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- 0:01Welcome to authentic living with Roxanne, a place where we have as conversations about
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- 0:11And now here's your host, Roxanne Derhodge.
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- 1:02Our interview last week was so good that we decided to turn it into a 2 part series.
- 1:07If you missed last week, you'll find the link in the show notes.
- 1:12It's not mandatory that you listen, but we wanna make sure that you don't miss out on this
- 1:17amazing conversation.
- 1:20Hi, everyone.
- 1:20It's Roxanne Durgesh.
- 1:21Thanks for tuning in again this week.
- 1:24Today, I have a special colleague that's I met through a friend in Cayman Islands, and it's
- 1:31it's talk.
- 1:31It's a funny thing about connections.
- 1:33So, hi Trina, so glad you could be here with us today.
- 1:36Oh, I'm excited to be here.
- 1:38And, Kim, if you're listening, this is happening because of you.
- 1:42Yeah.
- 1:43So, a treater is, has is in a a field that I think most of us would find very intriguing.
- 1:50I'll I'll just read a little bit about her bio, and we'll jump right in because we're gonna
- 1:54have such a fantastic conversation.
- 1:56Trina Realkoff is a conflict management and resiliency specialist.
- 2:00International author and the founder of TLR solutions for Conflict Inc.
- 2:06As a trauma informed mediator, psychological health and safety advisor, workplace, fairness,
- 2:11and restoration, analyst and the resiliency trail trainer and facilitator, her passion is
- 2:17to support leaders, organizations, and businesses to become the architects of their
- 2:22conflict resilient workplace.
- 2:25And what's the easiest cost effective way to make improvements in a business that have
- 2:31sometimes no cost is listening to what the employees want and need.
- 2:36So I recently did a workplace assessment, And what was interesting was through the
- 2:42assessment, and it was not just the survey, but then there was individual confidential focus
- 2:46groups and interviews was coming back to work, and it was a very high risk environment, that
- 2:54what employees really needed was was upper management, the CEO, the leaders to just come
- 3:01out of their office and do check ins, not do your your regular routine of where you have to
- 3:07go do the the walkthrough of different areas and check-in, but they wanted that authentic
- 3:13connection of just come out and just check-in and see how we're doing.
- 3:18Something that basic.
- 3:21So what you're saying is that a lot of since So this got, instituted by the government.
- 3:27Was this recently?
- 3:31How recently with the standards?
- 3:33With the psychological
- 3:35Yeah.
- 3:36Psychological health and safety national standards have been with Canada for 10 years.
- 3:41It was this year was their 10 year anniversary.
- 3:43Okay.
- 3:44Okay.
- 3:44But it's only recent because of mental health in the workplace about being that it's becoming
- 3:49recognized that there are psychosocial hazards, not just physical hazards, but psychosocial
- 3:56hazards.
- 3:57Right.
- 3:57Right.
- 3:58And like you're saying, if I, you know, you're thinking, well, I think it the solution is
- 4:03enough.
- 4:04And then you do what think you need to do.
- 4:07And if you don't get a baseline from an assessment, let's say with this robbery, and
- 4:13and what Amazing information they would get.
- 4:18Mhmm.
- 4:18Right?
- 4:19Because then this is an international company that has locations across Canada.
- 4:26And the impact is, let's say they do this on not very well.
- 4:32And it's a, you know, basically, you know, I think it's a 20 4 7 service.
- 4:38And let's say you do it poorly on one location, and that ripple effects.
- 4:43So other people working, say, the particular shift that your daughter was working or even
- 4:47just working off shift, or maybe not even off shift, Right?
- 4:52And you do it poorly, then what does that do?
- 4:54Like, do you set to retention, with people thinking, Well, I like what I do, but I don't
- 5:01wanna be held at that point.
- 5:03Yeah.
- 5:03And and it's reputation too.
- 5:05Right?
- 5:05Because Right.
- 5:06Absolutely.
- 5:06Getting on the business, the cost of reputation, you can't do a little formula for
- 5:12that if it's a major company.
- 5:14So it's like thinking, I always ask.
