Online Workplace Violence Training

Online Courses for Workplace Violence Training

Helping individuals prevail through times of crisis

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Scalable Safety Training For Corporations

With much of the world’s workforce moving to a work-from-home model, E-learning has emerged not only as a more flexible alternative—but one that’s proven to be equally effective at lower costs. Strategos International partners with multinational and domestic corporations across numerous industries to provide flexible online workplace violence training—providing professionals with the knowledge and empowerment needed to respond decisively in times of crisis.

Highlights:

  • PREVAIL! training for corporate organizations, ranging from local businesses to multinationals
  • Available for organizations in every U.S. state and internationally
  • Suitable for all ages and positions within an organization

Flexible Safety Training That Reduces Fear

E-learning has emerged as a less expensive, more flexible, and equally effective alternative to in-person learning for much of the world’s workforce. As highly experienced protection experts, Strategos International partners with organizations across numerous industries to provide flexible online workplace safety training. Focusing on strategies to mitigate workplace violence, our virtual training provides individuals with the knowledge and empowerment needed to respond decisively in times of crisis.

Service Highlights

For Workplace Violence Training

Strategos International performs online workplace violence training through PREVAIL! Trusted by top organizations both within the United States and internationally, this training provides education through active shooter response training and workplace violence mitigation tactics. E-learning training highlights include:

  • PREVAIL! training for healthcare and corporate organizations, schools, and churches
  • Designed for organizations of all sizes
  • Available for organizations in every U.S. state and internationally
  • Suitable for all ages and positions within an organization

How It Works

Highly trained protection specialists from Strategos International work closely with corporate leadership to design flexible training strategies. Each training can be customized to the immediate and long-term needs of the organization. Our online training model provides organizations—particularly large multinationals—with the ability to train larger amounts of people.

All training courses are self-paced to give individuals the opportunity to complete course content within their busy schedules. The primary focus of our online workplace violence training is to reduce fear by giving individuals the education and empowerment to take decisive action during crisis situations.

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Through education and empowerment, Strategos International can help reduce fear within your organization and provide solutions to potential crisis-related problems. Get started today.

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Corporate Security Training

S.A.F.E. Approach for Workplace | Train the Staff Program

About the Program

The S.A.F.E. Approach for Business is designed specifically for those in the professional, commercial, and service industries where the effective use of verbal and non-verbal communication skills can reduce the risk of negative or violent encounters with customers and the public in general.

At the heart of The S.A.F.E. Approach is the concept of recognizing potentially hazardous situations and mitigating their impact all while treating individuals with dignity and respect – a key component. We know that compassion, empathy and a comprehensive understanding of human behavior can resolve or even prevent most conflicts. It’s only on rare occasion that an individual must resort to some form of defensive posture or response, but it’s this key component of our training that separates The S.A.F.E. Approach™ from many others: our simple, effective and easy to remember methods for enhancing personal safety.

Why S.A.F.E?

Businesses today face an ever increasing responsibility to care for and protect their employees. All employers have a general duty to provide their employees with a workplace free from recognized hazards likely to cause death or serious physical harm. Not only must you concern yourself with quality of service or goods you provide, but you also have a duty to protect these individuals from recognized likely causes of physical harm.

Quite frankly, there are a number of considerations you face in bringing a complete workplace violence reduction program to your business. From civil and criminal law to satisfying your customers, each of these requirements has costs associated with them, both in staff training and curriculum expense. As businesses strives to minimize expenses and better manage assets, administrators are looking for programs that are cost-effective and yet provide excellent training and resources to assist in protecting all who enter their facilities.

This is why The S.A.F.E. Approach method was developed; to provide corporate owners, administrators, security directors and others peace of mind in knowing that their employees – at all levels – have been trained in effective methods of resolving conflict. As you familiarize yourself with our program, you will see that we have extensive experience in conflict resolution.

The word Safe in The S.A.F.E. Approach tends to speak for itself; however, to further define our program, we use the acronym S.A.F.E. as follows:

  • S – Safety
    The S.A.F.E. Approach™ method has the safety or everyone in mind. Those who participate in our training learn techniques that will keep them safe and others as well.
  • A – Attitude
    It’s been said that, “We can’t control others actions; we can only control our own!” While this may be true in many encounters, we believe that our own attitude plays an important role in any encounter and has a strong influence on the attitude of others.
  • F – Focus
    In order to be effective, we must maintain focus on the techniques taught. As we all are aware, habits form when we repeat routines of behavior. Done enough, these habits become subconscious activities.
  • E – Empathy
    Empathy has been defined as “the capacity to recognize, and to some extent, share feelings that are being experienced by another.” It is an important component of The S.A.F.E. Approach™ method.

Active Shooter Response | SROs & Small Agencies

Workplace Violence 3 Day

Cost – $697

Strategos’ active shooter training is designed with the idea that you – the person on the scene when the attack occurs – are the true first-responder. What you do may determine who lives and dies that day.

