Heather D. Horton, Founder of The H-Squared Group LLC, is taking on the misunderstood topic of grief by helping organizations create compassionate and grief-informed workplace cultures.
Grief in the workplace can be difficult to deal with if the organization does not have a support system in place. Many organizations lack the information, training, and best practices needed to effectively respond when death affects their workplace. Every individual responds to the grief caused by the death of a loved one differently and hence there cannot be a one-size-fits-all approach to help such individuals navigate through this period of intense distress.
Grief-related emotions resulting from the coronavirus pandemic are heightened and will definitely spill over into the workplace. A professionally managed organization will not be able to allow death to affect its business activities in terms of services offered or customer expectations. Offering the From Grief to Gratitude Workplace Grief Workshop, Heather helps such organizations find the balance and flow between being compassionately supportive of the individual or affected persons and minimizing any disruption to the workplace.
Heather D. Horton says, “Although I felt supported in my workplace after tragically losing my mother and recovering from my own injuries resulting from the car accident that claimed her life in 2005, I still wish more support had been available instead of my agency making up the rules as we went through the process. I am thankful that I had paid leave available to use after the one-week funeral leave expired since I was unable to return to work for three months. For this reason alone, as well as the secondary losses that impacted my life, including Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath as a resident of New Orleans, I have devoted my life to equipping organizations and management with the tools to inclusively serve your most precious assets, your employees, who devote their lives to the organization's mission daily.”
Studies indicate that grieving employees don’t feel supported at work immediately following a death and in the weeks and months afterwards. According to Dora Carpenter, Founder of the Institute of Professional Grief Coaching, “the way an organization responds to an employee grieving a loss can have deep and long-term implications among their workforce.”
The From Grief to Gratitude Workplace Grief Workshop offers information that can help create a compassionate workplace culture, maintain an engaged workforce, boost employee morale, reduce death-related financial losses, and also work positively for the organization in terms of loyalty, productivity, and employee retention.
If you would like Heather D. Horton to offer your organization a workshop or provide additional grief coaching support services, contact her at Heather@heatherdhorton.com.
About Institute of Professional Grief Coaching:
The Institute of Professional Grief Coaching was founded by Dora Carpenter, the brains behind the From Grief to Gratitude Coach Certification Program. The program is aimed at training and certifying grief coaches who can help grieving individuals go from pain to peace, heartbreak to happiness, and grief to gratitude in the shortest time possible.
For more information on the Workplace Grief Workshop, visit https://www.fromgrieftogratitude.com/workplace-grief.
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