- 5:17So when you see your company in the news, do you want to see this company did not have
- 5:24anything proactively in place to mitigate physical and psychological risks due to a
- 5:31robbery.
- 5:32Or do you want to see in the news this company is ahead of the game?
- 5:38They are taking the lead in creating psychological health and safety in the
- 5:41workplace and ensuring their staff, employees, clients are safe, feel welcome, and we look
- 5:50after our staff and our clients.
- 5:53Right?
- 5:54So it's in that reputation.
- 5:56Yeah.
- 5:56That would just be a backdrop to that company versus, of a sudden, you know, you're realizing
- 6:02the Yep.
- 6:03And, you know, now we are our own media.
- 6:07Like, you have interaction.
- 6:08Somebody put something on social, and it doesn't get addressed.
- 6:12That's that's like, you know, wildfire where And that reputation, like you said, that you're
- 6:17like calling in people to mitigate the reputation that now has not it's kinda come out
- 6:22of the gate.
- 6:23I know you gotta pull it back.
- 6:25Right?
- 6:25So, yeah, and you do a cost comparison of, k, the cost to bring somebody in to mitigate the
- 6:31reputation now that's been tarnished, or somebody also through that event put in a
- 6:37workplace violence complaint that now has to be investigated so the cost of the investigation
- 6:43and what are the potential outcomes of it versus being proactive and should an event
- 6:49come, you've already recognized what are the psychosocial hazards, what are the risks, what
- 6:55is missing, what is working, and how to strengthen that, and then should an
- 6:59investigation come or a lawsuit, you already have the liability covered saying we've done
- 7:05this, this, this implemented, Yes.
- 7:08The event happened.
- 7:09This is the action we took because we were aware of proactive measures we needed to
- 7:13mitigate the psychosocial risk.
- 7:16Well, it's showing that you be preemptive.
- 7:18Right?
- 7:18Like, you know, unfortunately, and we know with 20 sevens, you know, it's like emergency rooms
- 7:23and and and first responders and 247 services more than likely, you know, you'd be getting
- 7:30concerns versus a 9 to 5 kind of, you know, IT firm that opens up at it and leaves it for.
- 7:36That's likely you're gonna have those types of things.
- 7:39So, again, based on your your your sector, you know, or even your size, like, when I, I
- 7:44remember that I, you know, this was a one case and normally as the executive, I wouldn't get
- 7:49involved, but this was a scenario.
- 7:52Major transportation can't say won't say.
- 7:56And what had happened was now I'm rarely because, of course, in in my role, sometimes I
- 8:02would have to be available for the West Coast, but not very often.
- 8:06So what happened was, this employee was seeing one of the clinicians.
- 8:12Now I was armed slanked.
- 8:13I would just find out once in a while what was going on.
- 8:16And there was a issue with anger management issue, right, potentially.
- 8:22So And, of course, there were we did assessments, you know, ongoing levels of
- 8:28assessments, and it was done.
- 8:30The clinicians did all did all their due diligence and whatever, and then it gets
- 8:36escalated to me because this particular person have threatened, that they did not know what
- 8:46they were going to do when they saw their supervisor.
- 8:52And their shift was starting at 5 o'clock the next day, next next morning.
- 8:57So, hence, I'm here and I'm escalating it up to the senior VP that I reported to.
- 9:03And we're like, okay.
- 9:04We we gotta do so of course, we did was necessary, which is our which is our due
- 9:08diligence, and we had that person taken care of before they entered the workplace.
- 9:14So it can get very, very technical, to your point, but if an employer does the things that
- 9:20you're suggesting, like, let's say something does happen, you know, then you're showing that
- 9:27you're saying, okay.
- 9:29We can't get rid of things happening.
- 9:31You are you know, we're in a world with lots of things going on.
- 9:35But if you ignore it to your point, conflict avoid it, then, you know, that everything seems
- 9:43good, but what goes underground.
- 9:46And that's where the historical unresolved conflict then starts potentially escalating to
- 9:53costs, to time, to internal conflict, again, to stress leave, disability leave retention,
- 10:01right, in unions, then you got grievances.
- 10:06Right.
