Customized Solutions For Work
We effect sustainable change through customized, innovative solutions tailored to your workplace environment that are research-based and proven to be the most effective strategies to prevent and respond to incivility, harassment, violence and discrimination in the workplace.
Achieve Sustainable Change
We partner with organizations who are committed to building the capacity to achieve sustainable change. In this partnership, Soteria Solutions is the catalyst, with our tailored solutions igniting change and our clients carrying the torch to maintain a workplace that is safe and respectful for everyone.
An Overview of Our Approach
Effecting lasting change is not a check-the-box effort. To achieve lasting change in the Workplace requires understanding of one’s organizational frameworks to uncover the strengths that can be built on.
Common Symptoms of Incivility, Harassment, Violence and Discrimination in the Workplace include:
Communication issues
High turnover
High absences
Incidents of aggression and bullying
Stress-related illnesses
Underperformance
Reduced productivity
Our Workplace Solutions typically include two lenses with the initial focus on one’s organizational frameworks:
ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORKS & THE ROLE OF THE BYSTANDER
We believe in the importance of organizational frameworks to prevent and respond to incivility, harassment, violence and discrimination in the workplace. Organizational frameworks are the pillars of an organization and include components such as goals, strategic plans, company values, policies, job descriptions, cultural norms, performance reviews and incentives.
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The role of the bystander: decades of research show the important role of bystander intervention to prevent, respond and react to incivility, violence, discrimination and harassment. As we work with organizations, we offer proven solutions that help employees, contractors, staff and management to develop capabilities and skills to safely intervene as a bystander, contributing to establishing a safe and respectful work environment for all.
MARKETING MATERIALS FOR ONGOING AWARENESS AND REINFORCEMENT
We offer customized marketing materials to leverage across your organization to maintain awareness and reinforce customized curriculum content to prevent and maintain safe and respectful working environments. These graphics include recognizable and relatable scenarios customized for your workplace to incorporate into electronic bulletin boards, intranets, company and department newsletters and screen savers as examples. Contact us to learn more about customized marketing materials.
Consulting Services
We are engaged regularly to advise, evaluate and present to leading organizations on preventing and responding to workplace incivility, harassment, violence and discrimination. Consultations vary but may include reviewing and making recommendations on implementation plans underway or scheduled.
Contact us to discuss your goals.
PARTIAL LISTING OF CONSULTING WORK ON WORKPLACE SAFETY AND RESPECT
Below is just a partial listing of consulting services provided or of members of our team serving as a subject matter expert:
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) advising on applying bystander intervention strategies
Better Life Lab New America providing feedback on their toolkit #NowWhat: The Sexual Harassment Solutions Toolkit
Hollywood Commission presented at the Hollywood Commission IDEAS summit to explore incorporating bystander intervention to effect real and innovative change in the entertainment industry.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) providing testimony for their research on Sexual Harassment Climate, Culture and Consequences
American Association of Medical Colleges Leadership Forum presenting on using bystander intervention to end gender harassment in academic medicine
US Congressional Senate Committees and Task Force providing testimony on Military Sexual Trauma (MST) and sexual violence prevention.
Speaking
As subject matter experts on bystander intervention, our experts regularly speak to groups about a variety of topics related to effecting lasting, positive change in the workplace to offer a safe and respectful environment for all. If your organization is seeking a speaker or panel member, please contact us.
WHY SOTERIA SOLUTIONS TO EFFECT LASTING CHANGE AT WORK:
- Solutions customized to leverage your institution’s strengths, culture and values. This includes language and word choice in the customized solutions developed so the training and programs are easily relatable and relevant.
- Our solutions focus on your strengths; your protective factors as opposed to alternative approaches that emphasize the risk factors and problems. Our strengths based approach is grounded in positive psychology.
- A collaborative, flexible approach as we partner with you as a catalyst to ignite lasting change.
- Solutions for work based on leading research on bystander intervention.
- Sustainable change is achieved by improving organizational frameworks (e.g., goals, core values, reporting mechanisms, cultural norms) essential to making strategic shifts.
- Nationally recognized thought leader and subject matter expert recognized by the Harvard Business Review and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM).
Our Workplace Clients
We have extensive experience helping create and maintain safe and respectful work environments for businesses and federal and state agencies. Learn more about how we develop and support the implementation for such organizations.