While we’d like to think that people can rise to the occasion, it’s more accurate to state that people rise – or fall – based on the level of their training. Our natural responses to violent intruders are often completely at odds with what we need to do to prevail. Absent training, people have often:

  • Run toward the sound of gunfire to confirm that the threat was real.
  • Engaged in “normalcy bias” – denying that they’re under attack despite overwhelming evidence.
  • Freeze in place instead of taking fundamental actions such as locking a door.

We’ve trained more than 275,000 people (and counting). Knowledge is power – power to resist and prevail against a violent intruder.

When people are trained, they can respond to a threat with confidence and resolve.

High-Risk Terminations | HR, Managers & Supervisors, C-Suite

1 Hour

Who Should Attend: Human Resource Directors, Managers/Supervisors, C-Suite Personnel

Description

Terminations are never easy for either the employee who is being separated or the supervisor/leader who is conducting the termination. Added to existing stressors are the unknowns answers to questions like “How will this termination be received by the employee?” “Will they react with shock or grief?” “Do they have the potential to act out in the form of violence against supervisors and co-workers?” This course will allow the participant to be educated on not only objectively determining if the upcoming termination is “high-risk” but also outline leading practices for assessing, planning and conducting “high-risk terminations”.

Topics Covered

  • Objective Behavior Risk Assessments
  • Two Types of High-Risk Terminations
  • Termination Preparation and Planning
  • Maintaining Dignity and Respect During the Termination Meeting
  • Room Selection for Termination Meeting
  • Safety and Security Mitigation Considerations

Conflict Management & De-Escalation | Employees

2 Hour Level 1

“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but rather the ability to resolve conflict without violence.”

C.T. Lawrence Butler

When it comes to workplace conflict, there are two approaches:

  • Fan the flame
  • Extinguish the flame

Many well-meaning people fuel a conflict when their goal is actually to defuse it. And in today’s volatile workplace environment, that can lead to a crisis. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, more than 2 million Americans experience workplace violence each year.

  • 2 hours of classroom instruction focused on communication, safety awareness, recognition and de-escalation of real world workplace violence situations.
  • Unlimited class size.

No one wants to add to those statistics.

Often, it comes down to a lack of training. And that’s the good news. Many conflicts can be
minimized or avoided with education.

Our Conflict Management and De-Escalation course helps managers and employees:

  • Recognize the signs of a potential conflict
  • Treat all people with dignity and respect
  • Recognize signs of aggression
  • Reduce risk
  • Tactically position yourself for a safe interaction
  • Professionally conduct interviews in a neutral, objective manner
  • De-escalate aggression
  • Turn a negative interaction into a positive one

Strategos International has shared these principles with:

  • Airport personnel
  • U.S. government agencies
  • Health care staff
  • Workplaces in diverse industries

Let us know how we can help you remove unnecessary conflict from your workplace and
free up energy for more productive tasks.

Conflict Resolution | Patient Care & Customer Contact Personnel

8 Hour

“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but rather the ability to resolve conflict without violence.”

C.T. Lawrence Butler

When it comes to workplace conflict, there are two approaches:

  • Fan the flame
  • Extinguish the flame

Many well-meaning people fuel a conflict when their goal is actually to defuse it. And in today’s volatile workplace environment, that can lead to a crisis. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, more than 2 million Americans experience workplace violence each year.

  • 2 hours of classroom instruction focused on communication, safety awareness, recognition and de-escalation of real world workplace violence situations.
  • Level III builds upon the skills learned in Levels I and II.
  • 4 additional hours of training focused team skills that stabilize and control a violent individual who is a danger to themselves or others.
  • Typical Level III students are safety and/or security officers.
  • 20:1 student to instructor ratio.
  • No one wants to add to those statistics.
  • Often, it comes down to a lack of training. And that’s the good news. Many conflicts can be minimized or avoided with education.

Our Conflict Management and De-Escalation course helps managers and employees:

  • Recognize the signs of a potential conflict
  • Treat all people with dignity and respect
  • Recognize signs of aggression
  • Reduce risk
  • Tactically position yourself for a safe interaction
  • Professionally conduct interviews in a neutral, objective manner
  • De-escalate aggression
  • Turn a negative interaction into a positive one

Strategos International has shared these principles with:

  • Airport personnel
  • U.S. government agencies
  • Health care staff
  • Workplaces in diverse industries

Let us know how we can help you remove unnecessary conflict from your workplace and free up energy for more productive tasks.

Conflict Resolution | Field Personnel, Management, & Supervisors

4 Hour Level 2

“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but rather the ability to resolve conflict without violence.”

C.T. Lawrence Butler

When it comes to workplace conflict, there are two approaches:

  • Fan the flame
  • Extinguish the flame

Many well-meaning people fuel a conflict when their goal is actually to defuse it. And in today’s volatile workplace environment, that can lead to a crisis. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, more than 2 million Americans experience workplace violence each year.