- 10:06Absolutely.
- 10:07Investigations.
- 10:08Right?
- 10:08It's the unresolved conflict comes with a cost.
- 10:12So it's almost like we need a paradigm shift and just self reflection of become conflict
- 10:19curious because that's how we are proactive.
- 10:21That's how we put prevention in place to mitigate personal professional organizational
- 10:26operational risk, but that's the resiliency of learning from the past experience.
- 10:33So if we look look at the context of the bribery, it's like, hey.
- 10:36Here's the series of ants.
- 10:37Here's this is what we did.
- 10:39So what was missing?
- 10:41What are the gaps, the pain points?
- 10:43And then how do we fill them in for that next time?
- 10:46Because there will be a next robbery.
- 10:48Hopefully not, but more than likely, whether it's the one store or a different store in the
- 10:53same chain, there's gonna be another robbery.
- 10:55So how do we mitigated by reflecting on what we did right, what was needed or missing, and
- 11:03that's risk mitigation and resiliency operational organizational.
- 11:07And then the key is if it's a chain or a branch or larger organization, how do we communicate
- 11:13and share that information that's accessible, not just to leadership, but what does the
- 11:20frontline employee need to do?
- 11:22And they have easy access that they're educated on what is the safety net for them should
- 11:28something like this happen?
- 11:30And also, you know, one thing that we found, was they would do the, the debriefings and the
- 11:38diffusing.
- 11:39Right?
- 11:39So the diffusing is at 12 and 24 and the debriefings are within 72 to kind of because
- 11:44most of us could go back relatively to normal functioning unless we have something ready
- 11:48going on.
- 11:49What would happen with a lot of organizations, they wouldn't think of people that were off
- 11:55Mhmm.
- 11:55Or not on that shift.
- 11:57And what would happen is, there would be rumor milling around the facts.
- 12:03Right?
- 12:03And you, you know, again, it's like it's like that broke, you know, broke, you know, when
- 12:07you're a kid, you're playing broke until 11 times, a 100, and it would create a wildfire
- 12:12until you actually got people together within that 72 hours to completely discuss the facts
- 12:18and thinking, who's off on leave?
- 12:20Who's away on vacation.
- 12:22You know, all those things and making sure that everybody got the same communication.
- 12:27So that you're addressing, like you said, that what that wide net
- 12:32Yep.
- 12:32It is who's who's kinda at the time of the event and the time of the robbery, you know,
- 12:37who was about to come in, who didn't come in, who did you send home, those types of things
- 12:43because you're really thinking about like, to your point, your daughter had had some issues
- 12:47with bullying, let's say.
- 12:49So she learned some skill because her situation put, but other people that have maybe have
- 12:52never been through that they may might be coping completely differently.
- 12:56Right?
- 12:56Yeah.
- 12:57And, and that whole, like, the secondary, your potential to carry the what if, right?
- 13:01Because we're all human again.
- 13:02You can't help going to the what if.
- 13:04We all did it with COVID at the beginning.
- 13:06What if?
- 13:07What if?
- 13:07Right?
- 13:08Right.
- 13:08So
- 13:08if you're taking a business context, if you don't stop after a conflict and incident, you
- 13:14know, at adversity of an something happening stop and reflect on the learning and what
- 13:21worked, what didn't work, just associate the cost of the avoidance and the the retention.
- 13:28So as you gave the example, right, the the extended effect of everybody who wasn't there,
- 13:35how much time is spent lost in production when they come back to work, and everybody's whether
- 13:42you're online or in person or on the telephone, everybody's talking about it.
- 13:46There's probably a good 8 to 16 hours cumulative of the discussion of it because
- 13:52there's been no debriefing.
- 13:53So you take the individual salary for that day of every person involved, and then management
- 14:00and HR organization of potential debriefing or the time off now, it can be tens of 1000 of
- 14:07dollars, because of 3 active measures rather than creating a baseline of proactive
- 14:13preventative organizational and operational resilience management.
- 14:18You know what, that brings to a point?
