for harming others
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Psychological and psychosocial safety for coworkers who endured the offender’s aggression
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Uncoupling of offender’s aggression from “brilliance” used to justify misconduct
Sampling of RCC clients
Fee for Respectful Conduct Clinic: 1 Offender
Respectful Conduct Clinic is a separate service, not part of the Work Doctor® Blueprint bundle of services.
Fee is determined by organization size and offender’s rank.
The fee starts at $12,000, a fraction of potential legal expenses.
