Our Signature Component of The Work Doctor Blueprint system

The Policy Writing Group designates a second group of employees to serve as experts in Workplace Bullying. That second group will name itself eventually. Its tentative title is the Expert Peers Team. Individuals chosen for that team must widely be recognized as empathic, good listeners, and with a reputation of standing up to abusive others. The EPT should be large enough to be representative of most levels of the organization and cut across disciplines.

The Expert Peers Training requires 3 days on-site.

The primary task for the EPT is to develop its expertise in how Workplace Bullying manifests itself and how it adversely impacts people and the organization. The EPT will serve as the primary information resource about bullying -- maintaining an intranet website, a library, and a directory of local resources. The members will be known throughout the organization as individuals who can provide safe, non-retaliatory consultations that can clarify and validate a questioning, uncertain colleague.

Depending on the organization's needs and the talents of EPT members, some will serve colleagues as coaches, some will become trainers, some will be fact finders assisting with policy violation complaints. Each EPT chooses which services to provide and how to deliver them.

Most important, the EPT will be the facilitators of restorative justice within the organization with respect to harm inflicted by workplace bullying. They become agents of healing rather than punishment.