- 14:20I'm thinking when I just went listening to you, Trina, that we think about, the economic times
- 14:26that we're in, right, and, and how fearful people are over and above coming off the the
- 14:33the the COVID kind of incident.
- 14:35Mhmm.
- 14:36And then, you know, some employers are saying you have to come back to work, and they're not,
- 14:40to your point, finding the, you know, I say what's litmus test tell you that they don't
- 14:45know that litmus test.
- 14:47Yep.
- 14:47And then you put people in together and you're not you're just thinking, well, you know,
- 14:51everybody's been called back to work blah blah blah.
- 14:54You gotta do it.
- 14:56So, really, in a way, it's almost like you know people have been traumatized.
- 15:01And you're, you know, and then you're thinking, I'm just gonna make them do certain things.
- 15:05Again, another loss of control.
- 15:07And then you're gonna come
- 15:08back and you're gonna be nice.
- 15:09Right?
- 15:09So what does that do to overall morale as well?
- 15:15You know, and then Yeah.
- 15:17What what did they do?
- 15:19Yeah.
- 15:19Right.
- 15:20The morale has deteriorated.
- 15:22I'm physically at work now, but My brain is somewhere else, and I'm feeling nauseous, but
- 15:27I'm at work, but they're not working.
- 15:29Right.
- 15:30Right.
- 15:31Being, you know, having those trauma informed communication from a sensitivity, just
- 15:36awareness, and that checking, that actual genuine checking, not the checkbox.
- 15:43You know, it's it's it's ready.
- 15:45And I think it's well, obviously, we know it's it starts at the top.
- 15:48Like, you know, in in my new book, I talk a little bit about, you know, the leadership
- 15:53model of I'm not being impacted, you know, is the autocratic kind of old guard of leadership.
- 16:00And I'm not suggesting that, you know, leaders share everything that's going through their
- 16:04life, but I talk a lot about them.
- 16:06Look.
- 16:06You're a person to your leader you're also having impact on your life.
- 16:11And if you look like nothing is affecting you and all your employees around you saying, Well,
- 16:17if Trina's not acting like anything's impacting her, therefore I then have to stay for what I
- 16:23am feeling.
- 16:24So I think that that that transparency around, yeah, this has been tough on all of us.
- 16:30I, you know, and sharing, like, you know, a little bit about not everything, but at least
- 16:35being able to say, I hear you.
- 16:38I feel what you're going through.
- 16:39I've been through maybe this in this way.
- 16:42That really allows people to to have that that capacity to open up a little bit to say, yeah,
- 16:48I can relate versus the leadership teams that say, Oh, what's wrong?
- 16:52Oh, I'm just losing a limb.
- 16:53Everything's fine.
- 16:54You know, just just being able to connect with people just on a human level as well.
- 16:58Yeah.
- 16:59And that context, it could even be, you know, the experience of COVID or, like, first time I
- 17:04know for myself, when the gyms opened up, I was excited.
- 17:07I go to the gym, hope it's there.
- 17:09You had to register, and I'm supposed I remember I'm sitting right here, and I'm
- 17:13supposed to go to gym in an hour.
- 17:14And then all of a sudden, I'm feeling nauseous and my stomach's tightening up.
- 17:19Positively, I know I'm okay.
- 17:20The gym's opened up.
- 17:21We got the okay.
- 17:22There's protocol.
- 17:24But my body was having that trauma response because of the unsafeness that we were told for
- 17:29so long that the whole world experienced, right?
- 17:32So when the whole world and we're all human have experienced this, we've all come out
- 17:37somehow so it's even looking organizationally professionally, how have you individually,
- 17:44professionally, and in your business resiliently bounced back and are going forward
- 17:50because we have come out of it.
- 17:51We're still working, but can you name the traits the examples, the environmental context,
- 17:58of how you got through it.
- 18:00Mhmm.
- 18:01Right.
- 18:01And it's and it's that leadership of you know, the humanality, I like to call it, you're
- 18:05moving from SOS to SRSR.
- 18:09Self reflection strengthens resiliency.
- 18:11And whether it's personal, professional, organizational, or operational, there's a
- 18:16tornado.
- 18:17There's environmental resiliency.
