Category: Articles, Communications, Education, Human Resources, Lost Wages, Medical & Healthcare, Psychology/Psychiatry, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts, Safety Omicron Reveals the Fundamental Lack of Nonprofit Leadership Vision About the Future of Work TASA ID: 22108 Leaders are sticking their heads into the sand of reality on Omicron. Unless they take needed steps, the results may be catastrophic for their nonprofits. Omicron took over from Delta in the US in late December. The CDC warns that Omicron’s higher infectivity and ability to escape vaccines will overwhelm many hospitals in January. Unfortunately, most organizations are not pivoting effectively to meet Omicron. From the start of the pandemic, many leaders insisted on a return to a “normal” office-centric culture. That’s despite the fact that a large majority of employees express a strong desire for a flexible hybrid or fully remote schedule. Read more
Category: Articles, Communications, Firearms/Guns, Law Enforcement & Corrections, Resources for Attorneys, Safety “To Protect and Serve ALL” S.O.P.S. (Survey of Police Service) for COPS TASA ID: 1646 Please note: “Police” and “Law Enforcement Officer” are used interchangeably. The following questions are designed to help and enable law enforcement officers to mentally walk in the shoes of every citizen they serve. Thinking like, and feeling for, every community citizen served by law enforcement officers, are the most humanistic and humane ways to protect and serve all. Law Enforcement Officers are invited to take this 121-item survey themselves as an invaluable, progressive forward step toward thinking like the community they are sworn to serve. Read more
Category: Articles, Business & Commerce, Communications, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts, Safety Disaster planning: Training for the perils of weapons of mass exposure, 2020 PUBLISHED WITH PERMISSION FROM the JOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE PROTECTION MANAGEMENT TASA ID: 12689 In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we offer our third article for this journal on handling emergency situations involving mass exposure contaminates [1][2]. One of us (Scaglione) has also authored a book speaking to proactive event prevention and effective resolution [3]. In the pages that follow, we provide an Emergency Preparedness Readiness Checklist that can serve as a roadmap for security executives to follow for more effective disaster management, and we expand on the checklist. We offer guidance on protecting hospital staff, patients, and visitors from becoming contaminated, and we address risk assessment engineering and design, proactive risk exposure mitigation, and innovative recovery strategies for moving forward once emergencies have passed. Read more
Category: Articles, Business & Commerce, Communications, Employment, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts REPUTATION DAMAGE EMANATES FROM ACTIONS AS WELL AS WORDS “It takes years to build a reputation but only minutes to have it destroyed.” TASA ID: 2156 For someone who has served as an expert witness in approximately three dozen defamation cases, there is little question that negative communications disseminated in writing (libel) or verbally (slander) or both can be devastating to the image, reputation and/or good will of an individual, business, institution, public sector entity, or any other type of recipient targeted. Defamation is normally defined as a false statement, published to a third party, that is damaging and is meant to harm and results from negligence, reckless disregard for the truth or malice. Read more
Category: Articles, Business & Commerce, Communications, Employment, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts What Covid-19 Has Taught Us About Leading Through a Crisis TASA ID: 1056 Leading always has challenges! However, we have never had to lead through a crisis like Covid-19. The past three months have brought challenges like no other. During a time of crisis, leaders are required to lead and manage effectively. Managing the urgent needs of the present and taking decisive actions. Strong leaders guide people to the best possible eventual outcomes, which demand seeing beyond the present in order to anticipate obstacles ahead. Read more