  • 2 hours of classroom instruction focused on communication, safety awareness, recognition and de-escalation of real world workplace violence situations.
  • Level II builds upon the skills learned in Level I.
  • 2 additional hours of training focused on self-protection physical skills while calling for staff and/or security rescue.
  • Designed for employees and staff with a high level of public interaction.
  • 20:1 student to instructor ratio.

No one wants to add to those statistics.

Often, it comes down to a lack of training. And that’s the good news. Many conflicts can be minimized or avoided with education.

Our Conflict Management and De-Escalation course helps managers and employees:

  • Recognize the signs of a potential conflict
  • Treat all people with dignity and respect
  • Recognize signs of aggression
  • Reduce risk
  • Tactically position yourself for a safe interaction
  • Professionally conduct interviews in a neutral, objective manner
  • De-escalate aggression
  • Turn a negative interaction into a positive one

Strategos International has shared these principles with:

  • Airport personnel
  • U.S. government agencies
  • Health care staff
  • Workplaces in diverse industries

Let us know how we can help you remove unnecessary conflict from your workplace and free up energy for more productive tasks.

Active Shooter Prevention & Response | Managers & Supervisors

Workplace Violence 2 Hour

The objectives and topics covered during this training provide workplace leaders, administrators, supervisors, human resource personnel, security and front line personnel with information and strategies on recognizing and responding to the violent intruder.

If the event were to occur what would the impact be to our customers, employees and culture? And how does “preparing in advance” assist in either preventing the event or mitigating the impact if it were to occur.

The overall goal of this training program is to provide the course participant with guiding principles and strategies to recognize behavioral pre-cursors to threatening and potentially violent incidents and then to respond accordingly.

Participants will learn to:

  • Recognize the frequency of incidents of intruder related violence in the workplace
  • Physiological & Psychological “pros vs. cons” of “trained vs. untrained” employees
  • Identify and recognize risk factors that are inherent to the workplace
  • Recognize on-duty law enforcement capabilities/limitations in responding to these types of incidents
  • Understand and accept that the violent intruder event will most likely be over PRIOR to law enforcement arrival or as the intruder becomes aware of law enforcement presence
  • Understanding the importance of awareness, education and training for front line personnel
  • Attacker/Intruder psychological worldview, goals and motivations
  • Understand and implement principles of LOCKDOWN – “preventing access” vs. “delayed egress” in the workplace
  • Understand and implement principles of LOCKDOWN FAILURE “preventing access failure” via the “3 OUT RESPONSE MODEL”
  • Behavior & Body Language Indicators/Pre-cursors that could escalate to violence
  • Introduction to Behavior Risk Assessments
  • High Risk Termination Criteria & Best Practices
  • Recognize and understand phenomenon of “Normalcy Bias” and training relative to overcoming this phenomenon
  • Understand sensory based decision making and how it affects proper and improper response to the crisis

Training includes classroom lecture, instructor walkthrough, demonstration and Q&A’s as well as realistic scenario based training that activates the “sympathetic nervous system”. Activating the SNS in training has proven most effective in preparing staff and personnel for response beyond the level of “lockdown” only and truly gives them the capacity to mitigate and prevail in this “worse case scenario.” Curriculum includes not only lockdown training but also “lockdown failure” response principles.

Behavior Risk Assessments

1 Hour

Who Should Attend – Human Resource Directors, Managers/Supervisors, C-Suite Personnel

Description

Have you had an employee that co-workers or supervisors were concerned about their behavior related to potential violence or self-harm? Has progressive discipline related to decreased performance now reached the point of a separation or termination of an employee?

No single behavioral indicator (other than direct threats) is an accurate predictor of the potential for future violence. As bad as missing behavioral risk indicators is unfairly labeling someone a risk when they really are not.

This course will allow the participant to transition from a subjective opinion about predictive potential of future violence or self-harm to an objective assessment of a current or former employee. Many times, employees or supervisors will “assess” or voice their concerns based on a statement like “I have a bad feeling about how Jim is going to handle this corrective action or termination.” When asked if they can be more specific, they really cannot provide more objective information that will allow the organization to determine if this will be handled as a “high-risk termination” or not.

Topics Covered

  • Victim vs. Victimizer Worldview
  • Aggravating vs. Protective Behavioral Factors
  • Cluster and Singular Risk Factors
  • Risk Assessment Scoring
  • Subjective Opinion vs. Objective Assessments

Our Values

Why Work With Strategos?

Experience

Since 2002, Strategos International has provided services to over 300,000 corporate, government, school, faith-based, law enforcement, and military professionals in over 15 countries globally.

Scalability

Our protection professionals have the ability to customize our online workplace safety training based on the unique challenges of individual organizations.

Uncompromising

All of our services take steps to ensure that our recommendations and services do not compromise your individual or organizational core mission and culture.

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Training benefits
  • Reduce anxiety & fear
  • Increase response capability
  • Decrease liability exposure