- 18:18There's business contingency plans that are resilient.
- 18:21That's what resiliency is.
- 18:23We take the negative stuff we've experienced and how we coped and managed and worked through
- 18:30it, for the next time stronger and better.
- 18:34I like that because and I think, you know, we think of a we we talk a lot about it
- 18:39organizationally, but I think just reflecting on it, right, our homes became our workplaces.
- 18:46And, you know, And then, you know, whatever you you're doing personally, it's gonna be a
- 18:51reflection of what you do, organizationally, and then also societal.
- 18:56So really, you know, what you're doing impacts.
- 18:59I also see, you know, a ten ten foot radius around you.
- 19:02Yeah.
- 19:03So lady kind of being responsible when you're in leadership to say what responsibility do I
- 19:08need to take?
- 19:09And what are my blind spots?
- 19:11And How am I taking that time to be aware?
- 19:14If if I'm not an anxious person to begin with, but I'm kind of, you know, I had some some
- 19:20friends that were very, very anxious.
- 19:21And at first, I went, and then I thought, no, stop.
- 19:24Right?
- 19:25The we're like that even pre COVID.
- 19:28So, obviously, in COVID, you know, I had one of my best friends, you know, I I she brought me
- 19:34flowers through COVID, and she was backing up as I was coming to I'm like, I'm not getting
- 19:39close to you.
- 19:40You're not gonna hug you.
- 19:42I want to hug you, but I can't.
- 19:44Right.
- 19:45Exactly.
- 19:45To to really kind of reflect on your space and say, what am I about?
- 19:49But then in turn, what do I know of others?
- 19:51And then how can I look at my space and how I'm in others?
- 19:55So I think that's the gift, like you said, right, like reflection, understanding and then
- 20:01kind of thinking of that overall.
- 20:02Now I know we're almost at time, and I probably kept you longer than I should, treat up for
- 20:08meters that are out there and they're saying, well, we've done some stuff.
- 20:13You know, we've probably not too bad, but our short term's gone up and those, you know,
- 20:18arbitrations with the unions are kinda peeking up where where should they give them some
- 20:25things that or steps that they should be reflecting on, and then then I'd also like you
- 20:30to share where they can get ahold of you if they want to do some more work.
- 20:34A good a good example would just be to as an organization or company is take a 6 month time
- 20:42frame of where we were right after COVID open to where you are now and calculate the costs.
- 20:49Right?
- 20:49I I do have a a cost effective, and there are pre ones online, to assess the cost of
- 20:54conflict.
- 20:55So what is your retention?
- 20:56What is the sickly disability hiring?
- 20:59Right?
- 21:00What does that look like when COVID first opened up to now because you need to see the
- 21:07time, the money, what's missing to have that investment to actually wanna be proactive.
- 21:13Because what is it gonna cost you if you can't find somebody to come work for you?
- 21:18Or the reputation is we came to work, but we quit because There's unresolved bullying and
- 21:23harassment going on, and it's visible, and word-of-mouth is powerful, and especially with
- 21:27media.
- 21:29So it's kinda looking at your retention.
- 21:31You're hiring.
- 21:32Your retirements.
- 21:33Your sick leave disability.
- 21:34What are those numbers at right now?
- 21:37And envisioning what is that headline in the media.
- 21:41What do you want that to be?
- 21:43Because under in Ontario, and cross federally, workplace violence and harassment, by law, you
- 21:50need to have a workplace assessment now.
- 21:53So what if that one complaint goes in and you haven't had that assessment?
- 22:00And it's been over a year since it's in been in, in place, the new labor code law, what is
- 22:06the liability gonna look like when an investigation comes in?
- 22:11Yeah.
- 22:12So we need to think it through and see.
- 22:14Yeah.
- 22:15Where where where is my kind of scorecard?
- 22:17And if you've been lucky enough to not have anything happen, that's fantastic.
- 22:22Yeah.
- 22:22But like anything else, we, you know, things happen in different work environment.
- 22:26And some in work environments, you may not think I have to be concerned and you never
- 22:30know.
- 22:30Right?
- 22:31And but it's I think it's every work environment because we're human, right, and
- 22:35human behavior conflict is arise, and sometimes our interpersonal lives intermingle into the
- 22:41workplace.
- 22:42So even in the context of are your policies up to date, regarding cannabis, right, medicinal
- 22:49cannabis in the workplace, recreational, because more and more people are seeking
- 22:54medicinal cannabis alternative to pharmaceutical.
- 22:58There's new in Ontario, the labor code law for family violence.
- 23:01You need to have a policy and process in place that all your employees know Should somebody be
- 23:06experiencing family violence?
- 23:09So mad imagine the litigation and the risk in the investigation should somebody experienced
- 23:14family violence and, you know, god forbid assaulted or injured severely that may cause
- 23:22death, and you didn't have a policy or procedure in place, or were even aware that
- 23:27that's now mandated into the labor code law.
- 23:31Yes.
- 23:31Right.
- 23:32Psychological protection is just organizations educating their employees of what we have to
- 23:39protect you.
- 23:40There's no cost to that.
- 23:42Absolutely.
- 23:44Well, this has been amazing, and I'd like you to share with people, I'm sure there's people
- 23:51around there who are kind of checking the boxes and saying, oh, no.
- 23:53I I have to go with care.
- 23:54I have to do this.
- 23:56Yeah.
- 23:56So if people were wanting, to reach out and to consult or even do some work with your Trina,
- 24:01where where would they get a hold of you?
- 24:04I am on LinkedIn.
- 24:05Under Trina Rockoff TLR solutions for conflict inc, or my website is TLR solutions for
- 24:10conflict inc.
- 24:11So you can email me, text may call me, even if you just want a discovery call to understand
- 24:17it, and I can share with you a picture of even what the assess would look like because I'm a
- 24:22visual learner.
- 24:23So I like pictures.
- 24:24I like colors.
- 24:25So when I can see metrics with yellow to red and percentages in numbers, it gives a bigger
- 24:31picture, and it provides me more clarity.
- 24:34So sometimes, you know, just a discovery call because become conflict, curious, because it
- 24:39will have a on investment, and it will also have a return on your relationships.
- 24:44Awesome.
- 24:45Well, everyone, what what am I taking away?
- 24:47You know, I always learn so much every time I have some electronic on.
- 24:52I guess, you know, what I'm recognizing is, you know, what responsibility as leaders that
- 24:59people have to consider about the the bounce back effect of people coming back to work or
- 25:05being back at work.
- 25:06And if you don't know and you haven't looked at your numbers and you haven't kind of pulled
- 25:11that together, that's probably a a good thing to at your next, you know, health health and
- 25:17wellness strategy meeting.
- 25:19Just look at your numbers.
- 25:20What's your short term?
- 25:21What's your long term?
- 25:22What's your incidental absences?
- 25:24What's your kind of your level of productivity or presenteeism?
- 25:28Or absenteeism, like they say, I'm at work, but I'm only producing at about, say, 65%.
- 25:34Look at those numbers and then, like Trina said, what is the average wage and what is the
- 25:38loss that you could probably calculate?
- 25:40And what I'll ask Trina to do is to maybe, put a link in the show notes that you can probably
- 25:47do a basic one.
- 25:48And if you need more information, you can connect with her.
- 25:51So for my world, I am launching my book, June 10th here in Niagara and Internationally, in on
- 25:59June 27th, for anyone wanting to, learn more about authentic card leadership and some of the
- 26:05things we're talking about today, please go to roxanderhodge.com Derhodge slash book.
- 26:10You can pre order your book.
- 26:12And, you know, I hope that, I can connect with a lot of you at the launches that are
- 26:17happening.
- 26:18Again, Trina, thanks so much for your time.
- 26:20And for everyone, thanks for hanging out with us.
- 26:22We'll look forward to chatting with you again next week.
- 26:24Thank you.
- 26:25Take care.
- 26:26Thanks for tuning in to authentic living with Roxanne, creating the space for positive
- 26:32healthy change.
- 26:33Roxanne is a keynote speaker, psychotherapist, and coach to work with Roxanne, visit
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